While I do not believe that Narnia exists, I do believe it exists and can be reached through a wardrobe while reading that book. In contrast, while most modern romance novels are set in modern-day, realistic settings, the events within them are so o Continue Reading...
Standardized Testing -- Students with ADHD The first study in an article in the Journal of Learning Disabilities by Frazier, et al. (2007) looks at the published literature (studies) since 1990 in order to produce a meta-analysis that will show the Continue Reading...
In college, students learn a lot about themselves as they socialize more and meet new people from diverse backgrounds. The student is pressured to develop his or her own identity in the midst of conflicting social messages. Because of the changes to Continue Reading...
Tools include grammar and spelling checkpoints and proper citations styles. Moreover, writing tutors are always available to help students perfect their writing and correct common errors. 2. Complying with the American Psychological Association's ( Continue Reading...
I don't grade the final draft in class, as I need more time to carefully read it and give it a rubric score (TIMELINE (http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/writingprocess/timeline.)" This is a valuable aspect of the writing timeline that t Continue Reading...
Teach Group of Students Who Have Never Learned English before, what would you do during the first three weeks? What would be the characteristics of the things you intended to teach? If your students made mistakes, what would you do? If they refused Continue Reading...
international student who has lived in the United States for two years. My first year in the States was spent at ESL school, during which I learned how to speak, read, and write English. Although I still have some difficulty with the language and am Continue Reading...
Foreign Student College Admissions Application am planning on transferring to an American university to further my education. I have lived in the United States for the past two years as an international student. Attending ESL school here opened me to Continue Reading...
Foundations Do you think this student might have a learning disability? Why or why not? learning disability is referred to as affecting acquisition, organization, retention, and understanding of information, both verbal and nonverbal, as gauged fro Continue Reading...
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 19 Continue Reading...
dramatic change in the American public schools' demographics due to the country's immigration peak; the highest in the nation's history. This is happening at a time when American schools are charged with the highest accountability level for students Continue Reading...
Vocabulary Acquisition in ESOL Students English as foreign/second language (EFL/ESL) classrooms widely neglected the area of vocabulary, until lately. Grammar lessons are founded on a collection of rules having coherent structure, expected to be rem 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...
Working with young people in an educational setting can be an enlightening experience, and one can quickly discover that most young students will do almost anything possible to please their teacher. This can be especially true in the elementary grade Continue Reading...
Recent reviews of research on summer school show that high quality programs can make a difference in student learning (Harrington-Lueker, 2000). Results of the research point to programs that focus on corrective or accelerated learning have a positi Continue Reading...
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...
grain of sand, hold infinity in an hour, - lines I read in a book of poetry, lines that play at the back of my mind as I begin to lay the outlines if this thesis for a Master's degree. I see the wonder in a child's eyes as he imagines a world unfol Continue Reading...
educate our children. As increasing numbers of affluent parents enroll their children in pre-school programs that offer more than just the traditional "play and supervision," but also provide early instruction in basics like reading and math, the qu Continue Reading...
vocabulary acquisition for a child, especially one that is not a native English speaker, who is trying to learn to read. The author mentions four "areas of instruction that teachers…demonstrated: comprehension, vocabulary, text structures and Continue Reading...
Philadelphia The five components of a reading program -- phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension -- build on one another to help students become readers. At a hypothetical all-African-American elementary scho 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...
(Reading for the 21st Century: Adolescent Literacy Teaching and Learning Strategies," 2004) 2. Alphabetic Principle-related Skills: This includes: "phonemic awareness, the ability to manipulate the sounds of oral language and phonics and the relati 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...
Literacy Short Assgts READING. Fadi Awwad My Reading Engagement Journal for Chapter 3 I already knew about the need for sensitivity to cultural differences in the classroom because I was raised in a devout Muslim home (that was also an American h 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...
Strategy, Assessment The language objective for my students would be to maintain a reflective journal about something they read during the week. This could a blog, a newspaper, a magazine, a book, an e-book, etc. The journal should be about what th 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...
(Fisher & Frey, 2003, p. 396) There is little that demands that all the instruction be given by a single teacher. In fact the supplementation of writing instruction directly from a teacher by a timeline program that guided progress of a package Continue Reading...
(Echevarria, Short & Powers, 2006) References Arriaza, G. (1997). Grace under Pressure: Immigrant Families and the Nation-State. Social Justice, 24(2), 6+. Borko, H. (2004). Professional development and teacher learning: Mapping the terrain. Continue Reading...
SOLOM The student observed for the SOLOM (Student Oral Language Observation Matrix) is a female sophomore in high school. Her native language is Spanish and her SOLOM score for the observation was a 20/25 with limited English proficiency. The obser Continue Reading...
They organized their needs, chose students to complete each step and worked on it until it was done. This activity benefited me in several ways. The first way is that I now know this activity is age appropriate. I also know that students this age a Continue Reading...
How Technology Enhances ESL Students’ Learning Experience Introduction In the COVID-19 era, education has taken a dramatic turn towards distance learning, meaning that virtual classrooms are now more popular than ever. But what is the effect of Continue Reading...
Improving the Writing Skills of Saudi Students in English-Speaking Colleges Learning a foreign language and using it to enhance a traveling experience is one thing, but using a second language for studies in higher education is truly difficult. Thos Continue Reading...
Early Childhood In "Emergent Literacy," Ruth Wilson claims that formal reading instruction "especially if introduced too early…can actually interfere with emergent literacy," (p. 1). The author bases her claim on personal observation with her Continue Reading...
