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Education is a very important aspect of one's life. To this lies the future growth and success of everybody. However, there are various challenges to successful education.

Hayes and Flowers' individual-social model (modified since 1980) is one of the foremost models of writing that is used to teach reading on various level. It comprises two main characteristics, the individual and the environment and, therefore, Hayes has called it the "indivdiuo-environmental model'. The individual factor (The "Individual") constitutes the writer's cognition, emotion,and memory system. These three components work via several characteristics: 1. Motivation-Affects – these are: (a) the writer's objective in writing (Goals) plus his attitude and motivation (Beliefs and Attitudes). (b) guidelines regarding the fact that the writer will be involved in a long-term task (Predispositions) and approximation of the cost of the writing project (Cost/ benefit Estimates). 2. Cognitive – which is related to the cognitive part of writing and composed of three characteristics (a) Reflection which transforms one piece of knowledge into another piece of knowledge. They facilitate the 'reasoning' or problem solving part of the activity (b) 'Text interpretation' – reader reads text and works on comprehending transcribed information. This either reinforces reader's previous assumptions, or makes him/ her revise them and form new understanding © Text production – enables readers to transcribe into linguistic form, I..e to put what he/ she has read into written or oral form – to transliterate it in her particular way. 3. Long term memory - the process by which the reading is conveyed to long-term memory. Five components are involved: (a) Genre knowledge – the type of text used (b)Audience knowledge – the one receiving the text © Linguistic knowledge – the linguistic elements of the text necessary for its undertaking (d) Topic knowledge – the topic/ content of the text (e) Task schema – the directions that are used to guide the accomplishment of the the task. These three components - Motivation/ Affect, Cognitive, and Long-term memory – are all linked together and all are necessary for the successful reading and transliteration of the text. Taking the beginning reader story " I can read: Morse goes to school" as example, the reader has to be motivated to read, enjoy reeding, and, as equally important, have the goal of reading the book in the first place. Secondly, the reader has to have the ability of reflecting upon the words and understanding that the separate semantics spell into a humorous story pointing to the importance of reading. Motivation to read is only part of the story: able to reflect upon the whole and form a pattern is essential too. Finally, the whole has to be integrated into memory for the reader to use later, to convey to another, and to interpret in his/ her particular way. Each component also influences the other. For instance, the more motivated the reader is, the more likely it will be that the reading will register in his memory.

Learning disabilities (LD) are commonly seen as organically-based disorders affecting a small percentage of children and that interferes with their ability to learn to read and write normally (Sleeter 2010).

This paper examines the attitude-influence model of reading, and how it can be used in a lesson plan. Included in the work, in addition to a lesson plan, is a summary of the model, resources that would be helpful when writing about the model, and a graphic representation of the model. The goal is to show how the attitude-influence model can be used in order to help foster interest in reading.

LeapFrog is a respected and beloved company that makes products that look like toys, but with an educational purpose. This is its core company identity, as it has suffered through many fads in both the toy industry and…

Reading disabilities pose one of the greatest threats to a child's learning, since all other subjects become reliant on comprehension as education progresses. English as a second language (ESL) students have additional…

Teaching Methods in Education: Teaching Reading Fluency

Here is the abstract for the paper: Violence in media has become a serious problem. Children are heavily exposed to violence in films, TV shows, and video games from their early ages. This heavy exposure to violence may lead to aggressive and violent behavior, encouraging children to see violence as normal. And because of the popularity of violence in media and the fact that children today represent a very lucrative market, the entertainment industry takes advantage of this situation by targeting children for their products that glorify violence. In essence, the producers of violent media content and video games are guilty of child exploitation. To address the problem, the public needs greater regulation of violence in media to protect children.

Scenario #3 -- the Use of Literature in the Classroom Program- Level

The brain is divided into two hemispheres - the left and the right brain - separated by a fold that runs from the front to the back. The two hemispheres are connected to one another by the corpus collosum, a thick cable…