Introduction: When we first noticed David need some help, he was age three. I told myself it was normal to talk a little strange. At age three it is too early to tell. Getting help became a problem because finding the correct help or any help is tricky. Some people helped, but none helped like Miss April. In a low point I meet Miss April. During second grade the school David was at refused him help. Even though his reading was a 1.1 and math 1.6 they offered no help. Did research at the library and ask for help when looking reading help up. April worked there and helped me that day. When she asked why I was looking up reading help I started crying. Asked for help from the school they said David was fine. He was falling further behind in reading and math. It is wrong to feel the way I felt, hopeless. I walked in the Kingsland Library, meet Miss April, then started to cry. She hugged me until I stopped crying. In asking she found out the problems we had for years at that point. April is a reading tutor and a librarian who was willing to take David as a student. Having someone there who can guide you when it is necessary is priceless. …show more content…
Watching my child struggle to read was hard. I even did a small prayer asking for this to work and even gave thanks about someone was willing to help. She got out alphabet flash-cards for an assessment. She gave us a book and told us to read it 20 minutes a day, but use the same book each day without telling us why. When we came back two days later she asked how thing were going. I told her about how David seemed to read the book better each time. April worked with David twice a week most of that summer. We used flash card, site word cards, games, letter blocks, and so much more. Miss April helped teach him and I different techniques like multi-sensory. She even found others willing to help us like Kingsland
They have begun to develop sound-symbol understanding to speak the written words (Reading map of development, 2013), this is demonstrated by their ability to point at the word they are reading. The child is beginning to understand the book and its meaning, however fluency is not yet developed and several semantic mistakes were made. They display a good understanding of a graphonic cue and can do this mostly without prompt from the parent. Visual/pictorial cue can be achieved with prompt from the parent, the child is beginning to gain an understanding of how the pictures can match the text and this with more prompting should become an automatic cue. Vocabulary is still limited however it is expanding through their continued reading (Reading map of development, 2013). They know and understand that books are read from left to right and top to bottom. They also know how to ask for assistance when they get stuck on difficult
April Bartlett (HM) provided face to services in the community and monitor progress. The goal of the visit was to find Krystal and place to volunteer and get her signed up for a free bus pass. The HM and Krystal spoke about different place she could volunteer at because she has too much time on her hands and she needs to be doing something positive. Since Krystal love animal, a animal would be agreat place for her. The HM transported Krystal to the Humane Society on Michigan Road. Krystal was given a brochure stated how to apply. The HM when over the brochure with her thoroughly and explained that she needed to pay $15 fee. Krystal stated that she would email contact person and pay $15.
Like Lupe, I wanted to learn English and be more determine to learn new things, but bullying got in the way of that. Which made me think that I could do everything by myself and not need anyone to help me. It took time for me to learn that there are people out there that do care and can trust. A day or two later, Mr. Robles convinced me to go to the after school program so he could help me improve my grades. Since that day I’ve never stop working hard in school or stopped thinking about of what he said. After elementary school, I never stopped visiting him or asking him for advice. When I finished High School, I wanted to show him proof of what I had accomplished but… he had passed away. I just hope that he sees me now today from above, writing this essay of how grateful I am to have met
Preventing reading difficulties needs to be caught and identified in the earliest stages of a child’s development. ‘Research over the last two decades has demonstrated that most reading difficulties can be corrected,” (Kilpatrick 2011) According to the research it seems that reading difficulties can be diagnosed and a plan of intervention established early in a child’s education. The teaching establishment just needs to realize this and come to grips with a plan and practice to implement. According to a study by Vellutino, (1996) he conducted a study in which first grade students had an intensive intervention program and the results turned out to be very good about 68% benefited from the intervention and continued to do so a year after. One of the inventions focuses on site recognition where students can recognize a pool of words instantly. This was further explained in an article by Linnea Ehri (Learning to read words: Theory, Findings, and Issues). Here there was research done because educators where looking for evidence to make decisions on reading instructions for their students. Ehri conducted studie...
These theories, methods, assessments along with the evidence of success in reading at home make it clear that it is extremely important we try our hardest to support literacy in every child. All students can learn. It’s just a matter of making materials interesting and relevant to them, challenging them (but not to hard), and supporting them along the way.
During my first few weeks, I met a student named Joseph. He towered over me at 6-foot-4 and weighing 300 pounds. At first, I didn't know what to expect from him.I was surprised to learn he had failed the 9th grade twice and with this being his third try he was in the same grade as his younger brother, Jason. Joe and I became friends fast. I was treated differently because of my skin color but Joe did not judge me. Through students chit-chatter, I learned Joe was very popular and on the football team but had unexpectedly quit his first year. Joe struggled with his classes especially in English and Mathematics. One day in English, another kid was struggling to read a passage aloud, the classroom was filled with snickers and the teacher made the poor kid continue. After class, Joe comforted the kid and made him smile. That was his talent,, he had the ability to make people feel better.
If a child has Dyslexia, work with that child to find out what different things they could do to read better. See if spacing sentences out will help. Maybe they would just need a blank sheet of paper to block out the other words, Use flash cards and repetition. Also, routines are extremely
As we arrived, my stomach started to turn inside out, and I wasn’t sure why, but I knew when that happens I turn into a nervous wreck. They sat me in the hallway as they chattered about me I was assuming. On our bumpy car ride home, my parents stopped through an ice cream shop, knowing that’s a way to cheer their little boy. They sat me down and told me about how the teacher is concerned with my low-level reading and writing skills. It bothered me very much, that the teacher had never said anything to me one on one. My parents told me that I might be held back, and to stay positive and don’t let this bring you down. This caused so much confusion and discouragement for a seven year old boy. I was still in discomfort after the day reading because of how the kids laughed when I read my
Stanberry, K., & Swanson, L. (2009). Effective Reading Interventions for Kids With Learning Disabilities. In LD online. Retrieved January 13, 2014
One thing that I find to be going really well is the Silent Sustained Reading time. The Elementary School does SSR last hour, and the teachers have me reading with two kids, the same two every
Anna and I spent many evenings doing her homework together for the two English classes she decided to take. One of her first writing assignments was to write a two page paper on who her hero was. She asked me to read her paper to make sure that there were no grammatical or punctuation errors and as I was reading her paper tear welled up in my eyes. She wrote that her hero was me. How my unselfishness to have a complete stranger stay in my home and to allow this stranger to have the same luxuries and experiences that I get in my everyday life was something she had never experienced before. She was grateful that I had "chose" her as a student to stay in my home and that she was very blessed to have someone who cared so much.
"The family is no longer educationally productive" (Arnold). Although not true for all, more and more parents no longer have the time to teach their children at home. If placed in an early childhood education program, such as pre-school or joy school, a child can gain this love of reading from someone that thoroughly enjoys reading themselves. These caregivers can help a child learn different things, such as the shapes and names of the letters in the alphabet, that will make learning how to read much easier
My sister started teaching him before he started the reading and writing process. He took it on quickly and didn’t get frustrated during the time she spent with him. She started by teaching him the alphabet. When she felt that he understood it, she went on to learning simple words like his name, Gabe. When she started putting letters together, he would say the name instead of the letter she would be pointing at. But he eventually understood and went on to preschool where the teacher became impressed that he knew how to write his name so perfectly. This improved his self-esteem and made him confident to where he helps his fellow
“The single most important activity for building knowledge for their eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children,” a report from 1985 by the commission
Until a couple years ago when I was working and living in Las Vegas. It was there that I finally realized what I had been searching for in my life. I was spending a lot of time with a co-worker who had children in the school system. I vividly remember hearing her children say “the teacher’s don’t care.” This was shocking for a child who was in the fourth grade to be saying to me. I guess because I had a great experience in school with wonderful caring teachers. My memories of school are a little blurred with age but I do remember looking up to them as role models. Especially, my eighth grade English teacher who was the first person who ever told me that I was a beautiful writer. She encouraged me to continue to learn as much as I could about becoming a good writer. I still see her from time to time and she asks if I am still writing. I always say yes, but the last time I saw her, I got the chance to te...