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An example of that is “...combining spelling mini lessons with the roots students learn gives a reason to practice spelling new words, and using the roots in other class activities gives the opportunity to practice what they have learned” (Kail, 65). In class, we discussed the significance of retrieval practice. Retrieval practice is especially helpful in student learning because it forces students to pull knowledge out they have learned and apply it. The more opportunities students get to retrieve information from their memory, the better they will remember it. As students used the roots in other class activities, they were simply making more connections, which increases the ways the brain has access to that information.…
The two treatment groups were assessed on the vocabulary and retell probes a third time 2 months after the completion of treatment. The NT group was not administered the maintenance probe at this time because this group started treatment immediately after their posttest. Progress over the three test times (Time 1 = pretest, Time 2 = posttest, Time 3 = 2 months postcompletion) was assessed by means of repeated measures ANOVAs, with Time as the within-subjects factor and Group (MT and BT) as the between-subjects factor. For the receptive vocabulary probe, there was a significant effect of Time, F(2, 32) = 97.734, p = .000, h2 = .859. No other effects were significant.…
Aaliyah exhibits a significant weakness with her long term storage and retrieval as evidenced by her performance withing the cognitive assessment. This may indicate that Aaliyah may experience difficulty with storing and retrieving previously taught concepts to utilize them at a later time for new learning. This can impact her ability to keep pace withing the general curriculum as well as her ability to recall important information for tests or proper knowledge when learning new related concepts. She may require consistent repetition and practice as well as refreshing previously taught concepts. Based on evaluation results and classroom based assessments, it is apparent that Aaliyah is not currently achieving at her expected ability level…
Language has been a part of society for as long as history can remember. What about language makes it so vitally important? How does language shape our society? In Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Butler, she explores the meaning of language and how it affects the world we live in. Butler uses a post apocalyptic setting to show the ways that communication are part of and define society.…
Repetition Is the Foundation of Any Effective Speech Throughout history, speeches have been known to change many lives both during the speech’s time and in the modern era. At the foundation of any one of these speeches is the literary element known as repetition. Though repetition is known most commonly for its literal meaning of repeating words, this literary device is much more than that. A speaker’s repetition can cause the listeners to react an abundance of ways ranging from cheering for themselves to becoming violent towards others.…
I completely agree with all of your statements and how we can give children knowledge to be healthy and active. Unfortunately, children are being denied their physical activity time. This could be due to being disruptive in the classroom or homework is not completed, so the children are punished and their recess time is taken away from them. In the book, “The Read-Aloud Handbook”, by Jim Trelease, he discusses not only the benefits of reading aloud to children, but the difference that Finland has with the United States. In the book, Trelease states, “…there are fifteen minutes of recess for every forty-five minute class…”…
My read aloud did not followed my lesson plan, before I read the story to the students, I forgot to show the students all the pictures in the storybook as I planned. The high points from my read aloud were that the students were engaged by acting out as baby owls or owl mother, and answering the questions from the storybook. The weak points from my read aloud were reading the story too fast, and after I asked a question to the students, I should wait a little longer wait time for the students to think and response. To make the read aloud better for next time, I will need to slow down my speed and pause as needed. Also, after reading the story, I should ask the students some questions for them to connect their own experiences with the story,…
For many years, psychologists, scientists and behavior annalists have lived with the controversy of whether Distributed practice or Massed practice produces better learning. Many discoveries about the mind from cognitive scientist prove that there are certain techniques that improve the memory more than others. A group of rookie scientists decided to ask Dr. Sean Kang which is an assistant Professor and also Director of “Cognition and Education Lab located at Dartmouth College, about which is the most effective technique for teachers to use with their students to learn something well. Without any hesitation, he explained how Distributed practice over Massed practice has been proven to be the most efficient strategy that can produce durable learning experiences and retention to the working memory.…
Kheirzadeh and Parzadian (2015) investigated whether there were differences between children and adults in their working and long term memory functioning. They conducted a study consisting of young and older male adults that were learners of English. The instructors selected words from two books that participants had studied in their past semester. One book for the younger learner and one book for the adult. First, participants received a recall test right after being showed a slideshow containing words from the books.…
In Dr. Cook’s Materials for Teaching Reading, we learned effective ways to give a read aloud. In many of my language arts lessons, I had to read aloud a text to the student. Also, every day after lunch I would read a chapter from a Ready Freddy book to the students. We learned to introduce the book to the students and to mention the title, author, and illustrator. When I would do a read a loud in my language arts lesson I would always do this, the students were very interested to hear this about the book we were reading.…
“The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking” In recent years, taking notes by using a laptop has become increasingly common among students attending lectures. It is evident from previous studies that if laptops are used for note taking while surfing the web or for other distractions, it will impair the learning process. However, this study aims to show that even without these distractions, students will perform worse than longhand note takers because they have the tendency to write the notes verbatim, instead of making into their own words.…
This week’s webcast with Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan was very informative. I learned that when a language is alphabetic, the consonant sounds transfer very well from language to language. Therefore, a teacher can be aware of the difficulties and problems regarding that area even if the child is speaking their native language. However, vowels, especially short vowel sounds, are very difficult for English Language Learners. Dr. Hagan then went into some detail about how to help with the vowel sounds, and one tool that came up quite often in the webcast was repetition.…
In the current study, participants had to memorize a character set of either consonants or digits and were presented with a distractor task that was similar or dissimilar to the corresponding character set. The study did show a difference between similar character sets and distractor tasks having lower recall rates, however, they were not sufficient enough to prove that the results happened by chance. Current research by Chiu & Egner (2015) show that the results indicated that switching tasks, reduce memory for distractors, and that when presented with focusing on the distractor tasks reduces encoding the previous information. Although, the results to the current study correspond with the findings of Gronau, Cohen, & Ben-Shakhar (2009). The results of the current study failed to support the hypothesis; however, there is sufficient evidence to prove that this effect exists, and that further research needs to be tested.…
Some people learn quick by reading a book and by pronouncing out the word and understanding the words from the books. Some of them have difficult in reading and understanding the…
Shortly after they were dismissed, then returned one week later to take the final test. A couple of key facts to remember were the effects that the four learning conditions had on the rate of which the foreign vocabulary words were learned, the predictions the student’s gave regarding their future performance, and the “long-termed retention” after waiting a week to take the final test. The article provides figure 1 which shows the cumulative proportion of the pairs of vocab words recalled during the learning phase, which also counts the first time a student recalled a word pair. On average, according to the chart in figure 1, the students from each of the four condition groups predicted they would remember around 50% of the vocabulary words, so there were no specific differences between the four conditions.…