81). Ambrose and Corn (1997) further define "functional vision" as vision that can be used to derive input for planning and performing tasks; the extent to which one uses his or her available vision is referred to as "visual efficiency." Reading Sk Continue Reading...
Test 1: Kindergarten Readiness Test, Second Edition Acronym: KRT Author: Scholastic Testing Service, Inc. Date: 2006-2015 Grade/Age: Preschool, Pre-Kindergarten, Immediately after Kindergarten enrollment Category: Developmental Purpose: Determining & Continue Reading...
Education Readings All three articles are scholarly because they were written by professional educators, mostly professors at the university level, who carried out statistical studies of the reading abilities of students. One of these studies used a Continue Reading...
Standards Annotated Bibliography Loveland, T.R. (2005) Writing standards-based rubrics for technology education classrooms, Technology Teacher, Vol. 65, Issue 2 This article can be used in the proposed writing study because it presents informatio Continue Reading...
Companies such as XYZ Widget Corporation are well situated to take advantage of burgeoning markets in developing nations, particularly in Asia and Africa. 2. XYZ can grow its business by expanding its operations to certain developing nations in way Continue Reading...
" Shin (2006) Shin also states that the CMC literature "illustrates shifts of focus to different layers of context." Early on, research relating to CMC in language learning and teaching looked at the linguistic content of CMC text to examine how lang Continue Reading...
Recovery The Reading Recovery Program -- Analysis The Reading Recovery program is an intervention informed by research that seeks to expedite learning and lowering the writing and reading failure rates among learners that fall in the lower 20% wit Continue Reading...
Teacher Reading Summary Effective Reading Teacher's Summary Literacy is described as the capacity to utilized reading and writing for varied types of tasks both inside and outside of the classroom. Reading is defined as a process that is complex i Continue Reading...
Debates can be formulated for and against with evidence presented that supports one side or the other. First written down, these arguments can then be presented in written and oral forms, thereby reinforcing English usage in two forms: written and o Continue Reading...
Phoneme, Phonics, And Sightwords as They Relate to Reading Acquisition In Orangeburg Consolidated School District Three, there is a failure to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals, mostly in the content area of ELA on the state mandated test. U Continue Reading...
Academia and Life Through Literacy and Reading Comprehension Literacy and reading comprehension are subjects that have been explored for decades. Through these explorations we have discovered that comprehension is an essential component in the abil Continue Reading...
Standardized Testing: The Good, Bad, and UglyToday, high-stakes standardized testing in the nations schools is commonplace, and the practice has been used in American schools at some level for more than 175 years. During this time, standardized tests Continue Reading...
AbstractMany if not most young people not only enjoy reading, they want to improve their skills so that they can read at higher and more interesting levels, especially with respect to topics that are personally relevant for them. While the process of Continue Reading...
With online classes, the internet has become important in effective writing because of the sources that it provides. The Internet is gaining popularity in second language teaching while reshaping computer mediated communication in language learning Continue Reading...
The Title I reading instructor will become familiar with the Plato Learning content library. The Title 1 reading instructor will begin supplementing classroom instruction with the mini classroom lab using software from Plato Learning. Title I rea Continue Reading...
Edmark and Reading Matery One of the greatest challenges for any educator is dealing with a student with reading difficulties. However, a number of different programs exist to deal with the different forms of comprehension difficulties such challeng Continue Reading...
One counterargument to the practice of teaching vocabulary is that children learn the meanings of many words by experiencing those words in the actual world and in text without explicit instruction. Unfortunately, such incidental learning is filled Continue Reading...
achievement of African-American students in civilian public schools vs. African-American students in the Depart of Defense (DOD) school system The methods section of this dissertation provides the rationale for the proposed study based on my hypothe Continue Reading...
Gender Issues in Education Today The objective of this study is to examine gender issues in education today and to discuss its impacts or potential impacts on individuals and society. This study will examine how this issue has been addressed by phil Continue Reading...
School Health Education HEALTH THROUGH EDUCATION Comprehensive School Health Education Kolbe's Expectations Dr. Lloyd Kolbe lines up the expectations of a school health education. These are: increased understanding about the science of individual Continue Reading...
history from 1865 to the present day. To focus the research, select six subtopics (specific events or developments related to the topic, separated in time); three from before 1930 and three from after. Immigrants There are more than 50 million imm Continue Reading...
Racism Time changes everything; reading these two pieces of work reminds the author of that fact and so much more. Both The Welcome Table, by Alice Walker, and the poem What it's Like to be a Black Girl, by Smith speak out of the dust of the past to Continue Reading...
Clickers/Responses Phonics Lesson Phonics Long Vowel - Silent e Lesson Plan for Special Education Objectives: Students will recognize and say words that follow the c-v-c-e and v-c-e rule where the first vowel is a long vowel and the final e is s Continue Reading...
subtests (e.g. learning areas): Fluency, Rate, Accuracy, Oral Reading Index, Comprehension. Describe the age range: Ages 6 through 23. State the purpose of the instrument: This test is created to denote the strengths and weaknesses for readers, as Continue Reading...
Teach to the Test As William Hatfield presciently warned in 1916, when the ultra-efficiency of industrialization first begin threatening the independence of educators to craft curricula, "an education that focuses on memorising information to ensur Continue Reading...
The researcher maintains that the positives that were seen with text-based foreign language learning conducted in the aforementioned study would produce results that were similar with older students as well. Dlugosz argues that communication-based l Continue Reading...
The curriculum should be research-based. They can collaborate and share viewpoints with stakeholders to diversify their knowledge. They should pose as leaders in designing, implementing and assessing professional advancement programs. Reading speci Continue Reading...
ADHD and Reading Difficulty Learning Disabilities The Nature of the Relationship between ADHD and Reading Difficulty The Nature of the Relationship between ADHD and Reading Difficulty There is substantial evidence showing a strong association be Continue Reading...
Wanna Be Average," written by Mike Rose. Although each of these writers has a very different writing style, both essays deal with similar issues about the educational experiences of young boys growing into men. Five main areas will be discussed: ass Continue Reading...
By this time, had a quite a bit of confidence because I had already written a successful speech. In addition, I was very excited about the speaking opportunity and spent many long hours preparing for the presentation. I noticed that my writing was i Continue Reading...
children learn how to read at the same pace. However, the parent does have some cause for concern. As Kelly & Campbell (n.d.) points out, "studies indicate that when students get off to a poor start in reading, they rarely catch up," (p. 1). The Continue Reading...
This is the goal of struggling readers. A dependent reader takes only a peripheral interest in the text. He gives it the minimum of his attention and approaches it only because he is forced. It is as though he is reading against his will and fightin Continue Reading...
Attitude-Influence model of reading involves teaching good attitudes about reading in an effort to influence how children feel about the reading experience. Attitude was chosen as the most important component of the model because it plays such a stro Continue Reading...
Michael Krause has written a new book that provides eight sales strategies that are supposed to help increase sales, engendered a more motivated sales staff, and help sustain both. The eight strategies are: USP and UVP; Strategic planning; SWOT analy Continue Reading...
Solutions to incorporating fluency instruction in the classroom include repeated reading, auditory modeling, direct instruction, text segmenting, supported reading, and use of easy reading materials. Young readers may not always know what fluent rea Continue Reading...
standardized achievement tests and diagnostic tests. Standardized tests are usually administered after the material has been taught, and they are used to determine whether or not the class has successfully met the district and state standards. The Continue Reading...
OCR recognizes that colleges and universities are under a lot of legal and political pressure to stop using racial and ethnic factors in admission," Clegg commented. "[In response,] the agency wants to intimidate colleges and universities to contin Continue Reading...
"One problem with achievement testing is that a few minutes of performance time can end up directing a young child's entire educational career." (Schmitz 1991) When tests are administered to young children that take extended periods of time to compl Continue Reading...
Curriculum and Instruction Compare and contrast the bottom-up curriculum and the top-down curriculum. Discuss instructional objectives, materials, learning environment, instructional strategies, and assessment. The top-down belief system related to Continue Reading...
