Essays on Reading Comprehension

Cognitive processes are complex and entangled, involving a multiplicity of elements and factors, which still makes it a remaining mystery for many researchers and scholars. The greatest questions concern how the system of cognitive processes function and how it is developed. The latter one will be further analyzed in the essay, with a special attention paid to the differences in the children's and adults' cognitive processes, and the aim to trace certain stages or tendencies in their development, as well as trying to define the ways of their performance improvement. The essay will primarily focus on the cognitive process ...

Scaffolding

Scaffolding can be described as a teaching technique which provides a temporary support to child learners until they can stand on their own. The expert who is the teacher or the facilitator sets an example for the learners and guide them closely until such time that they can grow on their own. Puntambekar, S. (2009) cited the definition of Vygotsky (1896-1934) of scaffolding that learning begins not in the cognitive level but in social interactions. Vygotsky as cited by Puntambekar added that in a scaffolding, the expert set the tasks that are beyond the learners’ capability. It is then ...

Diagnostic procedures to determine reading problems among year five pupils includes reading evaluation with the help of teachers with a major focus on assessing whether reading difficulties entailed fluency or comprehension. With the help of teachers, signals on the way the children spoke, the way they listened and how they responded were observed with the aim of assessing the nature of the reading difficulties. Among the factors considered at the diagnostic phase included: pupils approach to reading with emphasis on how pupils sounded out words, the way they spelled out words that were not memorized and the word type ...

Abstract

The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils. Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

Reading is one of the most complex and amazing of all human abilities. While we might tend to think of the reading process is a single activity, in point of fact, many different things are going on in our brains while we are reading. The human brain has to do multiple tasks efficiently and simultaneously if we are going to be able to read, enjoy and fully understand any book or other written material. For teachers, there are five key elements of literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development, reading comprehension. All of these elements combine to ...

Introduction

Reading skills are not only essential for career advancement, but are also an essential survival skill. From day-to-day, we have to read a lot of important information from notices, letters, signposts, consumer information leaflets on products and commercials among many others. Therefore, it difficult for a person who does not know how to read to survive. Therefore, reading skills is one of the essential life skills that should be emphasized at institutions of learning. Learners reading skills should be horned during their early years at school so that those who drop out from school also acquire the skills. Institutions ...

Restatement of initial research questions

Reading is a crucial skill in life. Therefore, it is one of the core skills that learners must acquire. Duggan (2009) states that reading comprehension is affected by many internal and external factors and visual processing. Reading comprehension is defined as the degree of understanding a text (Jager-Adams, 1994). It does not only include the amount of reading time, but also the ability to trigger information from the text. According to Ouellette (2006), the end goal of reading is comprehension. Therefore, reading time does not provide a full picture of reading comprehension because one can quickly skim the text ...

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Note Taking Method the Cornell Way

According to Professor Walter Pauk of the Cornell University, who also happens to be a successful author of the book How to Study in College, the Cornelll method of note taking will help students “systematically record, analyze, synthesize, ...

Overall score on the OTELA: _____90________

Reading Passage chosen: _____Where The Wild Things Are______________________ Literal Questions: 1) What grew in Marx’s room? 2) What hung from his bedroom ceiling? 3) What did Marx sail on in his private boat?

Interpretive Questions: 1) Why did Max give up being king of where the wild things are?

2) How did he tame such wild things? 3) What can be inferred from the story? Purpose statement: What do you plan to say for the Introduction of the passage? (This should give the student an idea of what the passage is about and give a general purpose for reading. Be careful not to give away too much information. For example, for the passage on “ ...

on students of Melbourne University Reading is one of the first skills taught and applied during the first years of education in schools across the globe. Duggan (2009) expressed adept readers showed to have fast reading times as the most reliable indicator for their skills, while text comprehension was also an indicator, but a more difficult one to assess. In opposition, the experience of reading can be either improved or weakened by exterior elements different than the reader himself. Irlen’s trials (as stated by Morrison, 2011), claimed that reading black words on pale backgrounds, such as white, caused ...

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A Statistical Approach

Reading is one of the first abilities developed and enforced during the first years of education across the world. Duggan (2009) states that one of the two most characteristic attributes a skillful reader has is his speed and ease while reading, the other being the understanding of the text. Conversely, the experience of reading can be enhanced or deteriorated by outside elements other than the reader himself. Irlen’s study (as cited by Morrison, 2011) suggests that visual perception is distorted when reading black words on a white background, ...

Article Summary

Article Summary The premise of this article and the associated research study is that there is a gender gap in areas of reading and math that can, in part, be attributed to gender stereotypes. It understood that there is a significant gap between male and female performance on math assessments. What is not as significantly studied is the performance gap that exists in the area of reading. This is reported as being a surprising fact as the performance gap present in reading is far greater than the gap present in math. According to information from the Organization for Economic ...