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by Kaiva Jobbins
Mar 9, 2011
Hello, my name is Kai, and I'm a student at Bradley University, I'm novice teaching currently and wanted to ask for some help from people with experience.
I have a friend who recently came to me for help with managing her dyslexia. Now, she is an engineering student, 20 years old, and is a decent reader. The problem is now she is at a co-o...See MoreHello, my name is Kai, and I'm a student at Bradley University, I'm novice teaching currently and wanted to ask for some help from people with experience.
I have a friend who recently came to me for help with managing her dyslexia. Now, she is an engineering student, 20 years old, and is a decent reader. The problem is now she is at a co-op internship with a large engineering company and is struggling to read through all of the reports that end up on her desk.
As I said before, she is a decent reader, so it isn't that she can't make it through the reports, but that it takes her far too long. I was wondering if there were any tips I could pass along to her, or things I could work with her on to improve her reading skills. I tried looking through articles and books, but they only focus on young children.
Her current method for reading is to go through a paragraph once and pick out the words she is having trouble with. Then based on over-all context she looks at the sentence containing the word she was having trouble on, and by that point she usually can figure out what the word was. She then goes back a third time and double checks that the word fits and tries to verify that she got it right. It is highly effective and she used that method all the way to college, but as lengthy as it looks, it was an even lengthier method in practice.
Also, if you need more information I'd be happy to provide it. If anyone has any ideas of methods to improve reading and sorting out the letters more efficiently it would be a great help if they passed it along.
~Kai
Hi All,
I was wondering if anybody knew of jingles or something along that line that would help kids with learning/recalling genres and poetry terms?
Thanks! Beth
by Alexander Trivas
Mar 14, 2011
I live in LA and teach at the Brentwood School. I teach English and Global Studies. I wanted to let you know I launched a social networking site for teens around the world to connect through poetry. It's called One Billion Poets -- [link removed]
The goal is for teens around the world to post and discuss poetry related to the teenage exper...See MoreI live in LA and teach at the Brentwood School. I teach English and Global Studies. I wanted to let you know I launched a social networking site for teens around the world to connect through poetry. It's called One Billion Poets -- [link removed]
The goal is for teens around the world to post and discuss poetry related to the teenage experience in the 21st century (their hopes, dreams, burdens, joys, etc.) I am calling it one billion b/c there are about 1 billion teens in the world, so I believe that that means there are potentially one billion teen poets. Below, I am copying the about us page.
It's not for profit, and all the teachers have to do is show the kids the site.
I am very excited as it's been only a few days and people from 14 countries and 27 states in The US have been on site. I already have members from South Africa, England, Hong Kong, and the Bahamas. I have posted on numerous education and librarian listservs. It's been great as kids I don't know from the Bronx are connecting with each other.
I hope you enjoy and that you let your students know and encourage them to join. Please share with your colleagues and teacher friends all over.
Thank you so much.
Best, Alex Trivas
Approximately one billion people in the world are teenagers. Therefore, there are approximately one billion teenage poets in the world, young adults who can inspire and shape the world through their writing. Teenagers are often labeled as disaffected, disgruntled, and disengaged. However, we see numerous teens around the around the world striving to effect positive change. And frankly, if you are feeling a bit disaffected, that's okay too. The world is complex and tough, and it can be doubly so for teens. One elixir for the disillusionment and frustrations we face is the potency of poetry. Focusing on the four following prompts: Where I'm From, What I Carry, Why I Laugh, and What I Wish, One Billion Poets invites all aspiring poets to connect with each other and to share and reflect on each other's poems. We hope you will all see that although we certainly come from very diverse backgrounds-- sometimes extraordinarily different-- we all share many of the same dreams, burdens, loves, hopes, and emotions. Whether you live in Tunisia or Detroit, Moscow or Mexico City, we believe you all have something salient and beautiful to say about the teenage experience in the 21st century.
by How does your intermediate reading program look?
Mar 17, 2011
I am hoping to get some specific advice to this question, so here goes...
I am a second-year, fourth grade teacher and feel like I have never gotten my reading program off the ground. In my first year, I started the year very traditionally using the basal and leveled readers in small groups. This was so incredibly dry, however, that I soo...See MoreI am hoping to get some specific advice to this question, so here goes...
I am a second-year, fourth grade teacher and feel like I have never gotten my reading program off the ground. In my first year, I started the year very traditionally using the basal and leveled readers in small groups. This was so incredibly dry, however, that I soon switched over to teaching a novel. When the novel was done, I didn't know what to do and moved back into the basal. From there we went back into another novel and to the basal and then finally ended the year with more independent choice books. Feeling the pressure of THE TEST, most of my third quarter reading period was devoted to test prep via old state tests. Come June, my test scores were good-93%.
This year, I started out with the idea that I would implement the Sisters' Daily 5- an independent station sort of approach. Well, soon enough I caved into the Testing Demon again and decided to go back to more whole group teaching because I didn't feel I could monitor the kids well enough when I was doing mini-lessons and then conferencing with self-selected reading. It felt fluffy even though I implemented the book exactly as written. So, back to the basals again and then to novels and back to independent choice books/conferencing and then a novel and then a few basal stories...
I am so at a loss for what a meaningful fourth grade reading curriculum looks like. I really don't believe (no offense intended) that a basal reader can be meaningful by itself. At the same time, I don't believe it is feasible in our test-driven society to leave all reading selections up to the students.
Can someone (hopefully more than one person) please share a detailed description of how you teach reading, what you use, how you engage kids at this level?
THANKS SO MUCH! :)
I just downloaded a new app for iPhone/iPad that offers assessments in several reading areas. It looks like it would be useful for parents and teachers who would rather use their phones than drag out an assessment binder. I'm recommending it to the parents in my class. It's only .99¢
Can anyone help me understand the difference between these two? Is one better than the other? Any disadvantages to Myon?
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