I am reminded of my influence when my 2 year old and I read a book together. ... Then, when alone, she uses "private speech, or language used for self-guidance " (Berk, 2013, p. 275; Rolland, 2005) while playing the roles of mother and toddler reading the book together, which is both delightful and insightful for me to observe. If I were to give her a more advanced book, then I would need to scaffold her learning of new words and images. ...

• Word Count: 2328
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

., children cannot learn to read without an understanding of sounds. They must know the alphabet and the sounds that letters make in order to communicate verbally. ... The sounds should not be taught as a separate "subject- with emphasis on drills and pure memorization. ... The understanding of sounds of many children will arise from their interest, knowledge and ideas. ... There are many opportunities to teach the sound that makes a letter when children want to know. ...

• Word Count: 2309
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This book tells about his life growing up in America, and it tells a lot about the discrimination he dealt with growing up. ... This book is good in helping non-minorities understand what minorities do go through, and it helped me understand some of the different things they endure. ... The word minority is sometimes used to sound like a bad thing. ... I think his book did a good job of portraying to the reader how it actually was for him and his family. ... Through reading this book I understand somewhat more of what minorities in our country have to go through. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He uses digestion as an analogy to reflect the worthlessness of book knowledge. ... What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... Throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais emphasizes what seems to be the theme of the book: "know yourself."" ... As a matter of fact, Montaigne begins his entire treatise by emphasizing that "I, myself, am the subject of this book- (3). ... Although Montaigne does feel that many could learn from his own experiences, he does not intend this as the primary purpose of the book. ...

• Word Count: 2020
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. ... This could be something he expands more on in later chapters, but for now I feel that he made it all sound so simple to implement. ...

• Word Count: 2250
• Approx Pages: 9

This learner thinks in rhythms, sounds, and patterns. ... Creating songs to help them memorize things that were in their lesson or even allowing them to create a book report to a song melody. ... Musical learners obviously have the ability to produce and appreciate music, they think in rhythms, sounds, and patterns. ... They are sensitive to all sounds they hear, especially what they hear in t...

• Word Count: 2052
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The early experiences in reading were filled with questions about what word is pronounced what way and why certain arrangements of letters sounded the way they did. ... Rather than having the teachers spit useless interpretations of the book at us, we were given the task of interpreting it for ourselves. ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The peach sloshing in her mouth made the perfect sound. ... Masumoto's dad posses a drive to work and a deep believe in the value of perseverance this has always defined him, all the intensive hours and hard work took it's toll on him one night when a massive stroke strike him in the fields, the stroke landed him in the hospital in a coma that could of lead to a vegetable state in the book Masumoto makes a really interesting analogy he compares his dad with a vegetable and he said this might be a better since they work in a farm anyway they are used to taking care and nourish a vege...

• Word Count: 1918
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate