Text consists of words which are organized into sentences and paragraphs and high order discourse like sections and chapters. The mental pictures the reader forms is called the surface memory. When I think of reading in my classroom i think a lot about Stanovich, K. , and West, R.

I have been a fan of Patricia Polacco for several years now. I did an author study on her for one of my undergraduate classes and have admired and enjoyed her work ever since. I was excited when I found out I would be reading one of her books for a graduate class. My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother.

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How this course has impacted my view of reading and learning to read. How this course has impacted my view of teaching reading. I believe a balanced approach is best when teaching reading. I really like the responsive teaching approach because a knowledgable teacher can identify specific areas of weakness and provide the student with essential feedback. I also think phonics should b.

In this method of instruction students are taught words as whole parts. It is believed to be easier to distinguish words rather than phonemes in this method because words are units of meaning where as phonemes are units of sound. Once students understand a set of basic sight words they can begin reading text using this controlled vocabulary. 1 Who is Luke? 3 The.

MA Reading Reports and Projects. How this course has impacted my view of learning to read. Can good and poor readers also be differentiated on the basis of their vocabulary knowledge? How this course has impacted my view of teaching reading. F My school is heavy on phonics instruction and offers tutoring with the Responsive teaching approach for at risk readers.

Whole-word instruction includes teaching words as units; children will recognize the spoken word as a meaningful unit. In whole-word instruction, students are shown a flash card with a word on it. Then the teacher pronounces it and asks the student to repeat it. The teachers usually starts with a small set of words and gradually builds the set. I would characterize the reading instruction in my school to be mostly prescriptive .

I think that teachers need to figure out what works best for them, and wha.

This is a North Carolina concrete poem that I completed with my class. We started by listing facts that we knew about North Carolina and we wrote them on the board. Next, we put a blank sheet of paper over a map of North Carolina and write the facts line by line. My students loved this! Reasons I love Brandon. I love my best friend. I feel like a princess.

This content is password protected. Enter your password to view comments. 8211; I used my invitation for my both I poetry project and my multigenre project. I am the Trail of Tears. I loved the article about the memoir unit.