At this point, I think it depends on what are your reading interests and how reading meets your interpretation skills to be understood or to get you involved on its field. I have always been a thinker, but throughout my coursework, I have sharpened my critical analysis skills and I like to read more books than I did before. First time that I started to read it was in my first grade. I was so excited at the time and I felt like a hero. My first teacher, Luljeta, was a big help to put me in the track.
My English is so poor; I want to improve my English. First time, I avoided classes that involved a lot of writing, as I was still intimidated by past failures. But when poor writing began to affect my grades in other courses, I decided to take a composition class. Now, I use my On Course textbook in my English class, this journal will help me about self-awareness. I began to see how negative scripts could cause problems.
My Writing Experience My writing experiences have been influenced by my parents and the teachers I had in middle school. Mr. Smith was my 7th grade teacher in the year of 1985. I was a nervous child from a troubled home. Believing I was the only kid in the world with a terrible home life of parents fighting and unpredictable outcomes were routine, I had a hard time getting into the groove of each learning day with Mr. smith. We came from a small town in, Elyria, Ohio and I was the youngest of four children.
In Ransinski web seminar relating to the topic of fluency, he mentions how around the country reading fluency is defined as teaching children to read fast. On the other hand, Ransinski disagrees and believes that fluency is the bridge to comprehension, and that it is the deeper structure of language which ultimately means meaning. He also believes that students should be able to dive deep in to reading and break through the surface structure for a student to understand the full meaning of a text. Even if you considered the five components of reading which are; phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development, and reading comprehension all of these components deal with fluency. In order for a student to master fluency they must be able to master the five components of reading as well.
Notes also make you get organized and things start to make more sense than before. Note taking contain the five R’s which are Record, Reduce, Recite, Reflect and Review. The notes you will drop down will become a study aid, an external memory device and an instrument to aid in review and recitation. I have learned to write legible, summarize, use bullet points, clearing indicate main points, and concentrate better using notes. What I learned is that while your teacher is giving a lesson always looks for words like: “the most important thing”, “remember to” “put a mark on” and many more signal words Test anxiety is something that happens to many students.
Techniques such as annotating, asking questions that pertain to the reading and using acronyms can be used to aid myself when reading. Techniques should not be hindering me to read. Especially since there is a lot of reading, having the ability to color coat my reading can be extremely beneficial especially when reviewing before an exam. However, If I do not implement any techniques the only person I am hurting is myself. The “Engage College Reading” text book is giving me tools so I can be successful throughout my college
Internet helped William to enjoy studying and to focus. The program Quizlet stimulated all four objectives in learning language writing, reading, speaking and listening, which helped him transfer the material from his short term memory to his long term memory faster. As the data shows, his grades have improved. I also see the possibility of using assistive technology with students who don’t have disabilities to improve their performance. If I can gather more data and experiences, I can present results to the school that can impact school improvement, faculty development and student learning.
They have also presented that textbooks happen learners' needs of having something to work from and use it for homework for further study. In addition, they reason that textbooks supply a conglomeration of verities of resources such as: tapes, CDs, videos and so forth. On the other hand, the writers claim that ESL textbooks have effectively improved since one or two decades ago, the process of selecting an applicable text has become difficult for the vast majority of teachers. Thus, the authors explain the process of evaluating textbooks for use in the ESL/EFL classrooms. School teachers usually spend plenty of time using course books in their classes from around the world.
My mother read to me every night until I fell asleep. I can remember having dreams about the fairytales she read to me. My father let me pick a book out of the Scholastic paper I use to get every month at school. It didn’t matter how much the book cost he never said no. Welty said, “Neither of my parents had come from homes that could afford to buy many books, but though it must have been something of a strain on his salary, as the youngest officer in a young insurance company, my father was all the while carefully selecting and ordering away for what he and Mother though we children should grow up with.”(Welty, 391) I remember my father giving me his old Hardy Boys books when I was about eight years old.
Although high school students have history classes to learn about historical facts, learning it through literature gives students a new perspective on what has already been taught in a previous class. As said by Nancy Methelis, “The history books will give us facts, which we are told are true, but we know they are chosen for the particular text. It generally doesn’t connect in the same emotional way that a fictional work does” (Methelis). Reading Huck Finn gives students a greater understanding of how life was back when slavery was still accepted and common. Its historical accuracy makes it an essential book to be read and discussed in the classroom.