...Vocabulary instruction and the impact it has on reading comprehension is a topic that appears to be discussed but is not researched as much as we previously envisioned. There are many articles discussing how to implement quality instruction to provide vocabulary development at the elementary level. There appears to be little research on how vocabulary directly impacts student reading comprehension. There is also little research on how word walls impact overall vocabulary development. Vocabulary is one of the five major components of reading along with phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency and reading comprehension. All components are essential when it comes to reading but we believe that vocabulary plays an important role both in learning to read and in comprehending text. Readers cannot understand text without knowing what the words they are reading mean. Although we did not find as much research as hoped, we did find a wide variety of articles that examined the impact that vocabulary instruction has on reading. Many of the articles that we found explained a variety of ways to improve vocabulary instruction that would in turn increase vocabulary development. Some studies looked at emerging language skills such as alliteration, rhyming, segment blending and letter-word identification. Others focused more on decoding, word knowledge and word recognition. Other variables considered included age, gender, race or ethnicity, household income, disability and even parental intelligence...
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...Learning to read and to write There was a magical feeling in the air, you felt like anything was possible when you pulled up to the blue door outside of the school. I always wondered what was behind that door when my mom would drop my sister off, luckily I knew my turn was coming next year and I would be one of the kids playing out front waiting for the bell to ring and then I would be able to walk through that door. What was behind that door was even more than a magical feeling. When you walked in jut to the left were the cubbies. Not just any cubbies, my cubby where I would hang my coat and put my bag every day. As you walked further into the room it opened up into a bright, sunny, fun room with a carpet in the right hand corner and these things called ABC’s up on the wall, along with crafts in the back of the room that we would soon work on once a week. But the most amazing part of my kindergarten experience stood right there in the middle of the room, Mrs.Zigler herself. She is the one that taught me how to read and to write. My earliest memory of learning to read and write would defiantly have to kindergarten, the best grade ever. I think kindergarten has a lot to do with who I'm as writer and the things I like to pick up and read. My kindergarten experience can be broken down into three different categories; reading time, activities, and Mrs.Zigler. Because of my reading and writing experience in kindergarten I really enjoy science, babysitting, and soccer. Reading...
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...Learning how to read and write is a big milestone in a child's life. Being able to read and get involved in a book is the best feeling ever. Growing up, I could remember from a young age my mother reading all different types of Disney books to me. I loved the Disney books that had a princess in it because when I was younger, I thought I was going to become a princess when I grew up, of course, that didn’t happen. For most of my life, up to age seven, my mom or teachers read to me because I had a speech delay and a learning disability that made it difficult for me to read alone. I would pretend to a read a book by myself, but I never really got the concept of reading and understanding what I was reading till age seven. At age seven is when I...
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...Reading, along with writing, were two very important skills that I learned at a very young age. Learning how to read and write was an exciting new skill I learned that I knew would take me far in life. I remember the day we first started learning how to write. We began writing the letters of the alphabet. First the capital letter “A”, then the lowercase, and so on and so forth. This seemed very simple at first, but once my teacher left my side things got a little challenging. She started asking the class to spell words by ourselves. I was a little uneasy in the beginning but once I grasped the concept of things and practiced more, things became much simpler. Although writing was fairly straightforward to learn, reading was more puzzling and harder to comprehend. I remember looking at the letters and knowing what they were, but pronouncing them was a totally different story. Understanding and remembering the sounds of the different letters took much longer for me to learn. Although I could speak pretty clear, seeing some of the words I spoke on a day to day basis seemed very uncommon. But, as the saying goes, practicing truly does make perfect. Once I fully understood the concepts of reading and writing, nobody could stop me from doing it. I would be the first one to raise my hand in class to read the stories from the books and to write different things on the board. This was and still is a very big accomplishment I have achieved in my life. This was also a very proud...
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...I remember as a young child my parents, teachers, and tutor always saying " read the book" and I didn't. I thought that it was just silly to do so and that it wasn't necessary, especially since the teachers would always teach us what was in the book. Now that I am older and have to read more documents and sign more papers on my own, I see why it is important to learn how to read. Most of what we learn is through reading. The more we read, the more we know and the more we are able to remember. Through reading comes knowledge. When we read, our brain processes the information and stores it as memory. This gives us more knowledge because after reading any kind of material several times, we will have eventually learned it and remember it more. This is because our...
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...The earliest memory I have of learning to read is from when I was five years old. My mom was busy getting ready to go out. Mark my oldest brother attempted to teach me. Michael, my older brother teased me. His teasing was hurtful. Mark, didn’t let him get away with it. My lesson in reading ended before it began. At the age of five, I became interested in books. I found the pictures intriguing. I felt that the words in a book were for adults, and the pictures were for kids. I was in kindergarten when I realized they weren’t. I remember my teacher Mrs. H, passing out a list of books to read over the summer. I asked my friend “What does she want us to do with this”? My friend faced me and said “Read them”. Other classmates chimed in with titles of their favorite books. I felt embarrassed and dumb. That was the moment I realized, I need to learn how to read. Later that night at home, I was upset about what happened at school. I went right to my room. Laying on my bed, I stared at the books on my bookshelf. I got up from my bed and decided to try to read. I picked up a book off the bookshelf. The book was The...
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...Ryan Pearcy Critical Task Eng 121 Malcolm X: Learning to Read They say knowledge is power. I choose to believe the saying should be the implementation of knowledge is power. What good is knowledge if you do nothing with it? The time that Malcolm X spent reading, gaining knowledge, and then applying this knowledge in his beliefs is remarkable. Reading is the key to growing our intellectual minds and Malcolm X is a great example of this. You think you know someone and the reality sets in and your views are completely changed. This was my initial reaction after reading Malcolm X: Learning to Read. History has taught me that Malcolm X was a man who fought for what he believed in and was one of the strongest activist for black rights. I’ve come to know him as a man that went to extreme measure and was often mixed up in criminal activity. While some of those beliefs may be fact, there is also a bit of fiction to them. While reading Malcolm X: Learning to Read I learned what a brilliant man Malcolm X became to be. The intelligence was not developed through standard education but was developed spending almost 15 hours a day reading in prison. Book after book and topic after topic were explored. Black rights, genetics, history of America, and many more were exhausted to the point of memorization. Malcolm X went as far as to copy the dictionary page by page into his own tablet to expand his vocabulary. The extremes this man went to were amazing. It was interesting the knowledge...
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...VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Name: Institution: VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Overview of the read/write learning style The read/write learning style mainly makes the use of printed words to receive and convey learning information. Using the style enables one skill to become the input of another through the transfer of the ability to read to that of writing. The skills transfer is integral in raising the awareness of how the structural components involved in learning are shared in both reading and writing modalities (VARK, 2016). One of the reasons a leaner may choose to embrace the read/write learning style is because it facilitates cognitive concept mastery since it brings out the aspect of making sense of what is read through fixing it in memory by writing it down (Crawford, 2005). Therefore, the method strengthens the learning quality by incorporating both the senses of sight and touch. Pointed out herein is how personal reading/writing strategies compare to the VARK preferred read/write learning style strategies and how the awareness of the individual learning style (read/write style) influences teaching and learning. Preferred learning strategies for read/write learning style * Identification of the item or subject that require a study. * Development of learning goals and questions or hypotheses with regard to the subject of study. * Identification of the sources from which the study will derive concepts from. The sources ought...
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...VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Name: Institution: VARK Learning styles: Read/write learning style Overview of the read/write learning style The read/write learning style mainly makes the use of printed words to receive and convey learning information. Using the style enables one skill to become the input of another through the transfer of the ability to read to that of writing. The skills transfer is integral in raising the awareness of how the structural components involved in learning are shared in both reading and writing modalities (VARK, 2016). One of the reasons a leaner may choose to embrace the read/write learning style is because it facilitates cognitive concept mastery since it brings out the aspect of making sense of what is read through fixing it in memory by writing it down (Crawford, 2005). Therefore, the method strengthens the learning quality by incorporating both the senses of sight and touch. Pointed out herein is how personal reading/writing strategies compare to the VARK preferred read/write learning style strategies and how the awareness of the individual learning style (read/write style) influences teaching and learning. Preferred learning strategies for read/write learning style * Identification of the item or subject that require a study. * Development of learning goals and questions or hypotheses with regard to the subject of study. * Identification of the sources from which the study will derive concepts from. The sources ought...
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...“The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” How does this Sherman Alexie essay compare to the Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X essays we read earlier in the semester? What implications does Alexie invoke with his use of the Superman imagery? In comparing the three essays, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, to “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass and “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X, one immediately recognizes that all three authors place high importance on the value of reading and writing. When one has the ability to read and write, one has the ability to achieve many goals. One also has the ability to make a difference in the lives of others and society. In “Learning to Read” by Frederick...
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...John Arnold Ronald Lapp, Instructor English 101 Section 1067 11 January 2016 Frederick Douglass: Learning to Read and Write Frederick Douglass’ perseverance in learning how to read and write was amazing. He was a slave with no possibility of becoming a free man. He would be chastised and punished over the mere possibility that he might be learning, so Frederick discovered other methods of educating himself. Douglass described his mistress, his master’s wife, as being an inherently good person at first. She was a very charitable woman who treated every human being she encountered as an equal. She began teaching him the alphabet but soon stopped at her husband’s demand. It was illegal to teach slaves to read or write, the penalty for which could be very harsh. Douglass explained that after she ceased educating him she became assimilated into the lifestyle of slave ownership. This manifested itself in many ways, including Douglass being reprimanded if found loitering in a room alone. He would be accused of reading books which was strictly forbidden. While this treatment would deter most people from pursuing an education it only hardened Douglass’ resolve. His thirst for knowledge would not be quelled so easily. Learning to read presented many challenges for Douglass. When he was twelve years old, he got a copy of a book entitled The Columbian Orator. The message of the book was one of liberation. A slave ran away from his owner three times, and when the third attempt failed...
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...Malcom X: Learning to Read conveys the message that literature can provide one with inner freedom through escaping from the harsh realities of life. This is exhibited as Malcom X proclaims “months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.” Through literature, he was able to forget his struggles of being imprisoned. Malcom X was an illiterate prisoner and was frustrated for being unable to articulate himself clearly through his letters. To resolve his frustrations, he learned to read and write by copying pages from the dictionary onto his tablet. With every page he copied he learned about people, historical events and broadened his word-base, which enabled him to...
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...“Learning To Read” from Malcolm X, is an autobiography surrounding his life and inspiration to read and fight for justice for the African American culture. He was first inspired to learn to read in prison when he found one of the inmates, Bimbi, was able to control much of the conversations due to his huge base of knowledge. For Malcolm X, uncovering his ancestor’s past and discovering the truth of his origins was one of the important pieces for bringing justice to the African American culture in America. For so long, he was led to believe that African American history could be summed up within a paragraph in a U.S history book. While many other people wrote that “Africa was the only continent that produced no history”, however, this only brought to light the truth of how the white man really was in history. For me, I was dismayed at first at how ignorant Americans can be to other cultures, yet I understood everything Malcolm X was saying when he described the white men as hypocrites....
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...Learning to read and write by Frederick Douglass is a text that I was recommended to read by a friend but I never got the chance but I am glad that I got to do so. I enjoyed reading learning to Read and write because Frederick was able to learn how to write and read in an environment that did not give him the right. After reading his story I have learned that we take being literate for granted and I am thankful that I am literate. I have also learned that being courageous can give you the strength to complete your goals and aspirations. As for Douglas he was a slave and he was lucky enough to his owner's wife Sophia to teach him English but after his owner found out he prohibited Douglass from learning how to read and write and so Douglass...
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...Learning to Read and Write by Fredrick Douglass and Why I Write by George Orwell both talk about what it means to read and write. For Fredrick Douglass, reading and writing means knowledge or the ability to understand what is happing in the real world. In Learning to Read and Write Douglass writes, “This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.” Using a metaphor Douglass compares the value of bread to knowledge, which helps the reader understand how important it was for him to learn how to read. Since he is saying that the “bread of knowledge” he was receiving was more valuable than the bread he gave to the kids. In addition, for Douglass to read and write also...
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