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    my class. I thought reading was really boring and I did not understand why it was so important. My problem was that I never had the motivation to read. So when my mom told me that I could not watch the movie unless I read the book, I decided that reading was something I should start doing. My mom helped me read the first chapter, but it was hard to get any further in the book because she was really busy with other things. So that is when I decided that I needed to start reading on my own. I was determined

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    H. Seitz and C. Bartholomew discuss in their article, “Reading Together”, the benefits of peer teaching to improve language and literacy. The focus of the article was how to help develop reading skills, while showing students how enjoyable reading can be done. The article also focused on how peer teaching can benefit every student in the classroom. The article wants to help teachers find a way to improve reading skill, fluency, and comprehension skills in a way that students will find enjoyable.

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    Reading as a process of fluent decoding and construction of meaning: The interdependence of phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, oral language, and comprehension as it relates to the subject area of Mathematics Jon-Paul Estupinan Competency 1: Foundations of Reading July 2015 Introduction The process of reading requires a connection between multiple factions of skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary acquisition, fluency, oral language and comprehension

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    of what they’ve learned. Many teachers even believe that they should no longer test students harshly on what they’ve learned because this can cause stress and dislike for learning. Found within John Holt’s article, How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading, there is much evidence that this unorthodox approach is effective in teaching children and making them want to learn. Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, a student is forced to read several books that they may despise. They are then

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    There were many times in English class where we had to read. When I was in eleventh grade I was about 16 and reading was hard for me to get into. Sitting in an uncomfortable seat trying to read a book was boring to me. As we read “Of Mice and Men” the book has no picture, the pages are thin, and it had no smell to it. The only picture that was on that book was a tree on the cover. As I sit in this warm room with other bored students and following a long in this small long book. The room is quiet

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    8: Assessing and Teaching Reading: Fluency and Comprehension The Common Core State Standards place importance on the ability for students to understand and analyze key ideas in text. Students who have reading fluency are able to read text at a steady rate, summarize supporting details, and analyze different points of view. To assess a student’s fluency rate, teachers can measure WCPM, the words read correctly per minute in 2-3 grade-level passages. To assess reading comprehension, teachers can

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    When evaluating a student’s reading behaviour it is important to know his/her abilities as it pertains to phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Phonemic awareness is the knowledge of sounds in spoken sound. Yopp and Yopp (2000) state that it is the awareness speech involves sequencing sounds and this instruction should be of priority in early reading instruction. To assess phonemic awareness I would use the pre- and post-assessment for phonemic awareness. This informal

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    My first experience of reading and writing I was born on Jakarta. I live in villa tangerang regency 1. The first time I was able to read is when I was In kindergarten. Actualy, my mom also told me, how to read an alphabet and read the number, but I can read well on kindergarten. I can read what is written on the book. I also can read any sign , I was be able to read is because my teacher told e that every letter of an alphabet can be a thing. Like A for apple and B for ball. Then I learn how to

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    Comprehension of a reading text is made difficult due to the interactive nature of the reading process. Different readers respond in different ways to the same text. The reading lesson therefore needs to make allowances for both the variety of texts and the variety of readers. ( Nuttal,1996). As reading is a complex task, teacher need to be focused on the learning goals of the reading lesson and steer the learners towards achieving these goals. Even if the reading programme has a prescribed textbook

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    QRI-6. The Qualitative Reading Inventory – 6th edition (QRI-6) is an informal reading inventory created to assess students to provide information on word identification, comprehension, culminating in an overall level of performance. Triven frustrated when orally reading a 4th grade Narrative passage (ON) and orally reading a 2nd grade Oral Expository passage (ON). He received instructional when orally reading a 2nd grade ON passage and when orally reading a 1st grade OE passage. Finally, he had Independent

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