Reading fluency is defined as the ability to read smoothly and accurately‚ while using proper phrasing and expression (Bengeny‚etal.‚(2010). It is important that students add emphasis and make inferences while reading to process the meaning to the information being read. When practicing reading fluency it is important that students develop automacity. A professional ballet dancer no longer consciously has to think about her form or steps to a routine‚ a fluent reader should no longer remember to
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Consumerism is eating the Future The world fails to realize that the human race is what will lead the Earth to destruction. The population is only doing what every other creature does to survive; however humans are doing it better. Therefore‚ all the expanding going on is going to eventually lead to an end to the population‚ because there will be no more room so the race will go down in its own waste. The reason for all this consumption is because humans have made consuming a necessity and this
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Reading has at all times and in all ages been a source of knowledge‚ of happiness‚ of pleasure and even moral courage. In today’s world with so much more to know and to learn‚ the importance of reading has increased. In the olden days if reading was not cultivated or encouraged‚ there was a substitute for it in the religious sermon and in the oral tradition. The practice of telling stories at bed time compensated to some extent for the lack of reading. Books are our best friends. They never deceive
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students in ULIS-VNU in particular. All its four units with some interesting topics including the society‚ nature versus nurture‚ medical advance as well as the environment fascinated me a lot. However‚ I make the third unit my best choice for my reading reflection because it discusses technology and ethical issues raises‚ which have been recently concerned most among people. The unit consists of three chapters entitled “Assisted suicide: Multiple perspectives”‚ “Sales of Kidneys prompt new laws
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In order to decide if killing is ever a justifiable act‚ you must be in a position where it would actually make sense to. For example‚ imagine your mom or dad is in the hospital and has been on life support for a few months now. The doctor says they may never wake up again‚ so what do you do? Do you pull the plug and release the pain forever or keep them on longer to see if they will wake up? Say it’s been a year now‚ would you change your mind if you picked the second answer? With that said‚ in
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Lake Gordon‚ a large recreational lake is New Jersey‚ is home to large amounts of fish. However‚ residents near the lake are starting to notice that unusual amounts of dead fish are appearing on the lake. EPA investigators found that toxic substances were not present in the water‚ leaking of sewage into the water has caused an increase in the number of aerobic organisms in the sediment of the lake bed along the south shore‚ and that runoff of detergents and household fertilizers has caused an excess
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complete‚ and you are currently reading over their work. However‚ you begin to feel dismay as you notice the simple mistakes your students make‚ such as not capitalizing proper nouns or using phrases that aren’t actual words in their writing. You mark them down‚ giving them a lower score and move on‚ hoping that the next student lives up to their potential. As the age of technology progresses and texting is used daily‚ it has become evident that texting is indeed killing language. Words are being abbreviated
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READING STRATEGIES -If we know something about a text we are going to read‚ our perception‚ interpretation‚ and understanding of that text will likely begin before we start to read. Even if we do not know anything about a text‚ our mind tries to make sense of what we are attending to We may have experienced frustration with trying to read something that we did not understand; we may have tried to tackle it‚ or we may have given up discouraged because it seemed too foreign‚ too inaccessible. A
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Response: How to Get a Real Education Scott Adams shares with us the ideal framework for an entrepreneurial curriculum. In his article How to Get a Real Education‚ he reinforces the fact that the whole is far greater than the sum of these parts‚ especially in the context of an entrepreneur. Adams tells us of a couple stories from when he was in college and how he used the skills of an entrepreneur to become successful. He saw opportunities‚ sometimes embedded within problems‚ and worked them to
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The Joy of Reading‚ or‚ What Reading Really Means to Me When I was first asked to make this short speech‚ I was struck by the title “What Reading Means to Me.” My knee-jerk reaction was “What doesn’t reading mean to me?” As a professional librarian‚ I thought of all of our standard platitudes: “Reading is Life.” “Reading is Fundamental.” “There is no such thing as too many books.” I might easily have gone on and on along this vein‚ until I remembered that‚ for me
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