Speed reading

Sight Word Acquisition Taylor L. Gaines Pace University Teaching Sight Words to Increase Reading Ability Reading abilities, decoding and reading comprehension skills are imperative to academic success. During the early stages of teaching students to read, a common practice is to employ the use of sight words. Worsham (2001) defines sight words as the most frequently used words in the English language that readers automatically recognize without having to use pictures

possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things” (Jean Piaget). Before one ever starts attending school, their very first lesson is to become literate in the language they speak. From reading sentences to reading paragraphs to reading novels, we try to achieve literacy. However, some of the greatest public speakers and writers did not achieve it through the way most people did. This is shown in the literary works of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Sherman

will to lead to a permanent improvement in reading skill. MATERIALS: TEACHER MATERIALS NEEDED: IPad (for the assessment these will be provided by the school/ guided practice), answer key for Venn diagram (so I can give the students feedback) SMART Board (to show videos/modeling), videos (for read aloud) and The Three Little Pigs by John Lewis and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka (books that the student will refer to and be reading). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWGQ-_ipBY

did not match the written word or was omitted, it was scored as incorrect even if self-correction occurred. If a word was inserted while reading a passage, it was ignored for scoring purposes. At the beginning of a reading passage, a timer was set for one minute to measure the duration of the reading. After one minute, the participants were asked to stop reading and a fluency rate (WCPM) was calculated. The design for this research was a multiple baseline design. All participants started on

The literacy crisis is a very prevalent issue in the United States of America. Many Americans are not proficient in basic skills, such as reading and writing. Sara Gilgore, a writer for Education Week, interviews two early learning experts, Lisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine. Guernsey states that, “more than two-thirds of American 4th graders are not reading at grade level in this country” (Gilgore). It is important for children at young ages to start building basic literacy skills because as children

Abstract Intergenerational literacy refers to the cycle of low literacy that exists in families. This paper will examine intergenerational illiteracy and programs that increase family literacy while decreasing high school dropout. To answer the question; Does intergenerational illiteracy affect educational achievement and what can be done to decrease intergenerational illiteracy and increase literacy education levels? This paper will analyze research that shows the connection between parental literacy

and rather they should follow their heart, find the beauty, and become one with nature. Each and every one of us has a place on this earth, and although we all go through times of despair, the sun keeps shining and the earth keeps turning. When reading “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver, I imagine the speaker being someone who has been through some dark and hard times. I imagine them as someone who has had to “walk on their knees” for a very long time but has come out of it a stronger person, more in tune

students questions, about gardening and plants,before you read aloud a book about gardens to them. Instead of having the students answer the questions right away, have them think about these questions while you read aloud the book. After you finish reading

are noticing it in other content areas. I fluently read the story stopping to make sure students pointed their story element. I would use inflection when I reached story element like Fairy Mom to emphasis the key words. This was important to the reading because not all the elements were exactly the same as most story, for example fairy godmother was called fairy mom and instead of once upon a time it reads “Once there was a little duck”. These slight changes in word choice made it difficult for the

questions before reading the passage. For the first question, he just said, I don’t know. I feel like he knew what to say; he just didn’t want to answer the question or say what he was thinking. The other two questions he answered and got the highest score for each of those, so he scored a 6 out of 9, or a 66 and 2/3%. He then read the passage, Just Like Mom, to me. There were 45 total words in the passage, and he was able to read all of them correctly. I timed him as he was reading, and it took him