SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Assessing Adult Literacy

Essays 121 - 150

Where is God When It Hurts? by Philip Yancey Summarized and Evaluated

In five pages this inspirational Christian text by Philip Yancey is summarized and also assessed....

Academic Article Publishing Suitability

In seven pages this student supplied case study assesses an academic article's suitability for journal publishing....

An Article on Literacy Reviewed

the entire article and the question is specifically: "What do teachers in our schools value in literacy?" (Dadds, 1999, p. 9). Thi...

Criteria Determining Quality of Life

and healthcare, needs that are obviously directly related to things such as longevity. What many fail to realize, however, is tha...

Information Literacy in Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership

For students to be adequately informed about the value of the university library and resources such as the Internet in information...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Literacy Case Study

he reads words quickly regardless of whether or not he is reading them correctly, never stopping to self-correct. Furthermore, his...

Literacy Instruction: Short and Long-Term Goals and Programming Perspective

around reading and writing, allowing for authentic achievement of literacy. Reading research has made considerable advances durin...

Preschool's Impact Upon Child Recognition of Letters

the preschool curriculum and offered proof of the harm this could do to children (Nel, 2000). Elkinds studies showed that formaliz...

Literacy and Texting Technology

skills. One drawback the study noted was that "although oral reading fluency is a commonly used measure of proficiency [in literac...

Is New Software Negatively Impacting Students' Effectiveness as Readers and Writers?

Indeed, the world suffers from a monumental overpopulation problem that is at the root of many of todays educational problems. Th...

ICT Literacy and Programming Instruction

and communications technology, such as the World Wide Web, e-mail and video conferencing (Curtin University, 2003). The term can...

The Use of Technology in Education

life skills orientation to those that reflect the need for early literacy learning. In many cases, activities are reflected upon ...

Significance of Information Literacy

found on the Internet is accurate. As researching a topic using a Web browser is simply a matter of using a handful of keywords, t...

Overview of DIBELS

following paper offers a brief overview of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), identifying its charact...

A Literacy Initiative

to address early intervention services and literacy at the Pre-K level in order to improve performance outcomes. Standards ...

King's Theory/Diabetic Retinopathy

on very real problems. As Mrs. Jones poor vision is due to diabetic retinopathy, strict glycemic control is crucial in order to sa...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Whole Word Instruction

is an abstract concept that can be interpreted many different ways. The whole word method stems from an understanding of literacy ...

Writing Strategies to Aid a Kindergartener

scenario indicates that the student researching this topic has been assigned to help Hector with this learning task. The scenario ...

Popular Culture, Cinematic Violence, and Media Literacy

to the family, children, political leadership, and sexuality" (Wee, 2006, p. 50). Links have been discovered between these violen...

Article Analysis: Literacy in Young Children

ability to understand, leaves them dependent on others for information Struggle in school and work to hide inability read Cann...

Three Typical Social Problems

for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...

Instruction Design Document on U.S. Military and the Education of High School Students

class given for one quarter of the school year where students learn how to work the computer, surf the Internet and so forth. Fami...

Second Grade and a Literacy Program Based Upon Multicultural Literature

In nine pages in which an abstract is also provided this essay examines the development of grade two literacy in a consideration o...

Grades Seven through Twelve and Literacy That is Literature Based

materials are deemed important for student interest as well as student ability. The program includes teacher resources, such as s...

Second Grade Literacy Teaching

In seven pages this paper discuses inner city schools and the various approaches for teaching literacy to second grade students. ...

How a New Teacher Should Teach Reading

a time (Torgesen, 1998). Letter-sound knowledge can be measured by presenting one letter at a time and asking the child what sound...

Four Blocks Literacy Framework Adoption and Change Management

test is administered each May. Boiling Springs has always received a rating of excellent on the school report card. This ended i...

Intellectual Development and Don Quixote, The Mali Epic of Son Jara, and The Epic of Gilgamesh

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Multicultural Classroom and the Effects of Involvement by Parents on Literacy

Many of these students are described as limited-English proficient (LEP) students, and many teachers current lack the skills and l...