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Elementary Classroom and Reading Aloud

In five pages this essay discusses the importance of oral reading for elementary school students in a consideration of how it impr...

Learning Comprehension

in that they know what the purpose of learning how to read is. Children do not necessarily equate a pleasant purpose. There are m...

Annotated Bibliography: Summer Reading Programs Impact

This 7 page paper gives an example of an annotated bibliography on the impact of summer reading. This paper includes issues like s...

Reading Text: Electronic Versus Paper

This 5 page paper gives an explanation of reading electronic text versus reading hard copy text. This paper includes studies about...

Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities

phonological skills would be stronger predictors than exception words (Griffiths and Snowling, 2003). They also hypothesized that ...

Reading Assessments

This model is more commonly used because it considers the complexity of learning process and the variation in factors that can inf...

Grabbing the Attention of the Reader

two distinct arguments of the death penalty issue and this would be an adequate introduction. But the development of a more varie...

Queer Reading Analysis of John Logan's Never the Sinner

A queer reading of this text by John Logan focuses on character presentation and motivations in seven pages....

John Fante's Book Ask the Dust

of whats going on in his own emotions, as well as a narrator of whats going on in the outside world, rather than someone who is pu...

Reading Success and the Importance of Phonological Awareness

In twenty one pages this paper discusses success in reading in a consideration of the significance of phonological awareness with ...

Reading and the Importance of Comprehension

In five pages this paper which is written for a Back to School night teacher and parent audience examines the significance of read...

Reading Disabilities

regarding a definition of RD that is widely acceptable (Siegel and Smythe, 2005). Researchers have not been able to agree on defi...

Phonological Awareness

as this allows understanding to develop. In their 1982 study, Wolf and Morris discuss "Tony" a young boy who demonstrated both ex...

How Gustave Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes Thematize the Effect of Reading on the Imagination in Madame Bovary and Don Quixote

saving lives, and he was - in her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. ...

Why Kids Should be Read to

at an early age (Lynch, van den Broek, Kremer, Kendeou, White, & Lorch, 2008). There are links between comprehending what is read...

Reading Instruction and Phonological Awareness

This essay pertains to early reading instruction and the importance of phonological awareness. Three pages in length three sources...

The Lament of the Businessperson 'I Don't Have Time To Read Novels!'

The importance of reading creative literature for business professionals is considered in this essay of 4 pages. The problem-solv...

Phonics Usage and Reading Instruction

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of phonics but also emphasizes why educators should be open to other approaches ...

John Donne's Feminist Poetry

This paper details a feminist reading of three John Donne Poems, The Undertaking, A Valediction, and The Good Morrow. The author ...

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Power in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper examines how power is portrayed by Wilde in his poem 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and in the plays A Woma...

Opening Section of Part III in Toni Morrison's Beloved Analyzed

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

Classroom and Software Reading Programs

child in my class use this program with minimal support?; Is the program developmentally appropriate?; What can a student learn fr...

Decoding Skills and Reading Comprehension Teaching of Adolescents

from written texts based on a complex coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information" and is considered as "the m...

Educational Progression Among First-Grade Students

This paper addresses reading ability among first-grade students as demonstrated by the case of Janice Herron, a first-grade teache...

Reading and Research Literacy

constructs were analyzed. The model, which combined letter identification, phonological awareness, and rapid naming, was identifie...

Rereading America by S.B. Heath and Gary Columbo

Trackton, that power has become constrained due to the atmosphere in which the residents find themselves. Their way of assimilatin...

Reading and My Love of It

is characterized by Dostoevsky as something of a scoundrel, someone who manipulates emotion, and who is primarily concerned with g...

Washington Elementary School

the proposal. It became part of the districts strategic plan as an indicator of success. The board supported this goal with $500,0...

Fluency Activity to Aid a Struggling Reader

by Dr. Bear to indicate where Noah paused and for how long, one slash for each second and after waiting 3 seconds I supplied the w...