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    his audience that the only way to obtain privilege and reach salvation is to invest in education. His passionate telling of literacy being the only response to his desire for freedom undoubtedly imprints in the minds of readers the importance of reading and writing and reminds them of how imperative it is. To sum, Douglass utilizes various stratagems to prove to readers the significance of education and

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    difficulty with reading. He reads very slowly and doesn’t recognize many words. Because of his lack of word recognition, he spends the majority of this time sounding them out. He has spent so much mental effort trying to read, that he doesn’t have the ability to comprehend what he has read. In order for Jeff to be able to comprehend his reading, he needs to work on his fluency. Once he has accomplished this task, he can focus more on comprehension. As of October 11th, Jeff was reading 27 WCPM which

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    Around the same time, her neighbor Darrell Bushnell and other concerned community members met to discuss the possibility of opening the first lending library open to the public in Granada, Nicaragua with the prime objective of bringing the pleasure of reading to the people of Granada.

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    Book Entry Onomatopoeia

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    The book my classmate wrote about is called Tippy Toe Chick, Go! by George Shannon. I recognized this book from babysitting over the summer and reading this book. George Shannon has been writing children's books his whole life. He spent years as a children's librarian and later a professional storyteller, influenced his writings and stories. After reading about this author I have learned that in order to accomplish anything in life, you need to love what you are

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    C. After Reading Skill Focus – Character traits 1. Ask the students if they know what are the characters and after their answers tell them that characters are people depicted, talked about in the story. • What characters have we met in the story so far? (Nick, Robbie – Nick’s older brother, Mom – of Nick and Robbie, Grandfather – we know of him, Aunt Margo – chubby owner of Silver Pines Inn, Mrs., McHugh – a , Peter) 2. Ask the students what are character traits and after their answer tell them that

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    My past reading and writing experiences I had been home schooled my whole life until my freshman year in high school. Therefore, I started to learn how to read and write at home. Before I started to learn how to read and write, I always wondered why everyone needed to know the letters of the alphabet and why they had to be able to draw them. The first day that I started learning phonics, I soon started to realize that having the ability to read and write, was the very reason that everyone should

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    different. One weekend, after playing restaurant with my mom and brother, my mom contacted my teacher to talk about some concerns she had with my reading and writing. She was told that I seemed to be progressing on an age-appropriate level with my peers and that nothing appeared to be wrong. But my mom persisted, and insisted that I be tested for a reading disability. My dad is dyslexic and my mom, knowing it can be passed down, was watching for the signs in my older brother first and now me. After

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    Becoming A Writer

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    I want to write more, that I need to write. But first? Reading. If you've read Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft you're likely familiar with his words: "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut." For someone who has loved reading for longer than writing, I let it slip away, reading only a few books each year. Becoming a reader again gave me the opportunity

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    I didn’t grow up reading Harry Potter. I was already in college when the first book came out. I think there are several reasons why Harry Potter has had such a large impact on readers. One aspect of Harry Potter made a huge impact on readers are the deep friendships made during the book. Harry, Ron, and Hermione became the best of friends. They went through good times and bad times, but they remained friends. There are other characters who are accessory characters, who are also friends. The

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    Reading aloud is a common practice in primary classrooms and is viewed as an important vehicle for vocabulary development. Read aloud are complex instructional interactions in which teachers choose texts, identify words for instruction, and select the appropriate strategies to facilitate word learning. Reading aloud to children provides a powerful context for word learning. During read aloud interactions, word learning occurs both incidentally and as I stop and elaborates on particular words to provide

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