…Audiobooks are not a replacement for structured literacy instruction when children or adults struggle with basic decoding – that is necessary. But if you want to get someone hooked on reading for pleasure as well as help catch them up with the learning through books that their classrooms demand, audiobooks may be a rocket pack for learning. Yvonna: “The pushback…
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…seldom used. That should be a caveat to us all. There is so much to learn with structured literacy and often very little training about how to use visual materials or manipulatives. If we hadn’t used these ourselves to learn, we may gravitate to the verbal parts of lessons and students who need this approaches will miss out. Research reviews…
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…want to avoid reading all together. If there has to be repetition is there a way to make it less dreadful or unpleasant? As a reminder, reading fluency practice doesn’t take the place of structured literacy intervention; it’s only one aspect of reading instruction and particularly can help with students who are trying to make a smoother transition from choppy…
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…they notice they are making improvements, it will get even easier to do. Avoid long sessions and work with a manageable incremental stepwise structured literacy curriculum. LISTEN TO YOUR STUDENT AND LISTEN TO YOURSELF Research from UCSF suggests that dyslexic students are more emotionally sensitive to other people and situations than their non-dyslexic peers. In the midst of the ongoing…
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…a good idea to reward students who are enjoying a particular tasks (also known as intrinsic motivation) because the task is a reward in itself. But do reward students when tasks are not particularly enjoyable and might be quite difficult (like proofreading work or structured literacy work). Short-term rewards (games or media time, any type of treats) are usually better…
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…be found in a wide range of curricula for reading, writing, spelling, and memory / auditory processing. Lindamood Bell’s Visualizing and Verbalizing, for instance, trains students to match pictures to words while reading or listening – with corrective feedback to avoid false memories or tangents. These visual approaches don’t take the place of important decoding and structured literacy work….
…funny that you mentioned that…even in structured literacy, Orton Gillingham, all these kinds of things, multi-sensory instruction, there’s not an essential component where the curriculum says, tell the students what you’re doing, can they can get a big picture of what they’re working on… I understand why the little picture and the details are so important. But if you also…
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…contributes to improved processing speed – but training and education take time. At the beginning of their education, what many students need is a little bit of everything – visual work, error checking, decision-making, structured literacy to improve decoding and reading automaticity and fluency. Students also need some gentle pressure to do the things that are difficult to do and…
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…wonder students are confused if they are trying to make sense of the words that correspond to number representations in math. Better to explicitly teach the teen numbers as being the opposite direction of the ty numbers (twenty one, thirty two etc.) than have them continually get confused about their names.”As some Orton-Gillingham or structured literacy curricula do, if you…
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