Comprehension Essay

respond by drawing a picture, gesturing, or select words from a word/picture bank to place within the storyboard to demonstrate understating. This strategy allows them to an opportunity to generate and sequence ideas for writing which demonstrates comprehension (Linguistic Scaffolding, 2009, p.

Katie has made considerable improvement from the first session. She has admitted she does not like to read, but continues to do so with enthusiasm. She is putting forth effort in using guiding questions to look for key details, and has a purpose for reading. She has a good grasp on vocabulary and high frequency words. When reading “Island of the Blue Dolphins” there are many unfamiliar words and Katie sounds them out and uses surrounding words to help her pronounce an understand the meaning. Katie

As a reading specialist/literacy coach it is your job to present resources and research to the teachers at your school. After viewing this video on text complexity, I feel more knowledgeable on my comprehension of text complexity and its relationship to producing reading measures for our students. In the video, text complexity was broken up into three parts. The parts were as follows; qualitative, quantitative, and reader and task. Qualitative as define by Zombro (2012) is calculated by the teachers

WHAT: Instructional Sequence: (with time increments, and materials needed) • Introduction (10-12 minutes): opening of lesson—the hook questions, ideas To introduce the reading comprehension strategy “cause and effect,” I will be telling the students a verbal scenario about my weekend such as, “my aunt came to visit on Saturday so I didn’t get a lot of my homework done that day.” The students will be asked “why didn’t I get my homework done”, and hopefully explain that “”my aunt visiting” was the

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to notice, think about, and work with individual sounds in words (Phonemic Awareness, 2015). Often phonemic awareness is said to be the same thing as phonics, however they are completely different. Phonics is the understanding that there is a relationship between letters and sounds through written language; but phonemic awareness is the understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words (Phonemic Awareness, 2015). Phonemic Awareness plays

Daniel is a five years old male student at Desert Springs Preparatory Elementary School, in the SunKids preschool program, this is his second year with us. Daniel, since a month ago, had an IEP for social, and speech and OT as a related service. He identifies with Asian/American ethnic category and speaks only English, which is the language spoken at home. He was on a daily behavioral intervention based on a thumbs up/down checklist, and the OT and Speech specialists were coming once or twice a week

Against the downturn in American literary compassion which encompasses the reading industry in a negative fashion, in his article "Why literature matters", Dana Gioia has depicted reading as a core asset in any intellect-based society or civic spheres. By lending his American readers' ears on the claims voiced by prominent figures, the author aims to show young readers how their growing dislike toward literature will ensure future occupational hardships and poor social engagement. The article starts

During the pre-assessment, the students were given the myth of Icarus and his wings. We were assessing the students’ ability to perform three important reading comprehension and literacy skills. These included identifying the main idea of a text, making connections from the text to their own personal lives and experiences, and finally, to draw inferences from the text. We collaborated with our cooperating teacher, Ms. Aviles, in order to design lessons that addressed the students’ needs and were

Researching Diversity Jodi Marver American College of Education Introduction In my last paper, I discussed the achievement gaps within the low-income African American community at Steele School in Galesburg, IL. Now that I have looked into the history of low-income African American students, I am now going to research even more by exploring trends, issues, evidence-based remediation practices, the preferred learning styles and the identified achievement gap of low-income

Calum Arthur Amundson was born September 1st, 2016 at 8:13 in the morning at the Central Cass Library Hospital. After a total of eight hours of labor, which caused Calum to become distressed, the doctors decided to do a C-section taking only ten minutes. One minute after birth, the Apgar test was presented to him; he scored a seven, but when the test was done again at five minutes, he scored an eight. Proceeding on through his first hours of life, I made the decision that he shall be breastfed; thankfully