Orthography

What does literature offer an individual? I believe that Literature is a very important part of each individual person. It is the building block to all reading and writing skills and helps develop critical thinking skills from a young age. Literature helps us unlock a world that we may not have access to otherwise, it helps us understand different cultures, art, and even history. How has the importance of reading changed from earlier eras (pre-digital/audio/visual media) to our present day? Do…

SIOP Instructional Unit Plan Lesson Plan 1 Thematic Topic: Spring Grade/Class/Subject: 2nd Grade, Science, Blue Jays Standards: GENERAL STANDARD 8: Understanding a Text 8.7 Retell a story’s beginning, middle, and end. LESSON PREPARATION Content Objective(s): Students will be able to… · Read/listen to Blue Jays book · Identify animals and nature · Identify characteristics of spring Language Objective(s): Students will be able to… · Summarize the book · Describe life in spring · Find rhymes…

According to this measure, Gianna’s Academic Skills Battery (ASB) – a measure of overall academic achievement in reading, writing, and math – fell within the Below Average range (SS=85), with her performance being above 16% of same-age peers. Reading The Reading Composite is a measure of Gianna’s overall reading skills, which are based on basic word reading, word decoding, and reading comprehension. Gianna’s performance in this composite was in the Below Average range (SS=89; PR=23). The…

Nealy was excited to start QRI Reading Assessment. However, before starting the reading assessment her word identification level needed to be determined. Nealy started from the very beginning with the pre-primer 1, pre-primer 2 & primer. She read those words without skipping a beat. Next, she read the first level words. Her level of automatic was independent, 90% and her total level percent was independent, 100%. Her confidence continued into the second level words. However, her level of…

MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN When I was a little kid, if we got in bed quickly, my mom would read my brothers and I a part of a book as we went to bed. Books like The Great Brain, Call of the Wild, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Enormous Egg, and, yes, My Side of the Mountain. It has been a long time since hearing the book read, so at first I wasn’t even going to read it. I had read the list and was going to read Huckleberry Finn, but by brother suggested I read My Side of the Mountain instead.…

How Does the Brain of a Dyslexic Person Function in Contrast to the Brain of a Non-Dyslexic Person? What is dyslexia? This question seems to be on repeat in my family’s conversations. Right now, my family is in the process of finding out if my seven year old sister has dyslexia. She has been to reading tutors and doctors but we cannot seem to figure out why she is struggling so much with reading. She is currently taking tests to determine if she has dyslexia. Since I am her overprotective sister…

Phonics strategies Phonics is the method of teaching a person to read by putting sounds with letters or a group of sounds from the alphabet together. Phonics has many strategies to help students with literacy in the classroom. The following three phonics strategies will form the foundation that students need to read and communicate properly. Those strategies are letter blending, word sort, and alphabet matching. Letter Blending Letter blending is the skill combining sounds together…

What is phonemic awareness? According to Begin to Read Authors, it is “the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes—in spoken words.” Phonemic awareness is often mistaken for phonics; the way readers connect the sound of words to the letters of the words. Phonemic awareness is extremely important for students to learn at a young age because it helps them learn how to spell. It is also important for beginner readers since it helps improve their comprehension and…

Literacy, on a superficial level, is perceived simply as the ability to sound out words or an over-emphasis on phonics. However, literacy is more complex than the act of oral reading. A balanced literacy program places an emphasis not only on the development of phonemic awareness, but also on language development which includes both oral and written language. It is for this reason that leaders and researchers in the field of literacy, such as Lucy Calkins, advocate that effective balanced…

The children’s picture book ‘A Home for a Bilby’ is written by Joanne Crawford and illustrated by Aboriginal artist Grace Fielding. The first attraction to ‘A Home for Bilby’ arises when viewing the striking cover. Fielding has illustrated a screen-printed image of a gathering of dot-painted Australian animals. The uniqueness of the cover and feature of native Australian animals will intrigue young children to follow shy Bilby on her journey to a new home. Mallett (2015) suggests that text and…