Four questions will guide this examination: What are teachers understanding of reading comprehension, how do they instruct reading comprehension and what strategies they use? ... - The responses varied from: The ability to read a passage and grasp it's meaning and then reiterate it to others. ... Teachers assigned, questioned, and told students about the content of their assignments, but did little to show their students how to comprehend and learn new information. ... - (Duke and Pearson 2002, p. 206) A random sample of teachers that I work with was asked to answer the follow...

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In most cases' students with special needs who are included are achieving at far higher levels than they did in segregated classrooms. ... In general, students with disabilities in inclusive settings have shown improvement in standardized tests, acquired social and communication skills previously undeveloped, shown increased interaction with peers, achieved more and higher-quality IEP goals, and are better prepared for post-school experiences. ... Low-achieving students also benefited from the review, practice, clarity, and feedback provided to students with disabilities. ... With the rec...

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Teachers should vary the materials used in the classroom, e.g. articles from newspapers on different topics, selected literary passages, texts from the Internet, advertisements, etc. ... The reading comprehension questions used in the Grammar-Translation Method can be very useful for working on the text furthermore and understanding the text more deeply. ... The other main difference is the question of translating. ... We can demonstrate with pictures or drawings because it might help those who are visual. ... The next difference between the two methods is the dealing with grammar. ...

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It also takes how my interactions with students have transformed the way I have been teaching for a long time. By the way, it would be apposite to mention that my purpose is here just to exploit the parameter of 'contact zone' to show how it helps me to resolve the crisis I experienced while teaching and interacting with my students. ... It also takes how my interactions with students have influenced the way I have been teaching for a long time. ... Finding them basing on solid ground of logic, I negotiated and hence included some stories from the regions in questions, ramificati...

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"The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punished for speaking Spanish, but that others say is a return to sanity" stated Don Terry in his article Bilingual Education Facing Toughest Test. ... With a lesser level of education, therefore, the children will not be able to quality for the better, high-paying jobs, that are available to the white population. ... Moreover, the Mexican communities and other opponents in California believe that Proposition ...

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