My experience and interaction in an early elementary classroom setting is not something that I can use as a building block for my teaching studies. ... Along with my copy of the book I had prepared a guide as to what I was looking for in Kara's reading* . ... Later in the book she read similar sounding words with greater ease after we discussed the "itch" sound. ... When difficulty arose with words that didn't have the "itch" sound I guided her through by asking her "What makes sense?" ... Kara successfully gave meaning to envelope, giggling, and picture by using the illustr...

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There are three main components of a balanced literacy approach; reading, writing, and word study. ... The reading workshop consists of a read aloud, shared reading, guided reading, reading conferences, and independent reading. ... Guided reading is next during the reading workshop, and during guided reading, I will select a text to introduce to the students while working on one of the comprehension strategies or concepts that they need to know in the first grade, such as character traits. ... Lastly, in the reading workshop, I will do literature study. ... The writer's notebook is a ke...

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The ability to translate words to other languages makes these applications ideal for secondary language study. ... Text-to-speech applications encourage independent study, thus allowing teachers to spend more time on group activities and to give students more one-on-one attention. Most TTS software runs on standard platform PCs and MACs, utilizing common hardware such as monitors, sound cards, microphone, and speakers. ... As classroom teachers learn to guide and support students in using ATs in support of an inclusive setting, the practicality of these systems as learning tools is exposing st...

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Students are measured by letter identification, word test, concepts of print, writing vocabulary, hearing sounds in words and text reading level. ... Guided reading is viewed as the dominant component of Reading Recovery lessons. It is during the actual reading of increasingly less predictable text that Reading Recovery teachers guide children to consider multiple sources of information in thoughtful and flexible ways as they monitor the child's reading and solves emerging problems. ... Throughout various studies and articles that were reviewed, I found that there are numerous advant...

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Therefore, it is necessary for us to study and research on the current way of teaching reading to get the effective and feasible measures to improve the students reading ability. 2.Body 2.1The Current Situation of Reading Teaching and its Disadvantages According to the syllabus, the teacher must give the students adequate reading practice to pick up their reading speed. ... It has something to do with the students' rudimentary knowledge and their study habits. ... As time passes, it is inevitable to formulate the indolent attitude and unidirectional way of study. ...

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