The challenges of helping English Language Learners succeed academically is profound. Culturally and linguistically diverse students need to develop academic English language…
The article “Tyranny of Tradition: How information paradigms limit librarians’ teaching and student scholarship” by Carrie Donovan and Sara O’Donnell, goes into deep discussion of the traditional paradigms for education changing and how it is impacting the learning of students. The article discusses how everyone is entitled to a higher education and one of the main principles of higher education is democracy. Democracy focuses on the actual content of study and how the instruction is delivered. I believe that if students were to learn in the socratic method of instruction, which allows them to question and have their own opinions of things, they will succeed in democratic society. Critical thinking is a necessity for democracy because…
Kucan, Linda, and Isabel L. Beck. “Thinking Aloud and Reading Comprehension Research: Inquiry, Instruction and Social Interaction.” Review of Educational Research 67.3 (1997): 271–99.…
c. Which approach was effective? Why? Trial and error was more effective because I have learned instead of getting up hours earlier to get myself and my children ready I will prepare everything the night before such as their clothes and diaper bags and the things that we need to take with us.…
In responding to a range of texts, pupils show understanding of significant ideas, themes, events and characters, beginning to use inference and deduction. They refer to the text when explaining their views. They locate and use ideas and information.…
Pay attention as the author cites his own difficulties with reading and that of others who find problems with their ability to read and absorb. Sadly much of our reading has become “skimming and scrolling.”…
In Chapter 2 “Reading: Making Meaning” Chaffee focuses on the idea of understanding, what you are reading. Therefore, in order to be productive reader, you should put all your concentration to the text, and also think critically. Moreover, author also mention, that effective reader should pay attention to the details, that you think not necessary, but after reviewing them it will help you to get full understanding of the text. For example, table of concepts, introductory paragraphs and concluding paragraphs, headings, illustrations, and different tables. Additionally, Chaffee states, that often critical readers in order to analyze the text use a problem-solving approach. Through the chapter, author bringing our attention to metacognitive…
A students engages with the details of text in order to respond critically and personally…
In this lesson, I focused on Jace, the second grader. I was able to hold a small group lesson in her classroom so that I could be able to assess her literacy ability first hand when it comes to critical and response perspectives. I learned of the idea of a tea party from Tompkins and decided I wanted to create a lesson that would involve this great activity (Tompkins, p. 272). The intent of the tea party was to use the critical perspective as well as the response perspective (Laureate Education, 2010). In this lesson the learners will be able to better understand the text and it should play a role in the learners’ lives in a meaningful way. The use of metacognitive strategies helps the students to think about “thinking” all through the reading process. This lesson demonstrates ways to implement the these perspective (Laureate Education, 2010).…
All reading instruction should serve the purpose of increasing comprehension (Lane, 2014). The mental process of comprehension begins before a child starts to read and continues throughout the entire reading process. The role of the educator in teaching comprehension is to model, share, guide and apply strategies whilst gradually releasing the responsibility onto the child. This begins with the educator demonstrating and explaining strategies, then scaffolding and encouraging the child to participate, practice and apply the strategies across all curriculum areas (PTSD, n.d.). According to (Department of Education WA, 2014) comprehension strategies are explicitly taught to emergent readers to develop their understanding of texts. Examples of these strategies are previewing and summarising. Previewing encourages children to make predictions about the text; it can also pique their interest. Children taught to summarise, can learn to determine the essential ideas within the text, intern furthering their comprehension skills (Department of Education WA,…
Comprehension Strategies Essay Write an essay of 750-1,000 words in which you describe strategies to develop activities that facilitate comprehension of narrative, expository, and poetic texts. Use the GCU Library to identify three to five peer-reviewed articles that address research-based practices. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a grading rubric.…
Often these arguments are contextualized based on ones culture or traditions, the reflections will have a close perspectives based on their personal background. Conversational learning focuses on working with others in order to reach an understanding. One’s “ability to negotiate meanings and purposes instead of passively accepting the social realities defined by others” (Mezirow, 1991, p.96) creates a deeper understanding and ability to conceptualize both long-term and short-term…
This video is discussing a technique that can be used to help students with the 5th pillar of reading, comprehension. The teacher in this video is modeling how to do a think aloud to her students. The teacher explains how she stops at every heading to predict what will happen in the next section and reflect on what happened in the section they that was just completed. She also explained how helpful illustrations in text are to being able to figure out what is happening in a text. The teacher expresses how important it is to model technique first, so that all students have an example of what they are expected to do when they are using the technique independently. The think aloud strategy being used in this video is a great way for students to be able to improve their comprehension.…
Steffensen, M. S., Joag-dev, C., & Anderson, R. C. (1979). A cross-cultural perspective on reading comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly, 15, 10-29. EJ 210791.…
References: Critical literacy as comprehension: Expanding reader response, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Date: September 1, 2004.…