Therefore, I expect the participant, Michelle, to perform better in the narrative texts. ... On the second day, the exact procedure was followed with the expository texts. ... A clearer view of these results is shown in Figure 1, where her listening comprehension for both texts is high (level 3), her oral reading comprehension for both texts is high (level 3), and her silent reading comprehension for the narrative text is high (level 3), but it changes slightly with the expository text, where her silent reading comprehension is average (level 2). Her performance didn't alter wi...

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Related Objectives • read a variety of texts and analyze their rhetorical situations (i.e. context, audience, and aims) • write papers with a clearly developed thesis and support designed to appeal to various audiences and contexts • read for various purposes Outcome 4: Rhetorical Strategies Students will read and write a variety of nonfiction expository and argumentative genres. Related Objectives • summarize, analyze, respond to, and evaluate print and digital texts • compare and contrast various genres, including essays (academic and popular), lit...

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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. ... In my classroom, I will be reading fiction, nonfiction, narrative, and expository texts. ... K-W-L charts are great to get the students brainstorming, especially when non-fiction texts are being used. ... I will teach my students how to use their schema to create new ideas and answer questions they may have about the text. ... Th...

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If you're from the American south, you may feel that you share a unique bond with other southerners. Traditions, values, speech patterns, and even favorite foods bind them together in a way that "outsiders"" may find hard to understand. Pulitzer Prize winning contemporary author Rick Bragg builds upon the powerful legacy of other southern writers, such as Eudora Welty and William Faulkner, but with a style all his own, making his real-life stories of growing up poor in Alabama poignant and often humorous. Rick Bragg is an extremely gifted writer whose works have acquired a universal audie...

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