...have I ever said that I was staying in to read a few chapters of my Judy Moody library books. I threw books under my bed in effort to not read the books. This method was my way of ignoring literacy. Unlike, Eudora Welty, a southern author of, “One Writer’s Beginnings” whose mother read many of books to her at even the youngest age of 2. My mother wasn’t always free to read to me, and I didn’t learn that reading was a necessity as a child. My mother was a single mother, the stress of having bills going to work and only a little over a 5th grade reading level herself reading...
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...he could read those great big dinosaur names and match them to their pictures. I knew this was not normal. That’s why I hid his books whenever we had guests. At 3 1/2 he was reading ingredients on boxes in my grocery cart and telling me which ones we shouldn't buy. People would look at him funny, so, I did my best to leave him home whenever I had to go to the market. When he was 4 and reading high school level books, my cousin, the public school teacher, told me public school would ruin him. I didn't listen. I honestly thought for some reason that they would love to have a kid like this in any school. Until...The first day of kindergarten when the teacher requested that I have a talk with him. He was reading all the words that were up on the walls and he couldn't write his name. She didn't want the other children to feel bad that they couldn't read like him. Then she asked me to tell him not to be so lazy. She thought that since he could read so well, he obviously had to be able to write his name. I listened and did as she asked. My son's first school lesson was that he was bad because he could read and that he couldn't write his name. Later that year, he wanted to take his medical book in for show and tell. I said "no" and handed him a toy instead. He went to school in tears that day. At 5 1/2 he was answering questions on Jeopardy and for a long time only my husband and I knew this. In the first grade, he couldn't sit still in reading class. Back then I wondered...
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...when I first began going to school, I joined school and I began attending Pre Kinder. At that time in age, I knew nothing about letters or numbers. I can say I barely knew my name and how old I was. The first day of school began with a simple introduction on learning how to write my name. I can still remember how difficult it was to spell out my name! Man it was hard. I remember walking into class that scary morning and meeting a lady who would change my little world forever. Her name was Mrs. Guevara. She was an angel in my eyes. Mrs. Guevara’s lessons were fun and educational. She taught us many songs, for example the ABC’S she taught us the vowels and how to pronounce them. At first I would get so frustrated for not being able to pronounce them properly, but over time I was able to accomplish that....
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...writer/ reader I am today? I would have to say I went through a lot of stages of writing and reading because some years I liked to read and write but other years I didn’t like it. I liked reading short stories, poems, and nonfiction books but I didn’t like historical stories, research, or long books. I’ve never a finished a book until high school because I never found a book I liked considering I never tried since I didn’t have an interest in reading. Although, now I can say I like to read if I find the right book when i use to say that i hated reading. The youngest I remember writing was in 6th grade when I would write letters to my dad. I wrote letters to my dad after my parents got divorced since I didn’t get to see my dad from it. My letters would be about how much I missed him, how school was going, and how things were different. I wrote...
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...September 1, 2015 Reading Response #1 The Article On Being 17, Bright, and Unable to Read is an article by David Raymond. At the age of 17 Raymond got diagnosed with Dyslexia which made him unable to read. Before knowing he had dyslexia he always believed he was just dumb. He was constantly teased for not being ableto read and talk as well as the other kids in his class. Because of being constantly teased in school, he complained of wanting to die. With the bad reports from school and the constant worry of not having friends and wanting to die, he finally went to his mother and father for help. That’s when he was diagnosed. As he got older and went into higher levels of education such as Junior high school and high school, things started to get better for Raymond. He started to get more confident with himself and began to deal with his dyslexia better. David Raymond wrote the article which appeared in the New York Times (1976) to encourage parents to and teachers to know when you see your child having trouble in school don’t count it as being lazy but it could be something else. One quote that stood out to me in the article was on page 79. The quote says “The only thing that gives me any courage is the fact that i’ve learned about well known people who couldn’t read or had other problems and still made it”. I liked this quote in particular because no matter how much Raymond struggled and wanted to give up, he still kept hope and he still tried no matter what obstacles got...
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...Strategies Tyrone D. Ward COLL100 American Public University Linda Eckert Reading Comprehension and Strategies "Why can't Jonny Read"? This question was asked or resurrected back in the back in the1980s. A gentleman by the name of Rudolf Flesh did a comprehensive and in debt study on this issue. Mr. Flesh realized that the United States had a very high illiteracy rate and major reading problem and how television had a major effect on an individual’s reading ability. He surmised that, television instilled learning of memorization by word association. Remember Sesame Street. His answer the issue was phonic or phonetics, with the understanding that comprehension would come later. Remember Hooked on Phonics. In America today, most children are beginning or trying to talk around the age of two years. This is a time when language skills are just starting to develop. Even though it usually too early of an age to expect a child to read, there is no reason why the parent cannot start the reading process by reading aloud to them. Instilling reading into a child’s life can prove to be one of the most valuable skills that they will ever learn. (http://www.mannmuseum.com n.d) William and Johnson conducted an experiment to test a hypothesis or theory as to whether perceptual skills training will enhance reading performance of adolescence in school age children. As a basis for their study these adolescence where placed into three experimental groups of different categories...
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..."Why can't Jonny Read"? This question was asked or resurrected back in the back in the1980s. A gentleman by the name of Rudolf Flesh did a comprehensive and in debt study on this issue. Mr. Flesh realized that the United States had a very high illiteracy rate and major reading problem and how television had a major effect on an individual’s reading ability. He surmised that, television instilled learning of memorization by word association. Remember Sesame Street. His answer the issue was phonic or phonetics, with the understanding that comprehension would come later. Remember Hooked on Phonics. In America today, most children are beginning or trying to talk around the age of two years. This is a time when language skills are just starting to develop. Even though it usually too early of an age to expect a child to read, there is no reason why the parent cannot start the reading process by reading aloud to them. Instilling reading into a child’s life can prove to be one of the most valuable skills that they will ever learn. (http://www.mannmuseum.com n.d) William and Johnson conducted an experiment to test a hypothesis or theory as to whether perceptual skills training will enhance reading performance of adolescence in school age children. As a basis for their study these adolescence where placed into three experimental groups of different categories. They are as follows: 1st. Remedial reading instructions, 2nd Reading instructions with spatial skills training and 3rd untreated...
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...talks about his first time in many years teaching a freshman course in college. Saying that some freshman are often absent and are not responsible. He compares teachers from high school and professors at college. Also he gives advice that you have to listen and take issue of documentation, be responsible. I agree and disagree with some points of Keith Parsons. Some points are true about freshman, college, and high school, but other points are not true. One of them, which I agree, is when he states that teachers in high school used to teach us with the same routine of a test preparation. This essay will demonstrate why Parsons is correct. When I was in high school, one of my teachers used to use the routine of reading a chapter and answer the questions. It was the same thing almost every day. She didn’t teach us, we had to learn it ourselves. Every day was the same thing, there was no other routine, yet I thought that we could do projects and learn better while interacting with other student, instead of just read and read. Another teacher from high school did teach very well! I really liked that science class. But when it was time to take the state test (STAAR), I didn’t expect to have questions that we didn’t even knew about. But because I tried my best and work hard to pass that test, my result was that I did passed the test. Teachers should not just focus on preparing us for the all-important tests. They have to know if their students are actually learning. They should give...
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...age don’t like to read or write. I say don't the authors make reading and writing interesting. Because I think kids would see the fun in reading and writing plus at the time kids would be gaining knowledge and having fun at the same time. First, do you know these kids out here on the street because they dropped out of school as soon as they could because they can’t read or write on the skill level they were supposed to be on. And kids were probably got bullied and teased. The reason they probably didn’t find the fun or interest in reading and writing. People these days that drop out of school always go out on the street and selling dope trying to get paper. And they would get shot, like a policeman did to Michael Newby and got shot coldblooded. Secondly, if kids these days would read and write more they could achieve a goal once in their life. They would be proud and would feel good about themselves knowing they could achieve something in life. And another thing if your parents tell you to read just do it because you’re gaining more knowledge and it’s fulfilling your mind not theirs. And they tell you to read because they love you and want you to live a better life. I know that reading and writing is not fun but the authors could make books that maybe you like sports or music. Or maybe in school whoever makes that writing prompts make them on something you would like to write about. Not all this boring stuff they are doing these days. So why not why don’t we ask kids...
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...“I know why the caged bird cannot read” is an essay by Francine Prose that examines the way America’s school system teaches literature to high school students. Her purpose is simple, to teach our children better literature in a more meaningful way. Prose believes that the disgustingly repetitory and plain way novels are being taught to American high school students doesn’t prepare them for college nor challenge their minds to see beyond the obvious. They’re given books and asked the same questions over and over. Instead of learning new styles of writing, high school students are learning how to perfect one specific style, in turn making writing more procedural than creative. In no way does our current school system challenge student’s minds....
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... First, I would love to introduce myself; my legal name is Kimberly Rose Thomas, but people call me Kim for short. I am a thirty-two year old. My birthday is Valentine’s Day. I grew up in Sterling Heights, Michigan. I was adopted at the age of ten. By two of the most loving and caring parents, anyone could ask for. Their names are Rick and Vicki Sabaugh. I went to Cousino High School located in Warren, Michigan. I was on a swim team for twelve years, mastering the butterfly. My first year of high school, I made most valuable player on the team. Swimming was and is my passion. I made some outstanding school records. While I was at a swimming meet, competing, I blew out my knee and shoulder. All of my doctors told me...
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...PROFFESSOR; AUDREY. L. VAUGHAN AUGUST 16TH 2015. Even though we search how to solve the problems of illiteracy, illiteracy is a serious problem in pour society today because illiteracy causes high rate of unemployment, high crime rates, health issues and loss of talents inbuilt in our youths leading to low self-esteem. Illiteracy is a pressing concern especially for poor countries, it affects all other aspects of life and personal behavior of the uneducated one. There are several causes which may lead someone to be uneducated or to escape from school. In this essay I will discuss some causes of illiteracy and its effects on our society, and how we can treat it. Illiteracy is a global problem we are facing in our society today of which it greatly affects all our day to day life activities. I will first start with the problem unemployment in which one of the reasons for this is the high illiteracy level in our society. Unemployment is a situation where youths and the general population are unable to get jobs to meet up with their day to day responsibilities and bills. When people are not able to read and write they are greatly handicapped educational wise there by causing them not fit for the job market. Illiteracy still on the same side of the coin cause low self-esteem among youths who are less educated causing them fill inferior to their fellow educated youths. But we...
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...Huang Dr. Logan English 300 online 25 June 2015 All We Need Is a Push Writing has never been an easy subject for me. Lt alone the fact that English was not my first language. Back in my old country, even writing in the language that I was growing up with was no so easy for me either. At the younger age, I could never understand, why would people take a simple idea and expand it into hundreds of or even thousands of word. To the younger me, it was just like telling a same idea to someone over and over again. As I grew older, now that I am looking back, I realize I was just being lazy. Like I was to everything else in my life: always try to find a simpler and faster solution to a problem. If there was anything my high school English teacher has taught me that I would remember for life, that is, just like pretty much everything else in life. To be able to write a good piece of paper, it will require a lot of hard work. Unlike the teachers from my old high school, my English teacher of the high school I was graduated from, Mr. Roger has a lot more experience dealing with ESL student. Because of the district that our school was in. There are a ton of students that came from many different country around the world, which gave our school more change to get more experience on dealing with different level student. Not only Mr. Roger’s balded head and face that full of beard draw student attention to him, but the way he teach class also get our attention easily. He always like...
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...The Lack of Early Childhood Education in Minority Neighborhoods Gildon R Turner AIU Online Abstract This country prides itself in being a better place for people to come and work better and to get a better education. We are falling far too short on both counts more so with education. We are still not separated and equal. This paper will talk to you about the differences in the minority neighborhoods and why our government should be taking a closer look at the lack of early childhood education and how this education is an investment into our future. The Lack of Early Childhood Education in Minority Neighborhoods Early childhood education is an investment in our future. Haycock, K (2011) stated that, “In minority neighborhoods there are less early childhood educational facilities and if they exist low-income and minority students are less likely than their white and more affluent peers to have the teachers with the proper academic background to teach the subject matter they are teaching”. Due to the shape of the economy at the present time, it is even harder for minority children to receive this type of education. Most are one parent families and are not making the money it would cost to send their children to a good head start program. “So when black and Latino twelfth-graders perform at about the same level as white eight graders, it is not just a “minority” problem; it’s a national problem...
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