Student Reading On Reading And Comprehension

One of the first steps in helping a struggling reader is to be able to reach out and assist the areas where they are lacking. One way a teacher can assist is to help the students discover and set reading goals for themselves. Having a reading goal can help the students have a purpose for reading. Some students may need motivation and a reason to read if the ease of reading isn’t there for them. Having a goal may help these students feel the sense of reading has a purpose. Trying new procedures and having organizational strategies can be beneficial to teachers when helping students achieve their reading goals. Michael Opitz and Michael Ford have found organizational strategies to be successful when implemented in the classroom as part of the reading strategy. According to Michael Opitz and Michael Ford, “when teachers are able to expand the way they think and use Guided Reading it will help the students become more successful at reading.” (Hillman, 2002). The concerns from Opitz and Ford are as follows: 1. Roles and Goals; 2. Assessment and Grouping; 3. Texts; 4. Instruction; and 5. Organization and Management.”

I found the ideas that were most important to me, in Task #2 (Implications for Reading Instruction). I feel that these ideas are important to me, because I am planning to become a 5th grade English teacher. These ideas provided me with an outline of my duties as a teacher, regardless of what subject I will be teaching. I understand that not all of these ideas will work for every subject, but the majority of them will. I plan to use these ideas to plan fun interactive lesson plans for my students to engage in. As a teacher, my job will be to encourage student participation in classroom activities and promote an increase in knowledge through reading, writing, and spelling assignments. Therefore, the following ideas will be used to get the results that I am expecting to receive within my classroom from my students.

Literacy has a huge impact over how students present themselves in an academic environment. The utensils to effectively read, write and critically think are skill that not only help a person in a school setting, but also in today’s society. Through positive experience with academic literacy, people do not only learn to enhance their reading and writing capability, but they will also be able to apply this to their learning development in different subject areas. Creating an exciting environment for student to take part in and become more comfortable with their peers and teachers is an effective way to aid students. Teachers have a huge impact on how students will learn and apply their academic literacy. Literacy also provides students with

Reading Comprehension and Response to Literature Questions Chapters 1-2 Directions Answer all the questions below. Dont forget to answer all of the parts of each question too. Restate the question in your answer. Dont forget to cite evidence from the novel to support your answer. Anthropomorphism characterization What human characteristics (other than the ability to speak English) does Orwell give to each of the following characters CharacterHuman Characteristics and Personality TraitsOld Major Boxer Mollie Benjamin Snowball Napoleon Exposition setting up what the characters want (characters motives) and the potential conflict-- Old Major and his dream a. Why is Old Major so respected What is Old Majors vision for the

According to the graphs my reading rate has significantly, decreased from 111 words per minute to 78 words per minute. I have implemented the following strategies to try to improve my reading rate when it comes to reading. Then, my comprehension has also decreased went from 100% to 88%. I have also implemented the following strategies to improve my comprehension as well.

After looking into the statistics and reading there is a serious issue regarding students’ literacy level. Students cannot read or even if they can read they don't understand what they have read. They do not know strategies such as annotating or reading to answer an essay question.

While reading Kylene Beer's text, I was struck when she stated, “ These students who struggle with reading know they struggle with reading; they know that they lack the single most important tool for success in school-- the ability to to read and make sense of texts” (6). I agree with her when she mentions that they act as if reading doesn't matter. I have encountered many past classmates that struggled with reading, and they had an indifferent attitude in the classroom. Therefore, they appeared disengaged and disconnected from the lesson. For example, I remember when a girl admitted to me that she didn't read the assigned text because she didn't understand the context. At the time, I thought that was simply an excuse to avoid reading. However,

Reading is a crucial problem-solving process children develop through early years of life and begin to refine in primary school (Van Keer, 2004). To gain literacy competency educators aim to effectively teach their students how to decode print and how to comprehend the texts they read (Departments of Education, Science and Training [DEST], 2005). Through systematic and explicit reading instruction students are taught with a precise skill based learning experience that provides them with direct and ambiguous demonstrations of the skills they require to read and how to successfully use them in their reading (Van Keer, 2004). The process of reading is a systematic process that must address the following five essential skills, which are building

Language, where your imagination finds words to share it with the world! Sunny loves working on activities in this area to enhance her reading and writing skills. She is fluent in reading simple phonetic words and has just begun to start reading primary phonics series books to practice her sentence reading skill. It was quite impressive to see how quickly she got the concept of word building using movable alphabet. In this lesson, we have objects or pictures and the student has to make word to match these objects/pictures using movable alphabet. Sunny often chooses to note down the words she has created on a paper to practice her handwriting skill as well.

The author explores why students struggle through reading? What are the challenges educators faces to meet the needs of all students while having a diverse classroom of learners? What causes some students to struggle with reading and what instruction practices can be use that are effective and successful? All teachers of all grade levels should promote literacy development. Teachers need to make readers “21st Century Readers” meaning students should be taught literacy skills to navigate in the classroom as well in the future. The author referred to the struggling reader as the “delayed reader.” As stated by author struggling readers attempt to make effort to read whereas delayed readers postpone learning to read. There are strategies mentioned

Strategies of improving prosody in order to increase reading comprehension has been a concept in which I have been struggling with in order to better assist my first grade students. I began this process thinking that I needed to have the students look at the punctuation and text features within the text, as well as the pictures to better assist them with their understanding of the text. I feel as though many students rush to complete the readings quickly without an understanding of the words that are being read. I have begun to realize that the students are familiar with testing for the rate of fluency so often that I need to address other reasons for reading and the strategies that should be implemented before they begin reading the text. While I understand the importance of reading with automaticity and the skill development involved with addressing punctuation, reading with expression and meaning should also be a focus of reading development. During my research, I realized the topic of prosody needs to be clearly defined, although its importance to reading comprehension is unclear. I have also come to the realization that the methods I am implementing within the classroom are consistent with current literacy research. This research includes both traditional and new literacy methods.

To simplify the activity, the students will read their reactions to the statements after the read the statements. The other group members will share their reactions to the statements and then move onto to the next student’s statement. After the students have discussed in small groups, each group will share their group 's most important ideas with the class and there will be a class discussion.

As the learner I would take in as much information, suggestions and knowledge that my classmates have to offer. In a community of learners people have a variety of values, backgrounds and beliefs that can give them a different view on certain topics. As the learner I would take the time to engage in every avenue that is an available to me. That would include group work, group discussions, individual studying, and other offered extracurricular activities. I will show that I am a team player, listen to what the other opinions may be. I would study and use my time management skills to balance out my school, work, and home life. I would understand that learning is a life experience and value and knowledge that I accumulate during my time at the University of Dayton.

This will help my students sharing their knowledge with me and vice versa. Moreover, I will let my students explain their points and views about any topic to me first and then to their classmates. Furthermore, I will try to make the teaching and learning process more joyful and flexible so my students would love attending my classes so they are not going to be absent as long as I'm teaching them. Add to that, if they loved a class they are going to do their best in order to get more knowledge about that specific subject. This might help my students achieving high marks in other courses as

After the survey was over, Lucy was walked back to the class where she laid down and began to read a book right away.