Reading at Levinsky

Lia Rojtblat, 308745355

1. I wonder what about children who are born deaf or with impaired hearing, how does it influence their reading abilities? Do they start to read earlier or later? slower or faster?

2. Speaking as someone who learned to read in two languages at the age of 4 or so, I wonder if being bilingual (or trilingual) helps children to start reading faster or delay them like it often happens in production?

3. I know in spoken language acquisition there is a so called 'window' of opportunities, after which, the language cannot be acquired, or can be acquired very poorly. Does the ability to read have such a window? A person who never learned to read can do it at any stage/age?

4. I saw in the last section the differences between reading from a digital text or a printed one, I wonder what will happen to reading if some day people will only read in digital form. Will it have an evolutional consequence?

May Levy 323103176

1. What happen in a child's brain, and how does he learn when there are more than one language at home?

2. If there are more than one language at home, does it take more time to children learn how to speak?

3. Is the way children learn genetic?

4. If there are more than one language at home, does it affect the children learning skills at the future?

Tilanesh Kassa- 324326040

1. Is a child who reads quickly and in a guessing way can be called a good reader since he of course make mistakes and not accurate?

2. Is this research relate to every language?

3. Is it different when someone learns to read in his native language and in other one?

4. Can a parent build his child's phonological skills in reading before the learning?

5. Can the phonological skills be genetics regardless of what we do with the child in his development?

Lior Barel(212137772) and Shani Chen Gattegno (207769837)

1. How can I teach kids the different sounds the letters and the letter combinations make in the best way possible?

2. Why is the systematic phonics program better than the other programs?

3. How can I teach this program correctly?

4. Are there any more stategies I can teach my pupils to help them excel at reading?

Bar Hezroni 313523276 -

1. Are the methods presented in the study also suitable for children with learning disabilities or special needs?

2. It was stated in the article that you should start teaching how to sound out word at the age of 3-5. Are they native English speakers? Does this also apply to speakers of English as a second language?

3. It was stated in the article that the amount of time teachers should spend on teaching letters and sounds is 20 hours in total, with each lesson 25 minutes. Is time planning important? 20 hours in a course of what? months? Weeks?

4. Since the field of internet-based text enters our lives more and more and the world of the written text begins to disappear, what will they do in the future to overcome the changes that occur due to digital reading?

Avigail Nasierowska 345169874

1. How mwny times we should teach kids phonetics before they get it? should we repeat it every time we read in class?

2. How to teach phonetics in fun way?

3. Can you recommend easy books for Zayin normal level?

4. Why looking at text hearing it is not enough? what to do in the class?

5. What to do when class is mixed, few nonreaders, others read, how to teach then?

Zehava Ishai 329684047

Bar Hajaj 206158164

1. The article talks about research on kids that are native speakers, but did they reserch also on kids that aren't native speakers?

2. How do children learn to read without explicit instructions?

3. How do kids develop patterns of speech frome infancy if they have disabilities? (blind/deaf)

4. How can teachers motivate children to read?

5. What is the best way to teach kids a foreign language with different cognitive levels?

Racheli Hajaj 316393925

Yarin Adato 209399799

1. How can we help children learn foreign language easily?

2. How can we teach children recognise letters and connect them to sound?

3. How do kids that learn how to read without explicit instructions succeed to do it?

4. Why is the phonics programs that are most affective are those that are systematic?

5. What is the best strategy to help children learn to read?

Shlomi Golan

1. Is vocabulary knowledge part of the reading process? Can vocabulary knowledge be based on other means of learning, besides reading? Can we gain vocabulary knowledge by speech, following which we can make reading easier?

2. Teaching students, and remembering my early childhood reading experiences, when I read and knew the meaning of the vocabulary, reading was much enjoyable, fun, and curious. The opposite occurs, when reading and vocabulary words are unknown. Should we initially concentrate on increasing the volume of vocabulary knowledge rather than the act of reading? I feel that this complement the study, which was done in 2000, and is listed on the bottom of page 4 of the article (systematic reading programs).

3. The researchers have done great work at analyzing ways to teach kids to read. Has anyone researched the contents taught to read? Have scholars researched what would interest kids to read? What subject matters would stimulate reading within kids?

4. Researches are not conclusive of the amount of time spent on phonics introduction and quality of reading. Are stimulating reading environments increases the desire to read?

5. No mention was done in the way nowadays people and kids read. Today we are exposed to computers, mini-pads, smartphones, and other electronic devices, that are part of everyone’s daily life. I, myself, need the actual “paper” to read. My kids, and students I teach, use their phone. Do we need to adjust the way we teach how to read with new technologies we are exposed to? Can these new technologies actually stimulate new readers by introducing “on-the-spot” vocabulary definition?

6. I have been teaching English, Mathematics, and Financial Education intensely for the past 3 months, here in Israel. I’ve also been teaching sporadically in the US for the past 10 years as well. I’ve realized a tremendous decline in reading within kids, teenagers, and adults. Moreover, students whom I ask, declare that reading is boring, not interesting, time consuming, and a waste. Aren’t we as adults at fault? Shouldn’t we create more interesting reading material for continually changing cultures? Generation changes, also require updating subjects taught. Are we updating their curriculum to stimulate them to read?

Gilly Behar 322634932

Alisa Masterskich 211649603

Our questions:

1. Do the brains of the children who figure out by themselves how to read without explicit instruction, develop differently?

2. It seems that the article talks mainly about native speakers, did they research also on kids who aren’t native speakers?

3. In the article, they spoke about synthetic phonics and analytic phonics, and which is better, why not using both? Giving the fact they are both effective while learning to read.

4. The article points the importance of vocabulary when developing reading skills, are there other things that the teacher can teach or use in order to encourage the pupils to read?

Hila Rahamim 207898271

1. What can we do when pupils switch between letters in words while reading?

2. How can we expose pupils to vocabulary and grammar through books? Is it enough just to read it to them? or we need to mention that in a specific word there is a certin rule?

3. How reading out loud can assist children's reading when they don't read yet? (in pre-school for example). Can we combine it even if they aren't exposed to English in their homes?

4. Should we teach the pupils difficult words from the text before reading it so it will make the reading easyer for them?

Shimrit Keynan - Gvili

046258208

Noy Shriki 315116855

       Our Questions:

1.Why is the systematic, explicit phonics instruction is a better stragedy than others?

2.What teaching stragedy would be the best method to teach children how to read?

3.Is it wizer to teach children both symboles and meanings

+ words as wholes?

4. Would it be right to teach systematic explicit phonics instruction in every language.

5.Althrough there are children that cant read, teachers choose independent choice reading in their class. Is it the right choice?

Liza Tokman 211787197

Q: 1. What is the most effective way to teach kids a foreign language?

2. Can reading tactics be applied to other learning tasks in life?

3. Does the way of learning how to read matter?

4. Does over consumption of media affect our reading skills?

Bar Sagiv 207814492

Alexandra Goldenberg 211894910

1. How are the kids understand the combinations between letters and different sounds?

2. At what age do you start teaching kids reading?

3. Do you teach kids grammar before pronunciations?

4. Do you need to teach kids to talk while they read?

5. What are the subjects that are important to teach for long term sucsses?

Our names are

Shir Hayal 313133068

Lior Marom 206712200

Our questions are:

1. Why do children learn to read differently than the way they learn to speak?

2. Is learning to read truly a natural process, like speaking?

3. How do children learn to read?

4. What different strategies there are to help children learn how to read?

5. How should phonic instructions be taught?

My name:

 aharona

 Here are my questions: