Essays on Reading

The literacy skills of the typical American teenager have not improved since the 1970’s but the demand for literacy skills have increased dramatically. Struggling in reading during the adolescent age not only affects reading but other classes throughout education. Literacy challenges of adolescents’ demand strategies to increase success across the curriculum. Why do adolescents struggle…

According to “Explaining Phonics Instruction: An Educator’s Guide,” word study is defined as an “approach to teach the alphabetic and pattern layers of the writing system by including spelling instruction that is differentiated by students’ development.” When teaching word study it is important to provide your students with opportunities to investigate and understand the patterns…

English is one of language that we need to be mastered at nowadays beacuse english is the most common language in this world, that is why learning english is really important and all people all over the world are learning english as their second language. Because of those reasons so english has been taught in…

For family literacy night, one of my topics would be early literacy. The reason I have chosen early literacy is because its development begins early in life and is highly related with school achievement. If a child get limited exposure to literacy at an early age, the more likely he or she will have difficulty…

Comment and Response to Texting and Writing by Michaela Cullington After reading Texting and Writing, by Michaela Cullington, I do not agree with many of her viewpoints. Cullington argues that texting does not affect a students writing. Textspeak, the abbreviation and shortening of words like used when writing a text message, does affect the way…

The text under analysis belongs to the pen of William Somerset Maugham. the one of the best known English authors of the twentieth century. He was non merely a novelist. but besides one of the most successful playwright and short-story authors. He was born in Paris in 1874. His parents died when he was really…

Reading Comprehension In any interaction with a text, the text is pretty much useless unless the reader can comprehend the meaning of that text. Since narrative, expository, and poetic texts all have different reasons for being written, and different forms of presenting the text, different strategies are needed to comprehend these texts. There are also…

ASSIGNMENT ONE FOCUS ON THE LEARNER 750-1000 words For this assignment you are going to write a report on a student in the TP class you are teaching now. As a practicing teacher, you will at times have to write reports on students for various reasons, e. g. passing on information to a colleague, providing…

The major characteristics of my preferred learning style is working in groups with others or working alone where I can be by myself, somewhere peaceful. I prefer to work visually. Writing things become boring to me, so I have to do little drawings, or visually see what something is for me to understand it better….

Often times when one reads a piece of literary work, the way that its’ themes and storyline are interpreted is truly dependant upon the reader’s individual beliefs and morals. The same passage from a novel or poem can be seen in completely opposite perspectives from two different readers, despite the fact that they contain the…