...CONTENT AREA LITERACY IMPORTANCE Tracey Turner EDUC 525A Instructor: Craig Carter December 7, 2014 CONTENT AREA LITERACY IMPORTANCE Literacy is an important aspect for success in life in general. An individual’s success in the classroom, in their career, and in their quality of life is directly related to how literate that individual may be. Literacy is more than the ability to read, but how an individual uses written information to function in life. Literacy was traditionally thought of as just the ability to read and understand what has been read. Now, the term literacy is being thought of in terms as a much wider range of skills related to subjects such as science and math. Changes in society and advancements in technology have brought about rising skill requirement in every aspect in life. To be successful in every area, one must be literate in every subject being taught. The success of the school will also be related to how well the school is equipping the students to have strong literacy skills. Regardless of the subject being taught, literacy is an important aspect for success in that subject. In order for a student to fully comprehend in every subject, they must have strong literacy skills in that subject, not just in reading. “The ultimate goal of literacy instruction is to build a student's comprehension, writing skills, and overall skills in communication.”(Alber, 2014). The incorporation of reading instruction and strategies into content area...
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...information. One can no longer rely on just reading and writing alone to learn and gain understanding. Literacy has become a fluid term expanding to include technological literacy, literacy in the disciplines like mathematics, science, history, and english, as well as the traditional reading and writing fluency. It is important to understand the complexity of what literacy has come to mean in order to equip students with the proper skills needed to...
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...The course Reading and Writing across the curriculum was expectedly an eye opener for me. As per usual with courses taught by Dr. Saul and Mrs. Rock, I expected to be involved in activities which showed the importance of reading and writing across all subject matter in the curriculum. My first thoughts of reading and writing were that it was linked exclusively to Language Arts but this course has shown the importance of reading and writing throughout the curriculum. The first topic that intrigued me was Chall’s Stages of Reading Development. These six (6) stages show step by step the process of reading development a child undertakes straight up to adulthood. By having an understanding of these stages and the characteristics that children portray in each, a teacher can effectively cater to the needs of the children. For example, in the first stage, the Pre-Reading Stage, aged six (6) months to (6) years, children garner information via being read to by an adult, who responds to and warmly appreciates the child’s interest in books and reading and via play with books, pencils, paper and blocks. This stage creates a foundation for reading and writing as children identify letters and understand words they hear even though they can read few if any at all. Teachers or adults can let children choose books of interest and read them to them consistently to aid in retention of knowledge. Knowledge of Chall’s Stages of Reading Development is also immensely useful when dealing with children...
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...NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COURSE CODE: CHS 322 COURSE TITLE: COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION AND PARTICIPATION CHS 322: COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION AND PARTICIPATION Course Developer/Writer Chief Michael Wilson Ibet- Iragunima Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology Port Harcourt Prof. Afolabi Adebanjo School of Science and Technology National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos Programme Leader Course Coordinator Kayode S. Olubiyi School of Science and Technology National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos Abuja Annex 245 Samuel Adesujo Ademulegun Street Central Business District Opposite Arewa Suites Abuja E-mail: centralinfo@nou.edu.ng URL: www.nou.edu.ng National Open University of Nigeria 2008 First Printed 2008 ISBN: All Rights Reserved Printed by…………………………………. For National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos e-mail: centrainfo@nou.edu.ng ur/: www.nou.edu.ng Study Units The study units in this course are as follows: Module 1: Unit I: Unit 2: Unit 3: Unit 4: Unit 5: Unit 6: Community Mobilization Concept of Community Mobilization Rationale for Community Mobilization Steps involved in Community Mobilization Community Participation Rationale for Community Participation Formation and Organization of Development Committees Community Diagnosis Concept...
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...Instructional Strategies for ELLs Pre-Emergent Instructional Strategies (Kindergarten) Content Area Strategy and Description Justification Speaking & Listening “Picture Action Match” - Students will learn to follow simple daily routine instructions (i.e., take off your coat, sit down, get your cup, etc.) Student will be verbally given these instructions and need to choose a card that has this picture or symbol on it when needed. This strategy will help increase memorization of relation of words to pictures. Reading “Scavenger Hunt” – Teacher will take a page from the student’s book and eliminate all background pictures that way there are few illustrations. Students will look at the picture and then need to find the page in the book that has the same image. Students will be able to build confidence in understanding on how a book is used. They will feel be learning a skill of the parts of the book and which way it opens and recall information for problem solving on where the picture is. Writing “Art Speaks Words” – The students will be given the opportunity to draw or paint a picture to describe an event or action they did earlier. This is to help students create a finished product. This gives students the opportunity to express themselves with writing even if it is a picture. This helps builds their confidence in expressing their ideas on paper. Emergent Instructional Strategies Content Area Strategy and Description Justification Speaking & Listening “Simon Says” – Students...
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...increase the likelihood that all students, no matter where they live, are prepared for success in college and the work place. Because skillful reading, writing, language use, and speaking and listening are similar across the states, common standards make sense. They make possible common assessments, common achievement goals for grade level groups, and efficiencies of scale for instructional and professional development materials. Instruction in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects—“the Standards”—will prepare Oregon students and students in other CCSS states to be proficient in the four strands of the English language arts (ELA) skills—Reading, Writing, Language, and Speaking and Listening. Utilizing Content Area Expertise Because students need grade-level literacy skills to access full content in school, the emphasis in the Common Core is to learn to read and write in ELA and to develop those skills, specific to the content, in all other classes. The name of the standards reflects this expectation. The Standards for grade 6 and above are predicated on all teachers using their content area expertise to help students meet the particular challenges of reading and writing in their respective fields. For grades K-5, the ELA and subject-area literacy standards are integrated; for grades 6-11/12, they are separate but parallel. Incorporating a Unique Design...
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...Instructional Strategies for ELLs Pre-Emergent Instructional Strategies Content Area | Strategy and Description | Justification | Speaking & Listening | Learn Survival VocabularyThe teacher provides real objects as visuals and verbalizes the object name (ie. Pencil). Students repeat the name of the object and write the word on a flashcard. Students are provided with pictures or may draw their own picture on the other side of the flashcard. Scaffolding of this strategy can be done to suit the proficiency of the learner. | Educational success is strongly linked to a student’s vocabulary development. While many students have background knowledge of the items presented, it is often in their native language and they do not know the English term which makes it difficult to make connections with the content of the lesson (Echevarria, Vogt & Short, 2013). This activity assists students in learning vocabulary to improve their success in making those connections. | Reading | Shared ReadingThe teacher reads from a text that has visuals (maps, pictures, etc.). The teacher reads slowly and clearly and points out key vocabulary during the reading. The teacher asks for one to two word responses or short phrases from students to describe what they learned from the reading. | The use of realia such as pictures, maps, graphs and concrete items assist students with making connections to the content being presented. “When teachers explanations are made more concrete with supplementary...
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...“No skill is more crucial to the future of a child, or to a democratic and prosperous society, than literacy” (The Literacy Company. 2016). This quote could not be truer than it is in today’s world and with today’s economy being as demanding as it is. Rafael Heller tells the readers of his article, “The Scope of the Adolescent Literacy Crisis,” that a two-year college education is almost necessary for a person to get a decent paying job (2016b). Recently, reading and writing professionally have become part of the job requirements and many young adults graduating from high school fail to have the literacy skills required to fulfill these requirements. As someone who has had difficulty in the past with professional reading and writing, and as...
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...ARTS 105 Art Appreciation Summer 2016 Session (15-55) May 30 , 2016 – July 23, 2016 Course Description Introduction to the place of visual art in modern society, to the vocabulary used in discussing a work of art, and the studio techniques artists use to produce two and three-dimensional works Prerequisite: None Proctored Exams: None Instructor Information Dr. Patricia Rooney, PhD American Studies-Visual Culture, St. Louis University M.A. Art History, Webster University parooney@cougars.ccis.edu Textbooks Frank, Patrick. Prebles’ Artforms 11th Edition. 2014. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-205-96811-4 Textbooks for the course may be ordered from MBS Direct. You can order * online at http://direct.mbsbooks.com/columbia.htm (be sure to select Online Education rather than your home campus before selecting your class) * by phone at 800-325-3252 For additional information about the bookstore, visit http://www.mbsbooks.com. Course Overview Art Appreciation is an introduction to the principles and concepts used in the study and analysis of the fine arts, in order to achieve a basic understanding of art and artistic concerns. Art Appreciation studies the major cultural achievements and significant artistic works that have shaped Western culture. The approach to this course is to study the arts in an historical context beginning with the earliest artistic expressions of ancient societies...
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...Course Outline Programme: International Masters of Business Administration Cohort: 57 Academic Year/Trimester: 2015/2016 Trimester II Course Code and Course Name: INBA 6370 - FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS FOR GLOBAL FIRMS Course Type: Core Level: Year 1 Lecturer: Mr. Andre Taitt Lecturer’s e-mail: andre.taitt@fac.gsb.tt Lecturer’s phone #: 1-868-685-5631 Learning Assurance Officer: Alana Ifill Prerequisite/co-requisite course (s): Introduction to Financial Accounting Workshop Involvement of other institutions for delivery: None 1 1.0 Vision and Mission of the Lok Jack GSB Our purpose is to contribute to the development of the human and institutional capacity required to transform the business landscape and shape our own destiny. Through our comprehensive and integrated programmes and consultancy services, we provide a framework for developing new pathways for achieving sustainable growth and competitiveness The mission of the School is to improve the international competitiveness of people and organisations in the Caribbean through business education, training, consulting and research. 2.0 Quality Statement In today’s organization the non financial manager can no longer avoid financial information. Profit statements, operating budgets, and project analyses are constant part of a manager’s day. The concept of the finance and non financial manager has now become very blurred. The modern manager must have the ability to utilize the appropriate...
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...Using Narrative Text in the Secondary Classroom Once upon a time, in a school, very much like your own, American History and all its contents were studied alongside tales of triumph, and defeat. In this history class, the students supplemented curriculum delivered through lectures and textbooks, with materials from sources such as diary entries, editorials, and historical fiction. This is an example of how narrative text can coexist with expository information found in content area classrooms in today's high schools. While the need for expository text is vital to the success of a student to understand the content (i.e., Social Studies) curriculum, narrative literature and various other texts are a great way to supplement the learner with information from which they can draw a better understanding of the state standards. Explained below is a definition of narrative literature, advantages and disadvantages of using narrative text in the high school Social Studies classroom, and five possible uses for using narrative texts in the high school classroom. Narrative Literature Narrative literature can be both fiction such as novels, as well as non-fictional works such as memoirs (Burke). Often, narrative literature includes many of the following: a plot, character, problems, and themes. In fictional work, one generally finds a setting, with a beginning, a reaction, and an ending (Roe, Stoodt-Hill, & P. C. Burns, 2004). Narrative literature can, and does exist on its own in...
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...Grade 5 and Grade 6 students in SMA has positive relationship with their academic performance in Learning English. Measures of study behaviors, also called study skills, strategies, or techniques, can serve as diagnostic tools to help instructors identify students in need of additional help and can also provide a better awareness of a student’s strengths and weaknesses and, correspondingly, ways to optimize his or her learning. Study behaviors can be broadly defined as behaviors functioning to acquire, organize, synthesize, evaluate, remember, and use information (Crede & Kuncel, 2008; Gettinger & Seibert, 2002). Such behaviors include time management; goal setting; selecting what, how, and where to study; taking good notes; reading; and self-testing. Researchers have divided the many specific study behaviors into four main categories: repetition-based (e.g., flashcards), cognitive-based (e.g., studying with a friend), procedural (e.g., time management), and metacognitive (e.g., taking quizzes to test self-knowledge). Today, a lot of students are failing their subjects or have low grades on English. These may be occurring due of lack of study skills/habits. Good study skills minimize failure and enable students to take advantages of learning opportunities. The researchers believe to achieve good study skills; one must have a desire to learn and to...
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...for Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines Contents Technical note: If using an electronic version of this handbook, click on any underlined text to link to the specific section in the document. Foreword 3 Position Statement 4 Introduction 6 Reading Across the Disciplines: • Response to Literature 8 • Reading for Information 11 Writing Across the Disciplines: • Interdisciplinary Writing 15 • Editing and Revising 18 Instructional Strategies to Use All Year 19 CAPT Strategies for All Students 22 Additional Assessment Information 25 Released Items 26 Foreword On behalf of the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE), I am pleased to present the Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT) Third Generation Handbook for Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines. The third generation CAPT, developed in 2004 and piloted in 2005 and 2006, will be administered live for the first time in March 2007. This handbook has been developed to provide Connecticut’s public school educators with important information about the CAPT reading and writing across the disciplines assessments. It should serve as a reference for all content area teachers as they prepare their students. It is designed to answer the frequently asked questions about these assessments. I urge you to review the handbook, and I hope it will be helpful in your efforts to improve reading and writing...
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...The plan will provide an intervention that uses texts and key vocabulary aligned with texts and subject matter taught in those grade levels (curriculum-based language assessment and intervention). The treatment protocol focuses on four areas: word study, vocabulary in content-area text, comprehension of content-area text, and engagement (Vaughn, Sharon, 2015). It was gathered from the case history that Kathy does not like to be pulled out from class. The RTI will then focus on providing the teachers with the utmost comprehensive instructions and strategies to facilitate learning in the classroom. For this reading intervention approach the research staff hired, trained, and supported reading intervention teachers. All interventionists were certified teachers with experience teaching students with disabilities or struggling readers. They all participated in a weeklong professional development program prior to implementing the interventions. Effective intervention was modeled, and participants had opportunities to practice and receive constructive feedback on the match between their practice and the normative program model. Peer groups were established, and pairs of participants were encouraged to review...
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...Manager. DISABILITY IMPACT STATEMENT Adapt one of the following. Potential handicapping conditions are noted in all caps. Do not include in the HANDICAPPING CONDITION (i.e. LEARNING DISABLED) in the statement: • Student’s (Student's name) eligibility condition in the area of basic reading affects her ability to read and understand words and passages in reading. LEARNING DISABILITY • Student’s eligibility condition in math calculations affects his ability to solve math computation assignments. LEARNING DISABILITY • Student’s eligibility condition in the area of reading comprehension impacts his ability to read and understand math word problems. LEARNING DISABILITY • Student’s eligibility condition in reading affects his ability to understand the meaning of words and passages in science. LEARNING DISABILITY • Student’s educational disability condition in the area of...
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