The purpose of this study is to determine if a vocabulary intervention program on conceptual understating can substantially affect a students’ vocabulary knowledge. This particular study focused on elementary school students who are deaf or hard of hearing and who have trouble with decoding vocabulary and word phrases. The study is a single-subject, multi-baseline to … Read more
Helping students increase they fluency words per minutes (WPM) can have a variety of methods that can be used. One method that can be used to increase students WPM accuracy when reading is repeated reading. Repeated reading is when students read a passage multiple times (Vaugh & Boss, 2015, p. 227). Kim, Bryant, Bryant, and … Read more
Learning how to teach is difficult. Teachers go to school to learn different strategies that can be used within the classroom to help a variety of student needs. However, in the classroom, there will be students who more help with certain areas more than others. Those students could be assessed on numerous scales but the … Read more
For the Felicity of Reading – Jay Elliott It gripes me to say reading has not always been my favorite hobby, but writing (English) has never seemed to do much for me but that perspective has been adjusting as of late. Reading has been a favorite of my pleasures for most of my life but … Read more
The Benefits of Fathers Reading to Their Children: Tips for Fatherhood Programs and Dads Reading is an essential activity that is linked to children’s cognitive development, academic skills, and future employment opportunities. Children often become interested in reading by watching and mimicking their parents or participating in childparent reading routines. Although mothers have a big … Read more
I currently teach LD/EBD students at a 9-12 level. A lot of my students struggle with reading and read at lower level then their peers that are mainstreamed into the general education setting (most of my students read at a 4-6 grade reading level). The biggest struggles I see with them is their understanding of … Read more
In different countries, there are children that are illiterate. Some parents cannot afford an education for themselves or their children. In India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Brazil and other countries, three quarters of adults are illiterate. In fact, having the opportunity to read and write is beneficial towards one’s social and economic life. Being able to read … Read more
A Leap Reader is a product which allows children to learn how to read and write by sounding out words and guiding letter step-by-step interactively, designed by Leap Frog in 2008 (Frog, 2008). Leap Reader engages kids in imaginative stories with lively character voices while building vocabulary skills and increasing reading comprehension skills. Collaborative handwriting … Read more
“Animal Alphabet” by Ale Lluch “Animal Alphabet” by Ale Lluch is used to teach the Alphabet both capitalized and lowercased letters, reading, spelling, pronunciation, and associating words with their meaning. It includes animals in the book to associate letters with specific animals and how these animals are pronounced. The book has thick cardboard pages which … Read more
Do different types of church have different features from other and how scalar are they? Yes different churches have different features which make them unique to their name which can be their different practices, their setting or place of worship and the person they worship. Over the summer, I visited two different places of worship … Read more
This is an essay that introduces a new perspective to us to decode ancient visual arts. The author reminds us that there are other ways of decoding visual figures alongside the “Bagley method” so we need to undermine stereotypes in our minds in appreciating ancient Greek vases. Let’s first talk about “Beagle’s method”. The basic … Read more
Thomas Edison, the great inventors self proclaimed best invention of all time the Phonograph, also known as “The Talking Machine” is invented 1877. It original intent was for office use, entertainment, business uses and the telephone. Edison decides to mass produce the product like guns and sewing machines in his own factory. The Edison Speaking … Read more
Well, I actually didn’t pick It up, It was too heavy. It took me over two and a half months to read, but with the help of a dictionary and my grandma, I finally read It from cover to cover. I can’t really say that I understood It, because I don’t recall what It was … Read more
He mentions the tangible items the soldiers brought such as pictures, medicine, bibles, and other tangible sentimental items. O Brine spends the rest of the book writing about the non-tangible items that they carried such as, love, fright, cautiousness, and their dreams. The whole entire book is written off what they carried, each characters actions … Read more
It is a little boring to repeat one thing. It would be perfect if the author would balance the excellent analyses, which are in the latter part of the essay, with her theory. Moreover, the author herself has stereotypes that even she does not realize. Why does she only talk about wives and hetaeras? Are … Read more
Well, I actually didn’t pick It up, It was too heavy. It took me over two and a half months to read, but with the help of a dictionary and my grandma, I finally read It from cover to cover. I can’t really say that I understood It, because I don’t recall what It was … Read more