12/12/12 assignment

1. Students fell short of expected knowledge on a vocabulary exam.
2. This did not surprise him, due to his experience as a teacher.
3. Vocabulary limitations are connected to early childhood(areas of life, family income, home circumstances).
4. A NAEP report confirms these ideas.
5. Further states examples of not knowing expected words for that age.
6. Still more examples of students needing help to understand certian words. (knowing the difinitions)
7. It doesn't always matter what income level they have and the area of learning/growing up.
8. Students whom have a higher vocabulary read more.
9. Students with weak vocabularies can't read well, so the cycle continues.
10. It is not the failing school system, it's the families.
11. Multi-media programs(movies, television, social networking sites) are not improving, more like degrading, vocabulary and reading skills.
12. Those mainly responsible for this are the parents.
13. Richer families are able to spend money and time to expose their children to literature.
14. Lack of knowledge of social, economic, political, and scientific realities also lead to poor reading comprehension.
15. The difference between good readers and poor readers has to do with the differences in the knowledge that they bring to reading.
16. The author can prove and agree with the previous statement in paragraph 15. Family encouragement at home helps good readers.
17.
The author can prove and agree with the previous statement in paragraph 15.Distractions prevent good readers.
18. Exposing your kids to words at three or four start the foundations of a strong vocabulary.
19. You can still impact after the ages of three and four by shaping the home environment with rich materials around them.



In John T. Tierney's article, Vocabulary and Reading: Give Your Kids a Fighting Chance, he argues that many of todays children are far behind what is expected for their age groups and the causes, as well as the ways we can start to fix this.

There are three main causes of our children are far behind on their education, and there are three ways we can prevent or fix this problem: John states that multi-media programs distract kids from reading, writing, and other learning opertunities put aside; parents, according to John, have the biggest impact on children, what with their wage levels, area of life, and home circumstances; and sudents with weak vocabularies can't read well, so the cycle continues. Having a good vocabulary has a big impact on a persons life, and there are many factors to having one: starting at the age of 3 or 4, one can start to develope their childs vocabulary and reading comprehension; having a rich environment (both financialy and literaly,literaly meaning with many words in this context) at home encourages reading and vocabulary literacy; and having support from family members increases the chances of being literate