Abstract: The traditional way of teaching reading affects the students' reading ability. ... Reading Speed 2.1.2. 2.1.2. Reading Quality 2.1.3 .Reading Thought 2.2 .The available approaches to improve the students' reading ability while teaching reading .In view of the primary factors , this part gives some effective measures and suggestions that can help to improve the students' reading ability. 2.2.1. ... But it also does relate with our traditional method of teaching reading. 2.1.1.The Reading Speed The traditional way of teaching reading is based on the classical read...

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Malcolm started from being illiterate and ended up by being an intellectual person through hard studying and determination .He used to memorize vocabs from the dictionary and understand them and then write them down on his tablet to repeat this process every morning with new words,and could stay all night reading books under low light to satisfy his curiosity.His prison education made him work more for saving the blacks' rights that were aggrieved by the whites. ... I agree Malcolm that determination and person's will to change or to do something can make him achieve his goal.And ...

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Readings consider issues of contemporary and cultural concern. ... Related Objectives • understand the conventions of common academic writing (such as reading responses, blogs, listservs, message boards, academic arguments, rhetorical analyses, synthesis essays, and reviews) • analyze discourse conventions in professional and civic contexts • select evidence appropriate to the context to develop a claim and support • organize papers effectively • practice grammatical revision to produce readable, effective Standard Written English (SWE) Outcome 6: Cit...

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In order to explore these particular ideas regarding education several readings will be utilised. ... Manning Clarke's reading "The Ordeal" is also to be examined, along with Charles Dickens" play entitled "Book the First Sowing" and J.D Salinger's reading called "Teddy." ... He later believed that "some things were just too painful to talk about to anyone" (page 13). ... The teacher character in Charles Dickens" reading bases his teaching primarily on facts. ... This reading contrasts greatly to that of the Dickens" reading, as it investigates the ide...

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After reading the assigned articles and Edward Deci's book, I feel inspired to change my life for the better. I feel that for anyone looking for inspiration the readings would be very helpful. Ways to create meaningful change are scattered throughout the readings. ... Because of the readings, I have the knowledge knowing that I hold the keys to my own success. ... Later in Why We Do What We Do, Deci says, "Determine what other events or circumstances might decrease intrinsic motivation "(31). ...

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Later, Ben received reading glasses and his grades dramatically improved. ... Then they spent time going to the library, reading books, and then writing a report on what they read. ... Ben's mother was a foster child who married at age 14 to a man who later married another woman. ... Later, when he began to write books and well after 260 rejections, Victor still he kept on going. ... And like Ben Carson in "Gifted Hands," he learned to value his strength in reading books rather than attending lectures. ...

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In the late eighteenth century Americans decided to take action. ... One century later education is still one of America's top priorities. ... Reading, Writing, Math, and computer skills will be very useful for graduate school With not yet chosen a profession in what I seek as my life goal. ... "The very act of working to pay for each volume seemed to quicken one's appetite for reading it, a principal that probably applies to a student who has to work for their tuition." ...

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In the late eighteenth century Americans decided to take action. ... One century later education is still one of America's top priorities. ... Reading, Writing, Math, and computer skills will be very useful for graduate school With not yet chosen a profession in what I seek as my life goal. ... "The very act of working to pay for each volume seemed to quicken one's appetite for reading it, a principal that probably applies to a student who has to work for their tuition." ...

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Throughout my own high school career I had the privilege of reading all three of these controversial books and to restrict others from reading them is an outrage. ... While reading controversial books, certain experiences are presented to them. ... As a matter of fact "the past eighteen months have brought a sharp increase in attempts to censor and ban books from schools - at least triple the number reported in the late 1970's- (Banning 6). ...

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It was interesting that if a man was summoned and was late in arriving he had toabstain from flesh and wine for as many days as he shall have been proved to be late in coming?. ... Throughout the reading there is an intertwining of church and learning. ...

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Book Review A Lesson Before Dying A Lesson Before Dying was written by Ernest J. Gaines. The novel takes place in the late 1940s. It is about a man named Jefferson who witnessed a shoot out in a liquor store. He is the only survivor so the town automatically assumes it was his fault. He is sente...

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Previous generations were required to learn the basics: reading, writing, math, science, and history. ... Students fifteen years of age were ranked fourteenth in reading, seventeenth in science, and twenty-fifth in math (Koebler 1). ... Seth Baker writes that students in South Korea typically go to school for eight hours, then they go to another institution, called a "hagwon," for private tutoring until no later than 10:00 P.M. ... Reading and math skills are not assessed on paper until then, but the average student has the same teacher for five years, so the teachers are aware of how each stu...

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How can reading works such as Romeo and Juliet encourage teen sex? ... By reading books like The Most Dangerous Game, students can learn to assess the true value of life and grasp the fragility of the tightrope of humanity. ... Students need an opportunity to learn how to love reading books. ... However, if schools censor certain books, no student will learn to love reading and will not experience the encouragement that comes from the stories found between the pages of a book. ... Truly, though, studies prove that reading can lead to more enriching and fulfilling lives. ...

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A parent of a child in school when reading this then would question their own child's experience in school. He later goes on to say, "I teach you how to accept confusion as your destiny... Adults who go to work everyday are given pay raises or slaps on the back for good work, the adults who are late to work and do a poor job are yelled at or worse fired. The same is for children in school, late for school you get a detention, on time to school you get five more minuets of free time. ... Gatto does a very good job at making the reader comfortable with what they may be reading. ...

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Granda when she was my ESOL 4902 instructor at Nova and later learned from a mutual friend and MDPS employee and Mrs. ... On the perimeter of the classroom (the wall) are stations, one is a reading station with books organized and labeled according to difficulty, and bean bags for them to sit on; next is the computer center which is made up of about six workstations and a flip chart with the children's names to show who sat their last and who's turn it is next; also there is a listening station with audio tapes and equipment to hear passages from their reading books. ... Granda'...

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He overcame a childhood of slavery and illiteracy to become the most prominent educator and leader of black Americans during the late 19th and early 20th century. ... As I began reading Washington's autobiography I became rather intrigued with the language and tone he uses when portraying his life as a young boy during his hard times of slavery and thereafter. ... Upon reading further I began to understand that Booker T. ...

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So many of our youth are below reading and math levels, are not able to comprehend, or are not able to read at all. ... Later in my college career, I began to take courses in childhood education and child development. ... I was accepted into the Urban Teacher Scholarship program and became directly involved in reading instruction for a class of 25 students during the summer. ...

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Many students find school unnecessary and a total waste of time. They don't see the value or privileges of getting the chance to go to school. I believe that students should be required to go to school five days a week for many important reasons. One reason is that school usually leads to a more suc...

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Students have the advantage of looking up information for reports and essays much quicker than reading through numerous textbooks. ... Teachers should always post their rules of Internet usage on the bulletin board or in the front of the classroom to avoid any student later saying, "I didn't know I couldn't do that!" ...

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By the time you finish reading my essay I hope you will understand my philosophy in education. ... After the confidence has built up then that student will continue to use the learnt experience at a later time in life. ... This consists of worksheets, reading, etc. ... After reading my philosophy in education; I hope that it has opened at least one door. ...

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A part of a child's biological makeup may be a difficult temperament he is born with, malnutrition, a disease, a brain tumor, substance abuse, or brain or biochemical dysfunction all which can cause the child to have an Emotional Behavioral Disorder, and later cause him to be at risk. ... It was found through different studies that children identified as being at high risk of failing out of school who went though the high/scope intervention program, and where able to construct their own understanding later preformed better academicly, were more successfull in business, had better marria...

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Little did they know it was too late, Douglass says, "Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell" (144). ... After getting a hold of a book entitled "The Columbian Orator" Douglass writes, "The reading of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery but while they relieved me of one difficulty, they brought on another even more painful than the one which was relieved. ... Reading this document not only gave him literacy skills but ...

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Literacy is more than the ability to read and write; it's also the ability to understand what you"re reading and make sense in what you"re writing. ... A literate person can read books and papers and learn information which they may use later. ... Frederick Douglass's literacy made him aware of what was going on around him with slaves and abolition, and that helped make him a free man later in life. ... As far as I am concerned, I am already successful, and if I continue down the track I am on, I will come out with the same success later in life that I have at this point right now...

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Our administration often states that your first altercation will result in a suspension and later a pre-expulsion hearing, and your second offense will result in total expulsion from Delaware Valley. ... My expectations after reading to you this essay, is that you'll look at how you treat other students or teachers and handle situations differently. ...

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When reading Neil Postman's books, the reader notices that most of his ideas could be put together to form different ideas. ... With every new technology entering our world, we start wondering just how this would later impact our society, culture, consumer market etc. ...

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