Reading Rockets Week 10

I read "How to Help an At-Risk Child http://www.readingrockets.org/article/how-help-risk-child

Three important ideas/things from the lesson today are in order to help at-risk children, parents should seek prompt, appropriate intervention for any ongoing difficulties, such as language or hearing problems in the preschool years, introduce a comprehensive, high-quality program of early reading instruction, and practice close monitoring for any signs of reading difficulties in the early grades so that these difficulties may be addressed as quickly as possible, but the most important thing I learned today is knowledgeable teachers and first-rate pre-service teacher preparation are vital for providing children with this kind of instruction.

Reading Rockets Two

I chose an article about dyslexia. "Clues to Dyslexia in Early Childhood" http://www.readingrockets.org/article/clues-dyslexia-early-childhood

Three important ideas/things from the lesson today are clues can include trouble learning nursery rhymes, complaints or aversions to reading, and persistent baby talk and mispronounced words, but the most important thing I learned today is  the inability to learn to associate letters with sounds, such as being unable to connect the letter b with the "b" sound

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Chapter 7

The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein

Can you give me a summary of this book?

Who is the main character?

What is the problem that the main character faces?

What do you think the problem is caused by?

In the end, what happens to the main character?

How did the main character solve its problem?

Using the character trait words given on page 187 of the textbook, can you describe the main character?

Use that same list to describe the “perfect piece”?

The BEST word to describe the main character is:

An example from the book The Missing Piece that shows this trait is:

Chapter 6

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Week 8 Reading Rockets

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/top-10-things-you-should-know-about-reading
 I chose the article: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Reading By: Reading Rockets.

I found this article to be very interesting. Three important ideas/things from the lesson today are that thirty-three percent of American fourth graders read below the "basic" level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test, difficulties in decoding and word recognition are at the core of most reading difficulties. Poor readers have difficulty understanding that sounds in words are linked to certain letters and letter patterns. This is called the "alphabetic principle", and What preschoolers know before they enter school is strongly related to how easily they learn to read in first grade. Three predictors of reading achievement that children learn before they get to school are:

• The ability to recognize and name letters of the alphabet
• General knowledge about print (understanding, for example, which is the front of the book and which is the back and how to turn the pages of a book)
• Awareness of phonemes (the sounds in words)

, but the most important thing I learned today is as many as two-thirds of reading disabled children can become average or above-average readers if they are identified early and taught appropriately (Vellutino et al., 1996; Fletcher & Lyon, 1998). These facts underscore the value of having a highly trained teacher in every classroom.

Week 7: Course Activity and Readings

Chapter 6: I will use the following questions to help Miss Judah in her reading comprehension of The Giving Tree. I am planning to focus on the main ideas, themes, problems, solutions, and feelings of the characters in this book. I think that these elements would be easily identifiable in such a book. I am hoping that these questions are grade-level-appropriate, as our textbook states. I am hoping that this will also help Miss Judah to understand the larger ideas/themes that are going on in this text and help her to identify the feelings of the two main characters involved in it. I think that some of these questions do sound a bit challenging and hope that together we can work through the answers and she can gain full comprehension of the story.

LESSON

1.       What lesson does THE TREE learn in this story?

2.       The lesson in this story is:

3.       At the beginning of this story, the tree was

a.       Here is an example  

4.       At the end of the story, the tree was

a.       Here is an example

TITLE

1.       Another good title for this book would be:

2.       This is a good title because the text is mainly about:

3.       Here is a detail from the book that shows this:

FEELINGS/Characters

1.       Using information from the story, write a brief description of how the tree felt when the boy took things from her.

2.       When___________happened, the tree felt_____________. The tree showed this by:

PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS

1.       How did the boy solve his problems? Give a detail from the story to explain.

2.       The boy’s problems in this story get solved when:

3.       Here is one specific problem that was solved:

CHARACTER CHANGES

1.       How did the tree change from the beginning to the end of the story?

2.       At the beginning of the story, the tree:

3.       At the end of the story, the tree:

4.       Here is how the tree changed (give a specific example from the story)

Chapter 4:  “Three important ideas from today’s lesson are talking about ideas is a great way to develop reading comprehension, collaborative work is essential in this comprehension process, and being sure all classmates are involved/no one is left out helps to build a culture of collaboration, but the most important thing I learned today is that collaborative work is more relaxed and it is not as scary to participate with only a small group.

Chapter 5:  “Three important ideas from today’s lesson are that great answers always reference the text in a specific way, identifying a reading strategy helps students in their assessments, and an idea must be elaborated upon in order for the reader/teacher to understand it fully, but the most important thing I learned today is that a longer answer is not necessarily a better answer.