Kamil is a Polish bilingual student who attends to fourth grade at Cowlishaw Elementary. He has been attending Cowlishaw since second grade. Prior to that, he used to live in Poland where he completed first grade. The examiner conducted an interview with Kamil’s mother in order to garner a deeper understanding of Kamil’s reading attitudes and experiences. According to Kamil’s mother, Kamil is an eager reader whose favorite genres of books are history books, action and adventure novels as well as humorous comic books. Kamil also likes to listen to her read biography picture books and Bible. She often reads to Kamil before he goes to sleep, however she does not ask questions about the read passages because Kamil gets very irritated and always tells her that it is not school and he wants to …show more content…
He also said the examiner that he had read at home the night before. When asked about the things he had to learn to become a better reader, he answered that he had to “learn words that I can hardly understand”. Kamil was not able to tell who got him interested about reading books, but he identified action in the book as the important factor which excited him about reading.
CORE Phonics Survey
The examiner conducted the CORE Survey in order to refine the understanding of Kamil’s additional instructional needs and identify areas of strengths. The CORE Survey focuses on assessing the phonics skills including alphabet skills, reading and decoding skills, and spelling skills. Students who take this assessment are asked to provide letter names and sounds, read both real and made-up words as well as spell words. The results of the survey are summarized on the next page:
Skill Subtest Score Instructional need
Alphabet Skills Letter names – uppercase 26/26
Alphabet Skills Letter names – lower case 26/26
Alphabet Skills Consonant Sounds 0/23
Dana Gioia creates a passage encouraging, influencing, and informing the reader of the recent literacy rate decline. He begins by verbalizing the problem, then moving to how it connects to business, then finally the decline affecting politics. Gioia uses evidence such as facts and quotes to support this idea and drive the thoughts into the reader’s head. These strategies, build his argument and assists with persuading the reader on how this decline will have a negative effect on society.
In this essay the author, Dana Gioia, discusses his opinion on the effect of a decline in reading. Gioia starts by introducing his topic and than giving his theme statement. Now we all know his purpose for the article. He begins his explanation by discussing the development of a young adults mind. The theme of reading being important to young adult’s, seems to flow through this piece.
All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 of Australian schools will soon sit The National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), which assesses them using national tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy. It is possible to see how much progress in literacy and numeracy a student has made as they advance through schooling, by the introduction of ten achievement bands from Year 3 to Year 9. Governments always feel the demand from the electorate for information on which to base decisions and schools are no different. They have taken the tests a step further - using the results to publish a website ranking schools against those of a similar nature. There is talk of expanding the service to hospitals and child care centres.
This study is to investigate this clam and to provide some evidence as to whether students exposed to AR in elementary school will be more likely to continue higher level of reading in middle school and above. Using a instruments like the Title Recognition Test, it is possible to determine whether there are differences in the amount of reading done by middle school students who have been exposed to AR compared to the students who have not. If there is a differences between the students than the claim that AR program produces lifelong readers would be
After we completed the guided reading section we worked with words. During our working with words lesson, Reid worked on both phonics and sight words skills. For phonics, we used clips cards and sorting as our main strategies. With these two strategies, we changed them around to meet the needs of the student. We used sorting for r-controlled vowels, identifying lowercase ‘b’ and ‘d’, and sorting vowel sounds.
In the book, The Girl with the Brown Crayon by teacher Vivian Gussin Paley is based on her curriculum for her classroom activity that was an influence by the author Leo Lionni’s books. Her book shows us the discoveries with her students and about her own personal innovation toward her student and herself. Through this unit she based her activity on several of Leo Lionni’s book the class explores the themes of diversity and identity between themselves and others. This book approached issues with child-sensitive behavior issues and with the aspect of dual language learning also. When reading about the author different description on each child and what she ultimately discovers for herself their different traits and characteristic the importance
Through the employment of anecdote, Alexie gives the audience personal insight into a critical point of his childhood. Because the examples shown in his essay are genuine, he allows the reader to more emotionally connect to his argument about the effects of reading. Alexie opens his essay with “I learned to read from a Superman comic book” (Alexie 215), in an attempt to engage the reader by mentioning the famed superhero and to have audience reminisce about childhood. He also introduces his child-self as a little boy who “refused to fail, was smart, arrogant, and lucky”, hoping that the reader will see themselves in him (Alexie 218). Through descriptions of his challenging life on the reservation, the author appeals to the emotions of his audience,
The parent’s perspective towards bilingual education was like the student’s opinions because both individuals felt immersion classrooms benefit the students and the parents. The father of Jason was proud his son was the first in his family to read, write, and speak in English. Jason’s father knew his son would have many career opportunities by learning English at school. Learning the English academic language was not the only proud language Jason’s father encouraged for Jason to learn but also the Spanish language as well. Jason’s father only speaks Spanish so if his son was to lose his home language, a language barrier would form between father and son.
Goal: When reading a 5th grade passage and a word is unknown, Scott will be able to use the context clues, word roots, prefixes, suffixes and inflectional ending within a passage for 3 out of 4 trials. In reading, Scott is diligently working on expanding his vocabulary words. When Scott comes to a word that he doesn’t know he is able to figure out the meaning within the context, but he doesn’t know how to pronounce the word. He has been working on expanding on his vocabulary range of words that are of grade appropriate.
Richard Rodriguez, author of “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” grew up speaking Spanish at home for the beginning of his life, and having the great connection with family that most hope for during their lifetime. This all suddenly changed when he entered school. Starting at a young age, Richard was surrounded by all English-speaking people that he could not communicate well with. The only instances where English would be would have been during public outings, and interaction with others. At home, his parents also struggled to speak English making the situation even harder on Richard.
If his students are not able to read fluently, then they will have to focus on sounding out the words instead of comprehending what the text is saying. So this will show why the students either scored high or not. b. Another test Adrian could administer is: The Early Names Test. This test shows how well his students are able to decode grapheme-phoneme patterns in single-syllable words. This will allow him to see how well the students are able to decode and whether or not that will affect their reading ability.
There are 5 sub skills for alphabet knowledge. These are letter writing, letter name fluency, letter sound knowledge, letter name knowledge, and letter sound fluency. Print awareness is a child’s ability to learn concepts about print, recognize print, including print in books, conventions of print, and learning
Justification: (approximately 100-150 words) Based on Nicole’s SDQA scoring sheet, her instructional level was not determined because she did not score two errors on any level. She scored at 5th grade independent level and 6th grade frustration level. Her score sheet reveals that her reading skills strengths include phonemic awareness and letter-sound knowledge and decoding because she recognized letter patterns in some of the words she misread. This leads me to believe that Nicole has strong phonic analysis skills and a high sight word vocabulary which allows her the confidence to attempt reading multisyllabic words. Nicole’s reading level should begin at the 4th grade level because the last grade-level word list scored as independent was 5th grade.
In my experiences, reading has more often than not, been presented in a negative light. However, this does not mean that I have enmity for reading; in fact, there are rare occasions in which I actually enjoy it. For instance, during my sophomore and junior years of high school, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby assigned to me; these particular books left quite the impression on me. On the contrary, other books such as the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel did not improve my already negative outlook; in some cases, Wiesel’s novel intensified it.
Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why is that so? Reading is one of the most beneficial and practical activities that a human being can do. Unfortunately it is a disappointment that people these days read less. As we know, books were the main source of entertainment centuries ago, but with the widespread of technological advances such as the cinema, television, internet, among others, many people left their books on the bookshelf. The purpose of this speech is to present the benefits and the importance of reading.