Reading

education staff. She is the author of the article “Reading Aloud with Children of All Ages”. In her article, she illustrates the importance of reading aloud to and with children of various age groups. Furthermore, she explains the benefits of doing so for example, it teaches children the value of books and reading, motivates children as readers, expands and increases their vocabulary, as well as their attention span. The article also discusses how reading aloud to children awards them with…

The first component of a balanced literacy approach is reading. Learning to read is one of the most important skills children develop through their many years of schooling. According to Tompkins, to meet this component of a balanced approach, ELA curriculum needs to incorporate “modeled, shared, interactive, guided, and independent” reading experiences for students. (Tompkins 20) All of these aspects, and methods, of teaching reading are used in my placement. Each afternoon in my placement…

and Mr. Brown would always send me home with reading assignments. I remember the long dreadful nights struggling to read a different Dr. Seuss book every night. My mother is the one who taught me how to read. If it was not for her long hours of dedication to help me succeed, I would not be as proficient with reading as I am today. My mother is the kind of person who will push you to your full potential. I revived reading assignment daily. With each reading assignment I knew it would be a long…

friend’s children were already reading. She would tell you that I had not a sight word in my wheelhouse. That summer my parents dutifully drove me to and from my soon to be first grade teacher’s house as she devotedly practiced sounding out words and recognizing letters with me. Of course, eventually a light bulb went off in my five year old brain and I could read. Looking back, it seems silly that my parents were so worried about my reading, or more accurately, non-reading. I was young for my…

technological and print-dominated world where reading is more and more an essential skill. Reading – constructing meaning and making sense of the written text – becomes really important as they grow older since they have to know how to do it, for instance, in order to pass their school examinations, read letters/e-mails and do some research/look for online information. All in all, I believe children should have all the possible opportunities to develop their Reading skills as I see it as a vital…

An effective reading teacher uses different strategies to engage the readers. The teacher integrates the reading, writing, and other language activities and carries out a language arts program. Students are individually, culturally and linguistically different from each other, and they learn reading in different ways. Developing fluency is a goal of a balanced literacy program. Silent reading for comprehension help students remember that reading is first and think the words in their minds.…

Each and every person conceptualizes reading in a different way. In their article “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” Christina Haas and Linda Flower examine the different ways readers, mainly students, read a text and break it down for post read analysis. They believe that every student finds different meaning in every text they read as they show when they state, “There is a growing consensus in our field that reading should be thought of as a constructive rather…

Reading Literacy Narrative When I was a child, nobody has ever read to me. My father was too busy working, and my mom used to tell me stories by heart, not reading it from books. One day, when I will have my own children, I will definitely be reading to them. I want them be able to listen and start building desire to read on their own later on in their lives. I have not done a good job in my past when it comes to reading books. I read quickly and couldn’t wait to get to the end of the books to…

There have been many studies over the years evaluating the decline in youth reading. In Charlotte Alter’s 2014, TIME magazine article, “Study: The Number of Teens Reading for Fun Keeps Declining,” she cites a study compiled by Common Sense Media. The Common Sense Media study found that while reading rates of children will steadily decrease as the get older, the decline was more significant over the last thirty years. The study found that in 1984, 8% of 13-year-olds and 9% of 17-year-olds said…

In a 2nd grade classroom that I observed dialogic reading was used in a lesson to promote oral language development. Dialogic reading is an interactive picture book reading activity and the teacher uses an engaging picture book to share with the class (Cooter and Reutzel, 2015, p. 63). The book that the teacher chose to read was “Click Clack Boo’. All of the students were sitting around the teacher on the rug while she sat in a chair where they could all see her. With Halloween soon approaching…