The strands making up the word recognition portion of the rope are phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition. These are skills that should become increasingly automatic. The most common problem encountered by students who are struggling with reading is difficulty with phonic decoding and accurate word recognition (How Children Learn to Read, p. 6). Research indicates that phonemic awareness and letter knowledge are incredibly important in learning to decode. A student’s inability to identify the sounds in a word as well as blend them to form the word’s pronunciation may lead to multiple attempts to pronounce an unknown word, thus decreasing both the student’s reading speed and comprehension (Hudson, Pullen, Lane, & Torkgesen, p. 10).
I think that reading is where most students have trouble and this is where they slip through the cracks at school. Some teachers don’t want to deal with it so they just push the child through. I think that what really needs to be done is that teachers need to take the time to help these kids. They need to make sure they understand the work. They need to make sure the stuff is age appropriate for their reading ages; doing this will help a child to succeed at reading.
Therefore you would need to try and make it more engaging and stimulating, perhaps by making it more difficult or time-consuming so the students really have to work to complete it. If the activities are taking longer than expected and you can see that the children are struggling, things again would need to be addressed and changed. Without evaluation the learning activities things would never change and learning would become incredibility boring. We all need to reflect on learning to make improvements for a better learning environment for children and young adults.
With homeschooling, the parents are the ones teaching their children, so they know their progress, strengths and weaknesses. Bittner explains that there are numerous problems with testing and that teachers actually have a problem with it. There is such a frantic need to teach children everything that will be on a standardized test that learning is almost disregarded. If any material isn’t on the main test then it is not taught. The author point out that critical thinking is not on a test so it is overlooked by routine memorization.
and Jones H. (2002) p249 write specifically about children who have English as an additional language. They state that: “Children who speak English as a second language may need more encouragement and support when undertaking writing activities. Assistants and teachers should be aware that they make lack confidence and need to have more time to think about the task” Pupil B: This child found it difficult to understand the rules of the game, thus needing lots of reinforcement and explanation in order to support him. In order to make ‘Pupil B’ feel part of the group I asked the whole group to participate in recalling the rules of the game and break down each step. I also suggested to the class teacher that in future activities there may be pictorial instructions to help and support children understand the rules of the game.
The young beginner These students lack motivation to learn the language but they tend to pick up the language easier than older students. The choice to learn the language is made by the parents rather than the student The beginner without the Roman alphabet Without an alphabet that includes the letter’s A through Z, this student will need help with initial literacy skills. A great deal of reading and writing practice is needed. Task 2 – How would you as a teacher adapt your approach to beginner students? If I was confronted with a class full of beginner students I would need to alter my approach to teaching.
However, academically one of the “MID” students is reading at a kindergarten level. Therefore their IDEA eligibility determination documentation is based in part on their present levels of academic performance. Behavior characteristics are also weighed heavily in making an eligibility determination between Mild, Moderate and Severe. Typically, Down Syndrome children are very stubborn and determined to do things the way they perceive something should be. It requires a variety of teaching strategies to overcome undesirable behaviors in the classroom.
Moreover, the author claims that although children usually use abbreviations, they seldom use it in their exams. The reason is children do not want to get low marks because of these abbreviations. Dite claims that texting is harm to English literacy. He believes that texting makes children use abbreviation in homework and exams as a habit. As a result, children could fail their exam or could not find a job in the future.
Promoting Literacy and Comprehension The ways of traditional teaching are a thing of the past. In today’s classrooms teachers are working hard to find new and exciting ways to engage the students, promote learning, comprehension and writing. However, even with the stimulating activities and lessons students will continue to ask the same question, “Why do I have to learn this? When will this ever be a part of real life?” Teachers must be prepared to explain to their students exactly how math, reading, science, and history will all be a used outside of a classroom setting and in the real world. For example, teachers should shine light on how studying algebra actually develops stronger problem solving skills and leads students into a deeper level of thinking.
It focuses on using the Bottom up technique as discussed earlier which has proven its effectiveness over and over already. It connects the students background knowledge with the current information and this is the bases of understanding and learning. However schema theory is not perfect as it relies heavily on the students background knowledge and this can be problematic if the teacher does not understand the socio-cultural background of the students. "Thus, rather than attempting to neutralise texts, it would seem more suitable to prepare students by "helping them build background knowledge on the topic prior to reading, through appropriate prereading activities" Carrell