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Elementary School Students and Reading Comprehension Skills Increasing

In five pages this research paper examines such strategies as POSSE in a consideration of how to increase the reading comprehensio...

Children and the Impacts of Reading Aloud to Them

In eight pages this paper discusses how children are positively affected by reading aloud to them. There are more than 12 sources...

Bilingual Reading Tools and ESL Instruction

In five pages this essay discusses teaching English as a second language in this consideration of issues and bilingual reading tec...

Learning Reading and Phonics versus Whole Language Approaches

In nine pages this paper discusses how to teach children how to read in an assessment of the strenghts and weaknesses of phonic an...

Lesson Plan for First Grade Recognition of Words

(Adams, 1990). Quite the opposite. For example, Chall said that instruction in skills was essential for many children: "The resear...

Student Literacy and Literature

In eight pages this paper discusses how student literacy can be significantly improved through a strong literature curricula with ...

German Astronomer Johannes Kepler

In eleven pages this paper discusses Johann Kepler's life and scientific contributions. About eight sources are listed in an anno...

School Censorship is Wrong

The idea that schools can tell children what they can and cannot read violates first amendment principles. This point is highlight...

Napoleon as Seen by Felix Markham

This paper provides a reading of Felix Markham's book, Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe. This five page paper has no addition...

An Epistolary Novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways in which the novel's format represents a series of letters that have been written ...

Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...

A Critical Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

to her writing to make a living. She also received a small stipend from Shelleys family against his inheritance. Mary spent the ...

Faulkner, Hemingway and Hawthorne's Strategy

Readings are taken from three works, The Sound and the Fury, The House of the Seven Gables and A Farewell to Arms, in this paper w...

Child Development as Presented in Harry Potter, Pokemon and the Iron Giant

The writer argues that many things can be learned about child development by reading the Harry Potter books, and by viewing the mo...

Comparing Three Passages of Shakespeare's "King Lear," All Outakes From ACT I (I.i.85-93), (I.iv.106-126), and (I.i.148-159),

This comparison paper involving "King Lear" determines the patterns that arise when the passages are read next to each o...

Nature and the Poems of Emily Dickinson

This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...

U.S. System of Government and Political Psychology

This essay consists of four pages and discusses the nature of man within the context of the political system of the United States....

Article Assessment of Smart et al's Study on Behavioral Problems Associated with Reading

In six pages a 1996 article featured in the Journal of Child Psychology by Smart et al on reading and behavior problems is evaluat...

Gas and Electric Utility Industries Automatic Systems of Meter Reading

In fifteen pages the increasing trends of employing the technology of automated meter readings in the gas and electric utility ind...

Socrates as Seen Through the Eyes of Plato and as Presented in Phaedo, Protagoras, and Meno

In three pages this paper discusses how Socrates can be studied by reading the dialogues of his most famous student. There are no...

Paul Laurence Dunbar and Phillis Wheatley comparing the Work of the Two Authors

Although Paul Laurence Dunbar was born nearly a century after Wheatley's death, the two authors share common traits other than the...

An Exploration of The Unities

it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Short Poem #1755

apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...

Reading and the Acquisition of Language Acquisition

In four pages this report discusses language acquisition processes for children and the applies those to reading educational proce...

Them by Joyce Carol Oates

In five pages this paper describes what the writer personally enjoyed about the text and what value can be gained from reading it....

Teaching Strategies for Reading Comprehension

In seven pages this paper presents a literature review on various elementary school teaching strategies for reading comprehension....

Chestnutt: A Close Reading of The Web of Circumstance

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

Analysis of a Passage/Charles Chestnutt

Circumstance," the author changes the narrative perspective twice, using three perspectives in total. A close reading of this pass...