¶ … children learn how to read at the same pace. However, the parent does have some cause for concern. As Kelly & Campbell (n.d.) points out, "studies indicate that when students get off to a poor start in reading, they rarely catch up," (p. 1). Therefore, I would first thank and congratulate the parent on being concerned and seeking assistance. According to the Oxford Owl (n.d.), "the best thing to do if you are worried about your child is to talk to your child's class teacher." The first question I would ask would be how old the child is, and if the child is young, to direct the parent to the Oxford Owl website. This website includes a wide range of resources, games, and tools that parents can use with their children. I would also tell the parent, possibly later in our conversation, that a range of formal programs are available for their child including Success For All, Reading Recovery, the Spalding Method, Early Intervention Reading, the Boulder Project, and the Winston-Salem Project (Kelly & Campbell,...
1). The parent is able to choose whichever program they feel is appropriate, and I am here to help guide their decisions. A school-wide program will help parents find the necessary support they need.
Among all the measures, sentence imitation illustrated the greatest power in discriminating poor and adequate readers (2010). Another study conducted by Flax, Realpe-Bonilla, Roesler, Choudhury, and Benasich (2010) studied the profiles of children with a family history (FH+) of language-learning impairments (LLI) and a control group of children with no reported family history of LLI (FH-) with the hope of identifying "which language constructs (receptive or expressive) and which ages
Fingerspelling As children learn new languages they are taught how to sound out words in order to be able to write it correctly when the need comes. Language development in children takes on the traditional form of first experiencing the language, listening to the language, and then viewing the language in written form in order to fully understand what specific words stand for. This is however not possible for all children.
Is Play Significant in Helping Children Learn and Understand? Gap Analysis Chart: Is Play Significant in Helping Children Learn and Understand?ARTICLE # 1Type your comments into this columnResearch Article (must be relevant, empirical, and published within the last 10 years)(Where applicable, older articles may be used)Provide article reference in APA Style. (If you use an electronic APA Style reference generator, double check the formatting to ensure it follows the APA
81). Ambrose and Corn (1997) further define "functional vision" as vision that can be used to derive input for planning and performing tasks; the extent to which one uses his or her available vision is referred to as "visual efficiency." Reading Skills. According to Carver (2002), "reading usually means to attempt to comprehend language in the form of printed words"; therefore, for the purposes of this study, the term "reading
Child Observation Term: Winter, 2014 John Age of Child: 6 years old Date of Observation: February 3, 2014 Time of Observation: 9:00 to 10:00 Place of Observation: Child Care Center Other People Present in the Observation Setting: 1 teacher, 1 assistants, 15 other children Development: Appears mostly normal; has some problems with fine motor skills and challenging cognitive skills. Permission: Permission was granted by the Director of the Child Care Center, the child's teacher and his parents John was observed
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