Group 2: Module 1 Video Reflection (OC) by JoDell Heroux

Reply to question 1.5

morro1e — 2025-09-09 00:46:46 UTC

Early Intervention focuses on the development of reading and writing problems, typically for low-achieving K-3 students. Although, even before Kindergarten, Early Intervention provides services to young children that are seen as eligible. This is important to a student success in reading because getting the resources you need to aid in a child development sooner than later is incredibly beneficial to the student's development. Intervention at an early stage will be more effective and can improve literacy skills. If a Kindergartener was struggling with reading and never got the help they needed, it would be hard to keep up with their grade level in the future and probably not get the appropriate assistance even though they full on need it. Due to Early Intervention, teachers are able to assess the problem, plan, and enhance the students learning of reading and writing.

Reply to Question 1.6

morro1e — 2025-09-09 00:57:25 UTC

Ms. Janusz is testing the student's fluency and comprehension. I think this is important because both of those are key aspects to being a successful reader. Furthermore, it can help the teacher realize where they need to focus on while teaching or prioritize with just that student. If the student struggles badly, it can also be an indicator that they may need assistance for their literacy development.

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2025-09-10 17:55:55 UTC

Balanced reading instruction has many layers to it. It teaches things like phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It is also planned out and given explicitly for students to grasp a good understanding of literacy all around. Giving different ways of instruction also helps learners stay engaged and pick up things faster. I remember doing different activities in school in whole group and small groups working on things like words, sentences and patterns within literacy. I remember playing word games and using a lot of flash cards with letters and words on them. I would also be pulled from class to get extra help with a lot of this stuff and would do a lot of extra activities to help keep up.

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2025-09-10 18:20:10 UTC

In the video, this teacher helps her students to keep up with their fluency by reading along with them. While doing this she was able to keep them reading at a steady pace that was not too fast for them but kept them consistent and focused. I remember doing something like this in small groups and the teacher having us use our fingers to point to keep up with where we were in the reading while reading out loud with the group.

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2025-09-12 18:29:33 UTC

The reading process is understanding written text using various steps or stages. These steps include using their prior knowledge, recognizing words, comprehending the text, and reading fluently. I'm very excited to teach students how to read. I personally love reading because I think it can be an outlet to 'escape reality'. I think reading on a regular basis is important for students of all ages to enhance their education.

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2025-09-12 18:36:02 UTC

Ms.McCloskey demonstrates explicit instruction by telling the students what word to write. She then has the point to the word and read it aloud. Next, she has them erase the word and write it again. She then has them read it aloud again. Explicit instruction is important for multilingual learners because they need to practice basic things such as spelling a word and then reading it. Repetition is also very important as it allows students to practice and become more familiar with the content.

Grace Dixon, 1.1 Reply

2025-09-13 22:47:17 UTC

Balanced reading instruction is an approach to teaching reading by mixing different activities and methods. Usually, this includes practicing phonics, guided reading, read-alouds, shared reading, and so much more. Teachers who follow this approach make sure to include lessons about phonics, phonemics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Balanced reading instruction is about teaching not only how to read words but also how to understand and enjoy what's being read.

The purpose of a balanced reading approach is to provide multiple ways to learn how to read. All students learn differently, and some need guidance in certain areas; this approach helps meet the needs of all the students. Not to mention, switching up activities helps students, especially younger ones, to focus and stay engaged in lessons, making this approach even stronger.

When I was learning to read in elementary school, my school had a brief moment where they decided to move away from a balanced reading approach, especially teaching phonics or sounding out words first. They wanted to focus on a “whole language” approach, where students were taught to use context tools from pictures, surrounding words, and partial letter recognition to essentially guess the words they were reading. For a brief period, this caused me to struggle greatly with reading until the school decided to move back to teaching phonics and balanced reading instruction.

After the shift, I started practicing phonics more often and had many different activities to learn to read. We were taught with puppets while my teacher was reading to us, we read individually to our teacher, discussed what we read with our peers, had weekly vocabulary lists, and were even pulled out of class if we were struggling and needed more personalized lessons. These varied methods taught me the importance of balanced reading instruction and made reading more enjoyable. Most importantly, it helped me gain skills to become a fluent reader.

Grace Dixon- 1.2 Reply

2025-09-14 02:39:23 UTC

The teacher is reading with all her students; this helps them with fluency because they are able to hear someone who is already fluent in reading. This ultimately helps students learn to repeat and practice reading, especially by correcting their pacing, pronunciation, and expressions. This also probably helps a lot of students with their confidence because all the students and the teachers are reading at the same time, limiting students' feelings of being singled out.

In my elementary school years, I experienced a lot of this type of learning approach. Choral reading really helped me when I was learning to read, mostly because it made me feel confident while reading. I didn’t feel pressured to memorize how to pronounce every word and felt a part of the group. Even if I were making mistakes, I could correct myself without feeling embarrassed. My teachers often practiced choral reading in smaller groups, but sometimes we did these exercises as a whole class. Though I think I learned more with this approach in a smaller group because my teacher could catch if I was struggling with certain parts of the reading and review those parts at the end of the reading.

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2025-09-15 00:14:20 UTC

Balanced reading instruction is a way of teaching reading to students with multiple different components. It teaches phonics, which includes teaching sounds and letters, phonemic awareness, which teaches students to recognize these sounds and use them, oral reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. This approach to teaching reading makes sure that children actually comprehend and learn literacy, rather than leaving holes in their reading education. It has a lot of reading, writing, and discussion in the classroom to make it effective for the students. I remember learning phonics in school, although at the time I had no idea that’s what it was, and having to repeat after the teacher as a whole class when she would pronounce all the letters in the alphabet. I also remember having many chances to read in class, independently, out loud, or listening to the teacher read, along with having vocabulary tests.

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2025-09-15 00:18:52 UTC

Early intervention is important to a student’s success in reading because, like stated in the video, most kids who struggle with reading and literacy skills early on don’t do well in the rest of their schooling. It is important to set students up for success from the beginning in order to help them achieve things throughout their educational career and even later in life. An important thing to note though is that intervention can also happen later, and then even if a student is not helped early on when they are struggling, there is still something to be done later in their schooling as well.

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2025-09-15 02:14:18 UTC

Early intervention is important in all kinds of education, along with literacy. If a student is having trouble with a skill, not intervening is only going to put them behind. It's normal for everyone to learn at different paces, so being intentional about the work given to students is important. This is were giving that help is very essential in the student moving forward, because if they move at the same pace as those who just get it, they will only fall even more behind. Catching it early helps everything in the long run and the work put in is very important.

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2025-09-15 02:17:01 UTC

The reading process is based on using known knowledge to set yourself up for success within reading. It uses cognitive skills to decode meaning in books and uses language to tell stories. I'm =very excited to read in classrooms, as a kid that was surrounded by books, it influenced my thinking and gave me a better vocabulary growing up. Seeing that progression in students is exciting for me to think about.