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Teaching Common Core Academic Vocabulary to Students with Dyslexia [Premium]

Academic Vocabulary are words that usually appear in higher educational settings or advanced texts rather than everyday conversational speech. Before the Common Core, most language arts programs had little emphasis on explicit teaching of academic words, but direct instruction is often very important for students with dyslexia because it contributes significantly to test performance and reading comprehension of complex texts…….

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The Fight over Rote Math

The Fight over Rote Math

…Helen Abadzi said: “People may not like the method like direct instructions ‘repeat after me’ – but they help stidemts remember over the long term…such techniques ensured that children acquired fluency and ‘automaticity’ in basic skills …prerequisites for higher order thinking.” Common Core Math Standards seem to side with The Times: “By the end of Grade 3, know from memory…

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Teaching Science to Students with Dyslexia – Middle School [Premium]

Teaching Science to Students with Dyslexia – Middle School [Premium]

…students with LD (Aydeniz et al., 2012). For dyslexic students, such a teaching approach may build on more intuitive problem solving, pattern recognition, novelty, and inductive learning (e.g. learning from examples then reasoning back to general principles). Scientific Reasoning and Scaffolding Argumentation With the Common Core, many school districts are requiring curricula like SWH or Scientific Writing Heuristic that teaches…

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…with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Gareth Cook Stealth Dyslexia: Flying Under the Radar of Detection Organization and Dyslexia The Problem with Math Common Core and Dyslexia Tips for Dyslexic Students and Common Core Math Drawing and Observing with Naturalist Jack Laws Dyslexia Accommodations: First Days of School – What to Say Why Working Memory Can Predict Reading Comprehension    …

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…Winning Journalist Gareth Cook Stealth Dyslexia: Flying Under the Radar of Detection Organization and Dyslexia The Problem with Math Common Core and Dyslexia Tips for Dyslexic Students and Common Core Math Drawing and Observing with Naturalist Jack Laws Dyslexia Accommodations: First Days of School – What to Say Why Working Memory Can Predict Reading Comprehension NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES      …

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Dyslexia and the NEW SAT [Premium]

Dyslexia and the NEW SAT [Premium]

…to be your friend.” Even the math section will require more reading, with fewer questions based on equations and more word problems. Some prompts will present the same type of real-world situations that the Common Core emphasizes — “The recommended daily calcium intake for a 20-year-old is 1,000 milligrams (mg). One cup of milk contains 299 mg….” Mr. Golumbfskie describes…

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Don’t Let Working Memory Prevent Math Learning

Don’t Let Working Memory Prevent Math Learning

…automatic frees up working memory. With working memory less burdened, the student can focus on solving the problem at hand. Thus, requiring explanations beyond the mathematics itself distracts and diverts students away from the convenience and power of abstraction. Mandatory demonstrations of “mathematical understanding,” in other words, can impede the “doing” of actual mathematics.” With the Common Core emphasis on…

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Dyslexia and IQ: What You Must Know [Premium]

Dyslexia and IQ: What You Must Know [Premium]

…compared to what they were when they were in elementary. Picture Concepts has been removed from the core subtests of the WISC-V – which although I understand it, is a bit of a pity as many dyslexics seem to excel on that task. The subtest involves looking at different clip art objects and saying what they have in common. One…

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Mind Mapping Math

Mind Mapping Math

…problems like the following: “Eight people go camping for 3 days and they must carry their own water. They read that 12 1/2 liters of water are need for a party of 5 people per day. How much water should they carry?” Where are the pieces of pie? Common Core Math has tried to address this confusion about fractions (half…

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Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Dyslexia with Machine Learning

Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Dyslexia with Machine Learning

…simply denotes poor reading achievement by another name. However, these contentions ignore a substantial body of research literature on dyslexia that has repeatedly identified a core group of subjects that, in the words of the World Federation of Neurology, share the common and readily recognizable experience that “despite conventional classroom experience, [they] fail to attain the language skills of reading,…

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Q & A: Can Someone Be Both Dyslexic and Autistic ? [Premium]

Q & A: Can Someone Be Both Dyslexic and Autistic ? [Premium]

common when a dyslexic student is suspected to also have high functioning autism is a student who has more significant visual or auditory processing difficulties or dyspraxia, resulting in greater difficulties with expression and trouble with quick back and forth social interactions. These students don’t have a core deficit in theory of mind or empathy. In our experience, what people…

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Finding Dyslexia: Don’t Delay

Finding Dyslexia: Don’t Delay

…before kindergarten), dyslexia identification is typically quite LATE. Elementary school is still the most common time when dyslexia is formally identified (58%), with middle school made up only 7% of the total having dyslexia formally identified then. Why is dyslexia identification so low in the middle school years? It might be that schools are less focused on literacy per se…

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