ipl-logo

Chapter 3 Essay

564 Words3 Pages

Chapter 3 explores the criteria educators can use for determining what instructional materials (such as texts) will be appropriate for their learners. Initially, Ruddell (2008) takes on the ongoing debate between textbooks and trade books. Ruddell (2008) acknowledges the purpose of textbooks as a means of organizing learning information and supplementing students understanding, but pushes that trade books are a better alternative for students to read to learn. Having clarified the utility of textbooks versus trade text, Ruddell (2008) surveys the various evaluative instruments and philosophies educators can use to determine texts for their class; these instruments/philosophies include: readability formulas (Fry Readability Graph, SMOG Formula), reader-text relationship concerns (cloze testing, Group Reading Inventory), the readability checklist, the friendly text evaluation scale, and the Carter G. Woodson book award checklist. …show more content…

Additionally, Ruddell (2008) lays out criteria that educators can utilize for evaluating electronic and software based texts, particularly those texts pulled from or located directly on the internet. Lastly, the author calls on teachers to have a voice in the task of text selection but also to remain ever sensitive to the various issues and needs surrounding text

Show More
Related
168 Words | 1 Pages

Justina Toland- Tennant Unit 4 Assignment Chapter 4 Exercises and Review Chapter 4: Exercise 4.26 #4 49521 Hernia repair, inguinal, incarcerated Chapter 4: Exercise 4.31 #4 50920 Fistula, closure, ureter cutaneous Chapter 4: Exercise 4.34 #10 54322 Hypospadias, repair, one stage, meatal advancement Chapter 4: Exercise 4.37 #8 58956 Hysterectomy, abdominal, total Chapter 4: Exercise 4.41 #4 61312 Craniotomy, evacuation of hematoma Chapter 4: Exercise 4.43 #8 67700-RT Incision and drainage, abscess, eyelid Chapter 4: Review: Coding for Facility # 12 11305-LT Shaving, skin lesion Appendix C: Case Number #9 52630 Prostatectomy, transurethral 9. 52601 Prostate, excision, transurethral; or Prostatectomy,

Read More
282 Words | 2 Pages

1. 31 counties, 2551652 is total 2010 population, Washington county in Arkansas has largest area of 956.1 square miles 2. New York has largest number of African Americans, District of Columbia (DC) has largest percen tage of African Americans 3. Middle Atlantic has 3014385 4. - FIPS code is the field that can use to join table with dating table.

Read More
1340 Words | 6 Pages

Question no 1: % It is a program which takes coordinates (x, y) of a center of a circle and its radius r from user, % and determine that whether any point z with lies inside the circle, on the circle or outside the % circle. For this if ,elseif and else statements will be used there. function result= circle() x=input('Enter value of x Cordinate:'); y= input('Enter value of y Cordinate:'); r=input('Enter value of Radius:'); c=r*r; z=

Read More
296 Words | 2 Pages

Unit III: Chapter 9 Concepts and Identifications (Please clearly explain the significance of each). Africanity A distinct culture that existed all throughout Africa and united the continent as a whole.

Read More
466 Words | 2 Pages

Conor 2.Use a cluster diagram to record the issues that conservatives strongly endorsed. Moral Majority 2.Choose one issue and explain in a paragraph the conservative position on that issue. The Conservatives supported the Conservative Collation as way to change the face of people's general way of thinking. Conservatives wanted less of a federal government because they believed the people and the American economy deserved more freedom from the American economy. The Conservatives wanted families to be more patriotic and promote traditional values.

Read More
132 Words | 1 Pages

1. Researches excluded students that are diagnose with mental problems because the researches don 't want to make them uncomfortable on what students without mental health problems feel. I also believe that students with mental health problems were excluded because they will not give an accurate answer. 2. I believe that people think about that people with mental health problems are crazy, can 't think right, mean, weird, and dumb.

Read More
204 Words | 1 Pages

Chapter 11 of Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction and Assessment, FLIA, and Chapter 5 of Pathways to the Common Core, PCC, relate very well to each other. One of the most difficult types of texts to comprehend for many are informational texts, yet they are also very important in a student’s education. Both chapters talk about the importance of comprehending the text and what must happen for students to comprehend what they are reading. While FLIA discusses different comprehension strategies, instructional strategies, and how to specifically approach reading comprehension with students, PCC discusses what comprehending the text will look like and what the students will gain from comprehending the text. They each are important in their own way.

Read More
609 Words | 3 Pages

II The book describes African Americans in the time period of slavery through civil war and civil rights revolution, to 1980s, after the segregation of the black race. The book mainly focus on the speech done by social activists of different time period. In addition of the reasons and different beliefs of those social activist had. Such as Frederick Douglass, who believe we can’t wait for somebody else to fight freedom for us.

Read More
993 Words | 4 Pages

IPTS 4I: creates a safe and healthy environment that maximizes student learning. IPTS 3E: understands the appropriate role of technology, including assistive technology, to address student needs, as well as how to incorporate contemporary tools and resources to maximize student learning; IPTS 3C: understands cultural, linguistic, cognitive, physical, and social and emotional differences, and considers the needs of each student when planning Instruction. Performance Activity 55: Observe and record how the teacher calls on most or all students. If not observed, what kind of a difference would occur in the classroom if most or all students were called on? Ms. Boerema calls on all of her students.

Read More
1049 Words | 5 Pages

Managers of airports of all sizes and volumes of operations have certification requirements as specified in the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 139 and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Advisory Circular (AC) 150/5200-18C. One of the best ways to maintain compliance to the FAA requirements is to conduct Self-Inspections (S-I)’s. The primary reason for the establishment of these inspections was to promote safety and should be take very seriously and carried out in great detail. How a manager chooses to conduct these inspections is often tailored to the airport, but when they conduct the inspections are critical to the overall success of the management of an airport.

Read More
784 Words | 4 Pages

There needs to be change made for students to excel. The new standards are expecting students to analyze books with higher expectations for processing their thoughts. It also allows “students to explore and pursue their interests within a broad array of informational texts,” which encourages students to realize there is more to reading than just fiction (CITE-ASCD). Therefore, this can only be an improvement on the old process of reading in schools.

Read More
869 Words | 4 Pages

CHM1 Task 2 A. Personal Values Here are my four top personal core values. 1. One of my personal core values is honesty. Being honest is personally meaningful to me because I believe that it is important for others to know that I am trustworthy and truthful so that they can feel secure that I will act in an ethical way. By being honest I gain trust, which matters to me.

Read More
807 Words | 4 Pages

She believes the syllabus provided to students do not include any challenging books, and her belief toward high school teachers becoming too lazy to examine thoroughly if the book the education system provides them with represent any true and significant value is a recurring concern of hers’- therefore ineffective to students. All in all, Prose used ethos, pathos, logos and the usage of specific words to help her argument. She successfully persuades her point of view and makes it clear that if schools want their curriculum to improve, they must change their way of teaching and push their students to view literature in a new

Read More
624 Words | 3 Pages

Reading Indicator 5.2 Think Aloud is the researched – based reading strategy I chose to use to facilitate the reading comprehension skills while reading nonfiction literature. The strategy used for 5.2, think aloud, is teachers modeling the use of text features to increase students reading comprehension of nonfiction text. Students will observe the teacher asking specific questions about the text, illustrations, charts, and other text features to understand what the text is saying at a deeper level, and retain more information about the text. Furthermore, my objective is that, students will learn how to effectively use text features as they observe the teacher modeling the process, using the reading strategy think aloud, for students while reading a text.

Read More
1273 Words | 6 Pages

Research Statement Research background I completed my doctoral research in an industrial doctorate framework and I was affiliated with a residential care facility for individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID) having 60+ patients. Over the last three years of my doctoral research, I have been working on extending the benefits of Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) to individuals with wide range of mental health concerns and emotion recognition via Electrodermal-Activity (EDA) physiological signal with a keen focus on real-time applications. Robot-assisted systems for cognitive rehabilitation can increase the reach of potential benefits of evidence-based psychological/psychosocial interventions to the individuals with a wide range of mental

Read More

More about Chapter 3 Essay

Related Topics

Open Document