Produced the Word Amalgamation Theory that helped me understand the mnemonic power of spelling.

Thoughts and Reflections About Teaching Reading. 1 On page 182, Walczyk discusses compensatory mechanisms and the conditions under which they may be used.

June 12, 2010 by bterauds. 1 Compensatory mechanisms are tools for dealing with subcomponent inefficiencies and resource limitations when reading. Compensatory mechanisms are a form of remediation that older readers may use to head off comprehension failure.

As a fourth grade teacher, I realize the complexity of reading instruction. The studies that have been presented and shared in this class have outlined the various components of reading and how they are integrated. Vocabulary is a reading component that has many educators, including myself, puzzled.

Final Reflection Paper for RE5120-Dr. Reflection on RE5120 with Dr. Basically good comprehenders think about each sentence by interpreting and reorganizing it if necessary and of course applying their prior knowledge where as poor comprehenders may understand the sentence in reading but fail to do what the good comprehenders are doing. Overall this course has opened my eyes and mind to endless ways in which researchers think. I have gained much knowledge and.

In their test they had college students read a number of sentences and try and recall the word at the end of each sentence, as well as a few other tasks involving recall. We did this task in class and it was much more difficult than it seemed it should be! Ehri, L.

The psychology of reading examines the basis of one of the most important concepts man kind has developed. How does one learn to read? Does each person learn reading diagnostically same? Many researchers and linguist have pondered these very same questions for ages.

I have learned so much more about reading, from this class, than I expected. I never knew there were so many intricacies involved in something I take for granted. I have always loved to read, have never had any problems with it, and never realized, until taking this class, how many different processes are in.

Working in a high poverty school, I encounter students everyday that do not have the vocabulary or the background experiences to understand text. These articles mentioned above fully encircle my job for these children. Not only do I need to teach the skills to decompose the written word, I have.

1 On page 182, Walczyk discusses compensatory mechanisms and the conditions under which they may be used. What does he mean by compensatory mechanisms? Compensatory mechanism are strategies older readers use to help them understand the text they are reading. These strategies are used to compensate for the skills they do not have automatized, such as word recognition. I think that the authors explain the discr.