Competency 9 Internet Webpage

Teaching children to read while nurturing their love for reading.

I use this reading program in my classroom and it designed to do just this; nurture and grow a child's desire to read.

Accelerated Reading: A child reads a variety of genres to test comprehension and vocabulary on each book title they read for points. A goal is set for each six-week period, which can be a general for all students or set by individual needs. For the success of the child, they must succesfully meet or beat 85% of their six-week goal by passing each book with 60% or above; the lower the passing score the least amount of points earned for that children for that particular book. My students' get a sticker to place on a chart during the six-week period and then an ice cream if they have met their 85% of their goal. So, students that are struggling readers at this point are not at 10 points for a goal, they are at 6 points and working very hard to get their goal! I'm watching them love to read and enjoying what they're reading because emphasis is read what you like and earn your points. Students are allowed to get a fun book that is not AR related just to read for fun.

http://www.renlearn.com/default.aspx


I used Google.com to search for Renaissance Learning reading program.

Competency 8 Visual Research

Topic: Teaching children to read while nurturing their love for reading.

Fourth-Grade Students' Reading AchievementGrows Dramatically While Low Scores Decline (ITBS)

As one can see by the resultsof the case study, AR works!

I chose this bar graph in Accelerated Reader http://www.renlearn.com/ar/casestudy.aspx because it reflects the changes that can take place when this program is used correctly within a classroom. It truly nurtures a child's love for reading while teaching them to read, comprehend what is being read, and enhances the use of vocabulary.

Competency 7 Image

My Topic is:

Teaching children to read while nurturing their love for reading.


As an educator it is my job to teach my children to read, but also identify those who can't read and nurture their love for reading. Dyslexia is on the rise in public schools among the student population.



Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area as normal children while performing a simple language task, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers. The study shows for the first time that there are chemical differences in the brain function of dyslexic and non-dyslexic children.

This is an image of the new studies found where dyslexic children use five times more brain area when completing a simple task such as: a language task; reading. When a child with dyslexia is learning to read, it takes him/her five times the desire, time, or effort to complete this task. It is so imparative that they love reading not only because someone has taken the time to teach them to read ,but also nurtures their love for reading.

I used Google with the search query of= dyslexia OR children OR reading

http://www.dyslexia-teacher.com/t160.html (Accessed through Google.com October 26,2008)











An image I found that I really like and I think it speaks for istelf.

Image URL:
www.bolsover.gov.uk/images/child%20reading.jpg

Source URL:
http://www.bolsover.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=7588

Competency 6C

Specific Facet Using

WorldCat:

Search Criteria: : kw: reading or ((kw: young and kw: children)) and kw: nurturing.

Record 2 of 291.Results:

How to get your child to love reading /Author: Codell, Esmé Raji, 1968-Publication: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003Document: English : BookLibraries Worldwide: 1361

Reflections: My facets were reading and young children and nurturing. It was hard to get the right information using the term nurturing because of nurturing meaning take care of, but I finally did by adding and removing my terms to get the desired results I needed.

Competency 6B

Citation Pearl using: LibLit

Searched for a journal articleJournal title: School Library Media Activities Monthly

Subject: Children reading/ reading activites/book discussion groups

Results: 163 hits

Beyerly, C. Connecting with Students [The Readers Club]. School Library Media Activities Monthly v. 24 no. 6 (February 2008) p. 48-9

Reflections: At first this search seemed difficult, but as I learned how to use it I thought it was one of the easier searches to perform.

Competency 6A

Successive Fraction using Project Muse:

S1: connecting AND children AND reading in All Fields w/Text OR nurturing AND love AND reading in All Fields w/Text Displaying: 2635 results

S2: elementary AND children in All Fields w/Text OR relunctant AND readers in All Fields w/Text AND fluency in All Fields w/Text Assessing the Effects of the Reading Success Level A Program with Fourth-grade Students at a Title I Elementary SchoolReed, Jaclyn M.Marchand-Martella, Nancy E.Martella, Ronald C.Kolts, Russell L.Education and Treatment of Children, Volume 30, Number 1, February 2007, pp. 45-68 (Article)DOI: 10.1353/etc.2007.0004
Displaying: 146 results

S3: elementary AND children in All Fields w/Text OR relunctant AND readers in All Fields w/Text AND oral AND fluency in All Fields w/TextThe Effects of Classwide Peer Tutoring on the Reading Achievement of Urban Middle School StudentsVeerkamp, Mary Baldwin.Kamps, Debra M.Cooper, Lori.Education and Treatment of Children, Volume 30, Number 2, May 2007, pp. 21-51 (Article)DOI: 10.1353/etc.2007.0010 Displaying: 67 results


Reflections: Using the successive search strategy provided many good hits. As you noticed I had to keep working to get my hits from 2635 to 67 results.

Competency 6

My Blog topic is..... How to improve the reading skills of young children while nurturing their love of reading.



I completed four out of five db searches on my topic. I selected the following searches:

Building Block
Citation Pearl Growing
Specific Facet
Successive Fraction

See my search results below:

Building Block Search using ASC:

S1: reading or read or literacy
S2: improvement or skill or motivate
S3: children or young children or young readers

Results: 41 hits.

Sound Reading and Reading Sounds: The Case for Phonemic Awareness.Preview By: Zeece, Pauline. Early Childhood Education Journal, Oct2006, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p169-175, 7p, 14 illustrations; DOI: 10.1007/s10643-006-0125-8; (AN 22931419)
STORYTELLING: ENHANCING LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN YOUNG CHILDREN.Preview By: Speaker, Kathryne McGrath; Taylor, Deborah; Kamen, Ruth. Education, Fall2004, Vol. 125 Issue 1, p3-14, 12p, 1 chart; (AN 15068404)

Reflection: I had good results with 41 hits with my search criteria. Although I could get the number of hits down, this was a harder search for me.