Chris Street wrote an original research article, “Expository Text and Middle School Students: Some Lessons Learned”, and tells us that middle school students face difficulty reading expository texts because they were not taught how to read in this fashion while in elementary school. While in elementary school, they read short novels and chapter books, whereas, in middle school they are expected to read content area text. According to this article, teachers can help their middle school students overcome reading deficiencies by developing a student’s former knowledge on a subject before reading it. Street provides very good strategies on how to engage students with expository text, which consists of: before reading, during reading, and after reading. Before reading strategies include developing
Literacy in My Life When I was young, my parents read to me a lot to help me read better for when I started school. Once I started school I was a pretty good reader but I was not very good with writing. The teachers would make us write all the time, and I thought it was useless. I am not a very good writer because I would choose to do the very least I could do to get by with writing prompts throughout my elementary and middle school years. In high school, I was worried about the writing test before and after I took the test.
I thought I was being a rebel but this was only hurting me, not her. My English teacher in the seventh grade was much better. She knew how to make reading fun by playing games and getting prizes for reading and writing activities. She would give us snacks and throw us parties when we did good on assignments and tests. I believe that I came out of that class with an A, all because of my teacher.
My attention flitted here and there” (Rose 160). Not only he didn’t pay attention in class, but he “fooled around in class and read my books indifferently” (Rose 160). Rose became incompetent because there was no level set by the teachers and the “Students will float to the mark you set” (Rose 160). During the course of the school year Mike narrates how he is being abuse emotionally and verbally by his so called “teachers”. Rose describes why and how his teacher abuse authority in him and on other students and he says, “When his class drifted away from him, which was often, his voice would rise in paranoid accusations, and occasionally he would lose control and shake or smack us”.
Sometimes in life we come across teachers that harm us more than help us in the classroom. In “Here Lies Miss Groby,” by James Thurber, the author talks about his experience in English class as a young man and how his experience influenced him. I will take you into Thurber’s experience of Miss Groby and shine a light on the flaws of her teaching. According to the author, Miss Groby loved taking a piece of writing and searching for small details. For him she should be alanguage teacher instead of literature teacher and she was completely unconcerned with the story but in actual she was concerned with the type of story.sheshould concerned with the meanings or deepness of the work but she was completely unconcerned with the meaning of the material and always keep focusing on its identification which annoyed the author all the time and he losses all of his interest for that subject .
Female teachers and the current situation forces boys to read books about women. Sports and activities especially for boys that are struggling with studying are declined III. The jobs market also influences the gender gap in college. Boys can get well-paid jobs without college degrees Girls have to get diplomas to make sure good jobs. Conclusion: Both boys and girls need to consider more when they make choices.
Why Children Despise Reading Prior to starting public school, the idea of reading and writing is exciting to many young children. Being able to communicate grammatically as well as verbally with others is an important milestone in a young child’s life. Because of this, educators are pressed to make sure their students are not shorted in their English education. However, according to John Holt’s How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading, the present conventional methods of teaching English are hindering children from enjoying the experience of reading and writing. Today, children view school as a “place of danger”, and their main focus is to avoid danger as much as possible (Holt 360).
Interpreting Annotating When a student at Boca High walks into Mrs. Boyle’s classroom, there are a variety of inspirational posters. But the one that drew my attention was a small picture of an old lady that said “annotating- ain’t nobody got time for that!” Sadly for us students, this is the case. Annotating a novel is not only tedious, but it takes away from the book itself. Additionally, it is time consuming as well as stressful on the already stressed out student. Annotation may seem like it has many implications, but those uses don’t outweigh the lessons and enjoyment of reading.
Kenny Pogue Pogue 1 Ms. Barro EN1223 2 Febuary 2015 Essay 1 Writing for Recess When I was in grade school there were several experiences that shaped my attitude and beliefs on writing. There was one, however, that stood out above the rest. The time my fifth grade teacher gave me a paper to write as a punishment. I was not very fond of my fifth grade teacher and had written some less than honorable remarks about her in my text book. As she walked by my desk, she noticed me writing in my textbook and asked to see what I had written.
Writing and I had this crazy type of relationship I loved to write but once it was a due date I wanted to procrastinate and never wanted to get it done on time but the problem was writers block. During my high school years it was a confusing time because I did not use the right grammar at the right time and my English teacher was a pain. She was a mean lady name Ms. Johnson who was hard on me because I had so much potential and I did not show it as often as I should of. Me not working hard enough as I should of I did not learn the proper tools in writing. 10th grade I had left my old to school to transfer to a new school and I had another teacher name Ms. Carroll who made my year a living hell.