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Jodee, Liz’s mother, worked hard mapping out Liz’s strengths in order to teach her best. She discovered that auditory learning worked best with Liz and she strived to find new methods for teaching Liz literacy skills. Together Liz and her

Amber Wiltse’s literacy narrative begins with “How do you go from this… to this” (Wiltse 645). This beginning is effective in getting the reader's attention, along with conveying the author's message. Her combination of narrative writing and photographic visuals illustrates the way that literacy has influenced who she is today. Amber starts with a picture of her when she is a baby and then places a picture of her as a senior, she parallels the following caption with these photos “How Do You Go from this… to this? The answer is literacy” (Witse 645-646). This example shows how literacy has influenced her life, and helped her to mature, and grow into the women she was when she wrote her narrative. The photo of Amber’s brother and her embracing

The community that my group members and I decided to chose for our project was the Native American student population on campus. The experience that I felt pushed me the most out of my comfort zone was the "Water is Life" discussion that they hosted on campus on February 21st. For this discussion they brought two speakers to campus, Angela Mooney D`Arcy and Ziad Abbas, to speak about the intersectionality between what the Native American community is doing for the water crisis in America and what the Palestinian community is doing in Gaza.

Many people are self-centered, it's part of who they are. This is seen every day in the modern world, a lot of people only care about themselves. David Foster Wallace is an author of many short stories. 'This is Water' is arguably the best and strongest story he has ever written. "This is Water" was a commencement speech given at Kenyon College. This speech/short story, whatever you want to call it, provides many examples as to how life is not perceived as it should be.

My love affair with water began at the tender young age of seven. I became a mermaid the second I hit the water no one could stop me, except for the dazzling green sea turtle that dared me to follow.

There are six major stages of reading development; emergent literacy (six months old to six years old), initial reading and decoding (six years old to seven years old), confirmation and fluency (seven years old to eight years old), reading for learning the new (nine years old to thirteen years old), multiple viewpoints (fifteen years old to seventeen years old), and construction and reconstruction (eighteen years old and up) (Evans, 2014). Although all children develop at deferent paces, most of children’s development occurs in the first five to eight years of their life. In these beginning years, they go through the emergent literacy stage, initial reading and decoding stage, and the confirmation and fluency stage.

Since each reading component builds on each other, it is imperative that I take advantage of young readers’ listening and competency skills to boost their vocabulary development. While reading aloud isn’t enough to improve vocabulary, but having teacher-student discussion about the passage, story, or book can improve both comprehension and vocabulary. I will implement this strategy to assist students in understanding new words and what they mean by providing student-friendly definitions, discussing the word in the text of the story, and relate the word to situation that the students are familiar with. Therefore, by using some of the examples given in the booklet, it will benefit me not only in the long run, but now as I spend the next few weeks tutoring my struggling reader. I will be able to break down the words he is struggling with and introduce new vocabulary words as we read different passages and discuss the words in the text. Putting emphasis on intervention to prevent further failure in reading while focusing on the end results that promotes independent reading is definitely a high priority. Each component is broken down to a level that allows me to fully understand that each component is connected to each

As a child, reading was always something I loved to do. I started reading at an early age. I went to preschool for two years, so I had an advantage when it came to reading. Once I’d gotten into elementary school, I excelled tremendously in that area. Sitting in my kindergarten class, I’d love to hear Mrs. Reed say, “Alright my shining stars get on the magic carpet for reading time.” It was the highlight of my day, every day. Who would’ve known that something as simple as reading would be so beneficial to me later in life? Reading became one of my saving graces, as I got older.

Starting Early by Susan Percy is an article that details the importance of building a strong literary foundation for children beginning as soon as possible. “Early childhood experience has a huge effect on your life later on”(Percy, 2014, p. 1), so it is vital to immerse children in a learning-rich environment. Emergent Literacy, also known as early literacy, “is a concept that supports learning to read in a positive home environment where children are in the process of becoming literate from birth” (Vacca, et al., 2015, p. 114). This concept works under the assumption that all children are constantly being engaged in reading and writing and that everyone is born with the ability and capability of learning how to read.

“Reading is a major strand of literacy, and an interactive process between the reader, text, and context. It is the platform on which the other strands of literacy are built. Reading involves knowledge of the structure of language, the purpose for

When a reader looks upon a beautifully designed page, she is drawn, almost without even thinking about it, to read the words. She takes

Ever since I was a small first grader, reading was something that was never my favorite thing in the world. Sure, I would sit with the rest of the class on the carpet and listen to my first grade teacher read a story, but I’d always look forward to it being over. For a while, reading was a subject that I respected, but I never had a desire for it. The journey I’ve made from sitting on that rug with my first-grade class to now is something that I’m really proud of, and I’m proud of my understanding of literacy as well.

"Taylor why can't you read this. This is so easy," I remember my younger sister Ashley saying to me. My path to literacy started in Kindergarten when I struggled to learn how to read. We had just moved from Kennewick, WA to Denver, CO a couple weeks before my first day of kindergarten. I had always been into playing school with my two sisters and pretending I was the nerd that knew everything when it came to reading and math. The real shock came to me when I started Kindergarten and everyone could read but me. I felt stupid. I would come home and try and do my reading homework with my mom and my three year old sister could read things that I couldn’t. I tried my absolute hardest at school and I just couldn't read. I could do everything else such as adding and subtracting and could even writing my name 26 times in a minute but it felt impossible for me to be able to read.

Ever since I was a tiny first grader, reading was something that was never my favorite thing in the world. Sure, I would sit with the rest of the class on the carpet and listen to my first grade teacher read a story, but I’d always look forward to it being over. For a while, reading was a subject that I respected, but I never had a desire for it. The journey I’ve made from sitting on that rug with my first-grade class to now is something that I’m really proud of, and that journey is remarkable to look back on.

English was not my first language, so the first thing that reading has overseen in me was both literal and metaphorical learning. My mom likes to remind me that being read-to encompassed my first encounters with English. From hearing about Little Critter at home to frequently attending both Round Rock Public Library’s and Kaleidoscope Kids’ storytimes, my small brain began to process the foreign language. With this exposure also came subconscious nurturing, with tellings from Aesop’s Fables and The Beginner’s Bible being the recurring bedtime stories. As I started school and began to consciously understand English, reading became an activity and tool to keep my mind up and running