Reading

Philosophy of Reading I am someone who loves children, and knowing that I am one step closer to having my own classroom gives me a huge sense of hope and joy. If I can help just one child, I feel an irresistible sense of accomplishment; and as a teacher I will have the opportunity to help many children. To succeed as a teacher, I need each one of my students to succeed. I believe reading is the backbone of the classroom; and ultimately being a proficient reader increases the chance for…

Guided reading is an essential component to early literacy programs. It is an instructional approach to learning where the teacher works with a small group of students who share similar reading behaviours. The chosen text needs to offer these students challenges and opportunities for problem solving whilst being easy enough to read with some fluency (Scholastic, 2018). Guided reading allows students to practice and strengthen their effective reading strategies. The purpose of guided reading is…

Reading: In the fall of 2015, Alante was given an AGS formal reading assessment used to identify the grade level of reading. Alante scored a 12 out of 20 on the sentence comprehension and 11 out of 20 on the vocabulary. His total score on this assessment was a 23/40 placing him in the 5.4 Instructional Reading Level (The level at which a reader can read text with 90% accuracy (i.e., no more than one error per 10 words read). Instructional reading level engages the student in challenging, but…

Reading – A Self Sufficient Skill The skill of reading is an integral part of all types of learning particularly language learning. It precedes and strongly determines the quality of all important skill, the skill of writing. Proper development of reading skill ensures a sound base for writing. Besides the words of motivation uttered by the teacher, environmental factors play a vital part in inculcating the habit of reading. A child has to be surrounded by a lot of stimulating reading material…

There was something about books to me when I was reading them, like video games but with books. For hours, I would just sit down and read until I was told to do something or until I was done with the book. For example, Geronimo Stilton, a series of books I loved when I was younger back in sixth grade, which I would sit down and finish 5 books in a matter of a few hours. Then I was introduced to no illustration books, which I was not cooperative with reading with until I read Rick Riordan’s…

Instruction in guided reading would begin with open word sorts or an open ended activity. This instruction was tested in a study conducted by Mary Jo Fresch and Aileen Wheaton (1992), the research demonstrated that allowing students to explore and discover the similarities or differences on their own by either categorizing the words or providing a generalization about what they discovered increased students’ knowledge of how letters and sounds work together. In Fresch and Wheaton’s study,…

teacher-facilitator who weaves literacy lessons involving speaking and listening, reading and writing, and viewing and representing for authentic purposes throughout all areas of the curriculum while providing students choice. The teacher can “motivate and support individual students” and “inspire students to be readers and writers.” Students in these classrooms use technology to learn as well as to communicate and spend time on self-selected reading. The teacher regularly uses formative and…

One of the biggest stumbling blocks for struggling readers is motivation. While you can stress the academic importance of strong reading skills, enjoyment is the strongest motivating factor for children learning to read. If your middle school student is struggling with reading, our reading tutors at Study Wizards Tutoring have some suggestions on finding books your children will want to read. First, it's important that the story be engrossing to a reader, have good rhythm, and realistic…

that they become reading interventionists (Buehl, 2011; Gunning, 2018, IRA, 2012; Reed, Wexler, and Vaughn, 2012). Wendt (2013) affirmed the divide between literacy learning and content learning, and the assumption that academic learning presumes the mastery of basic literacy skills. Therefore, the teaching of basic decoding is within the scope of responsibilities for reading specialists and interventionists (Gunning, 2018, IRA, 2012; IRA, 2015). Leveraging the work of the reading specialists to…

As I have been growing up reading and writing has become frustrated to me, the main reason is because my first language is Spanish. Four years ago I came to live in the Valley. Do to this change I had to learn a new language. Which I considered a challenge. Another issue is that I have a difficult time understanding the readings because they are not part of my preference that we used in the classes don’t caught my attention, mainly because I don’t understand some words so that frustrates me.…