When My Kids Unplugged Analysis

The Synopsis that I gathered from Haas and Flowers’ “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” was none the less another interesting read. Experienced readers might come to understand that both reading and writing can be “context-rich, situational, and have constructive acts”. Though a large number of students may find reading and writing more or less to be an exchange of valued or non-valued information. Continuing on, multiple studies that have been conducted have also found that on average 77 percent of experienced readers tend to use content strategies to expand their knowledge of the reading. These strategies usually include vigorous annotations of the reading/writing that have been shown to improve the readers/writers’ comprehension of the material.

Upon reading this book, I was overwhelmed by the simplicity this book offered. Since kindergarten I have gone a Catholic school, and during this I have had to read several books involving a variety of Catholic teachings, in which most them difficult or uninteresting to read. However, after reading Live Today Well it has become the easiest and my new favorite theological book I have read. It does a fantastic job in taking the various parts of a day a person will encounter, simplifies them, and guides the reader on how to apply St. Francis’ pathway to a devout life in their day.

In “Reading and Thought” by Dwight Macdonald, Macdonald raises the idea of reading deeply and how our society has changed its reading style. He points out that our modern society constantly reads irrelevant information in articles, newspapers, or magazines in our daily lives. A term called “functional curiosity” is a person’s interest in being amused, entertained or wanting to know what’s happening around the world. According to Henry Luce, the creator of Time magazine, “Functional Curiosity grows as the number of educated peoples grows.” Macdonald argues that being “functionally curious” is not functional because it does not help the individual function.

Young adults seem to be achieving adulthood at a later time in life. Whether it’s college students going back to their home or living on their parents budget late into their lives, many adolescents seem to be achieving adulthood less and less in their twenties than generations before. In Henig’s article titled, “What Is It About 20-Somethings”, she states that “getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever” (200). Trying to explain this new advancement, Henig sources Professor Jeffrey Arnett, who has introduced the rise of a new life stage, identified by exploring one 's identity, self-focus, and endless possibilities for the prospect called “emerging adulthood”. A bulk of the blame for the development of Arnett’s new stage of life that Henig explores can be sourced on the recent popularity of social media that is discussed in Maria Konnikova’s article “The Limits of Friendship”.

Orff Method The Orff Method, developed by the German composer Carl Orff, is a technique of teaching music that engages in different activities like singing, playing rhythmic or percussion instruments. Lessons are presented with an element of “play”, helping the children at their own level of understanding. Moreover, according to Flohr (2010), the Orff Method helps them to be creative, to improvise, to move and dance. This approach is used not only in the elementary, but it is also utilized in the middle school all throughout the world. It is strong in meeting the national standard in music education which includes improvisation, composition and playing instrument.

Will children be reading for fun in the next ten years? Most children today do not read for fun or even enjoy reading. In the passage, “Read with Purpose,” by Cheryl Barnett-Bey, she explains how she would just skim through the pages of a book instead of reading it, so she could receive the reading certificates. According to Barnett-Bey, “At present, very few people are reading to be inspired or to dream” (333). Barnett-Bey points out that television and the internet are big components to why reading is now being taken for granted.

In “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Readers” by Kavitha Rao, she express her opinion on the topic that the current generation is not reading for fun. She mentions several experience she had with other people, that don 't see the benefit in reading for fun. She says that since people aren 't reading more leisure anymore they 're becoming less creative, inarticulate, have poor communication skills and low confidence, which is caused by parents forcing their kids to read, and the education system need to have students memorize textbooks and nothing else. After reading this article I find myself disagreeing with Rao on several points she made, I don’t believe the modern attitude towards reading is causing people to be self absorbed and unimaginative, she also claims that book clubs don 't encourage reading for fun, parents are forcing their children to read boring books which turned them away from reading and that the educational system is to blame for college students for being inarticulate.

My reading goal from December was not a very difficult, the goals were plain and simple, I wanted to read more frequently, increase my vocabulary, and also increase my understanding in reading. My goal was to read four days a week for thirty minutes, I wanted to increase my use and understanding of more words, and to increase my understanding to do better on reading comprehension tests. Unlike last month 's reading goal this month had a much greater improvement, my goal to read more frequently was kept. Compared to last month 's goal I read much more often and kept at it. Also my understanding on more difficult vocabulary words increased, I feel that I understand more words and had to stop less.

Influence of Social Media: Does it Reflect Good Effects? Technology had played a huge role in the modern life in the community. It brought us a lot of convenience and makes our tasks easier and makes life more manageable. But does it really improves our lifestyle?

Reading is the act or skill of reading and Strategy is a plan of action made to reach a goal. Reading strategy is a decisive, intellectual action that an individual acquires when they are reading to help build and preserve meaning. There are two reading strategies that are used mostly in schools, colleges and technical institutions and are taught in communication and study skills course which is extensive reading and intensive reading. Extensive reading is the widening of knowledge of a pointed topic through large quantity reading. It is commonly used for knowing the country and the world as a whole which increases knowledge and widens our perspective though general understanding and pleasure.