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Teaching Reading

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

Fast ForWord Scientific Learning Software

as "b" and "d." It has long been known that "b" and "d" have presented young learners with difficulty, and for years it was belie...

Language Testing from Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives

differ. Any form can be instrumental in returning lower-than-optimum scores on language tests. Teachers sensitive to the c...

Children with Down Syndrome

are smaller than average (Hunter, 1999). Their arms and legs are also shorter in relation to the rest of their bodies, and hands a...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Article Analysis: An Unconventional Use for Standardized Tests

Therefore, the researchers must demonstrate the purpose of their study through arguments that support the use of standardized test...

Muhammad Readings

the religion itself. The Prophet and the True Beleiver Sayed Ameer Ali In this essay we are obviously provided with the disti...

An Analysis of Three Communications Articles

must learn to use the written word in manner considered appropriate by a "particular speech or discourse" community (McCarthy 234-...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

Literature and the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

seen in any other character in the novel. He began to see that he was different, and not human. Then he came upon a bundle that...

Reading Disabilities and Exceptional Children Interventions

events and the relations of those events. This simultaneously gains insight into the brains representation of language and into t...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Reading Instruction and Theory

travel comes up in the story, teacher can think out loud about what kind of travel mode that might be, using the picture as a clue...

Reading and Research Literacy

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

Results of a Student Survey on Nonverbal Communication

Total 50 100.0 100.0 The majority of the respondents were Caucasian (80%), with only 1 Hispanic respondent. Ethnicity Frequ...

Reading Levels and Education Research

of whole language instruction, however, is that many children have difficulty moving from totally free self-expression to masterin...

"Bridging the Gap Between School and Home Using Children's Literature"

to read under the covers while at home or while in a classroom with the lights darkened just for the occasion. "Flashlight Friday...

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

SIM Test Strategies: Literature Review

students. There are four conditions that must be maintained within this group: 1. "Both group and individual needs are valued and...

"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"

However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...

Identifying Terms

she first illustrates that bean counting was something that President Bill Clinton referred to and perhaps defined, for the purpos...

Phonological Awareness

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

Reading Fluency

read aloud together (Welsch 180). This strategy actively engages the learner for a longer period of time in oral reading than the ...

How Technology Affects Middle School Student Reading Achievement: A Field Experience

of technology to expand learning, especially in the area of literacy. In particular, this experience will seek to assess both tes...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

Phonological Awareness and Reading: The Process of Language Acquisition

a part of the construction of spoken language. Specifically, phonological awareness if the conceptual view that spoken language c...

Close Readings/Darker Face of the Earth & Oedipus

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

Teaching Reading in Special Education

difficult to discern whether systematic feedback, metacognitive knowledge ... or the combination of feedback and metacognitive kno...

Reading Disabilities

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