Reading Works

is a ‘minds-on’ emphasis in the learning of science” (Glynn & Muth, 1994). The “minds-on” emphasis of literacy comes from being able to fully express your ideas through clear language, thought, and writing. Activities that involve students to do reading, writing, and discussing engage students minds and set them up to problem-solve like…

On the surface reading is a relatively easy activity, but if you are to read critically more steps than simply reading must be taken. Reading critically is a process of analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating the text being read. This essentially means to question what you read to unearth the facts written on the page. The goal of critical reading is to recognize the author's purpose as well as any associated biases and ultimately assess its credibility. The following steps will expound on this…

longer to read then most of the students. Her reading is choppy and many times sounds more like she's reading a word list than a story. Felicia doesn’t read in sentences she reads word by word making her reading process extremely slow. Laura struggles with trying to figure out what to do to help Felicia with her reading and fluency. Every day Felicia’s teacher, Laura, gives students ten minutes of free reading. Each day during this free read Felicia is reading a new book. Felicia’s fluency…

Her mother prepared her some books to read during the camp, and she says that it was so natural for her, because reading books was the most popular group activity in her family and it was their way of being ‘social.’ Her family members could enjoy being with their loved ones, as well as roaming around their own thoughts at the same time. So she expected to be with other girls reading books…

cursive is that you might have a little sibling that needs help with cursive. then they might ask you and then you would have to tell them to ask the mom or dad. If we don’t keep teaching cursive then some children might miss out on some things like reading recipes. because they are in cursive so they just cant read moms recipes or dads or grandmas because most adults wright in cursive but not all. We still should be taught cursive because it is very helpful and we will need…

people interacting with each other. (2) Literacy events can be common things, like reading and discussing the news, or sporadic activities, like discussing a novel with a classmate. Since literacy events can viewed as literacy by some people and not by others, it is difficult to give the term “literacy event” a definition. Every day we find ourselves in a literacy event whether you’re in a meeting at work reading and discussing the rules and regulations or your sitting in your English class…

Until this class I never really identified what literacy was. I have always known about reading and writing, but never once did I look at it as knowledge that would bring me success. I now see that it is much broader than just simply writing and reading, but being able to interpret and communicate through it. My literacy has been important to me from day one and is a type of knowledge that can progress for a lifetime and be a tool to enable my success. From as young as I can remember my mom…

the United States have bel¬¬¬ow the basic level of prose literacy. A well functioned society should consist of well functioned community, and knowing how to read and write is a necessity for the perfect society. Reading and writing are skills acquired in our everyday life such as, reading the newspaper, and writing emails. Nevertheless, many people are still illiterate. In 2004, UNESCO estimated that 800 million people are illiterate; that makes up nearly 1 in 6 people in the world! In…

up to her she told them to figure it out she was busy. On the playground Mrs. Dominguez talked to me about all the business school she went to out of state because her husband was in the army. She told me wanted to be a lawyer but since that didn’t work out she became a teacher. This experience really opened my eyes at all the diversity there is in public school, not only with the children but with the teachers as well. Farlow was hip and trendy teacher who gave respect to receive it, while…

is very passionate about reading and enjoys doing it rather than looking at reading to be more like a chore. Whenever I asked him if reading was something he enjoyed doing he responded with “Yes, I enjoy reading. Something else that I also enjoy about reading are the visual images I am able to make when I read a story.” This child not only reads at school to complete assignments but also spends free time at home reading. Aside from school assignments that require reading his favorite type of…