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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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…a page. We also talked about the importance of structured literacy, but I agree with her that that should not be the only thing dyslexic students experience in education when they are growing up. There should be something that a child has that really ignites a passion. Something where they can go deep in thinking and learning about, and if…
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…on poor reading and not identifying dyslexic students who have this discrepancy; instead of structured literacy, it touts RTI or Response to Intervention to sort through student needs although RTI delays help for students with specific LDs like dyslexia. IQ TESTING CAN PROVIDE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION TO HELP STUDENTS Although IQ testing is not infallible and alternative testing (or re testing)…
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…problems could avoid many problems later. It’s similar to the practice of providing immediate corrective feedback in Orton-Gillingham or structured literacy programs. If students incorrectly apply principles or methods, they will have to unlearn these possible solutions in addition to learn correct ways later. At right is a nice example of a Frayer model showing the definition of a prime…
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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….
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… The games include sorts, slap-it and bingo, hopping along, and cover spelling rules, prefixes, suffixes, homonyms, The cards are all color-coded to match Barton Tiles. Many different structured literacy programs have useful tips students remember different sight words. For instance, again from the Barton system: Linda Farrell and her colleagues wrote a helpful article at Reading Rockets…
There’s an interesting paper by Hord and colleagues that showed how a secondary math teacher supported a student with LD and math anxiety using gestures. Gestures can sometimes be used to help remember and retrieve math actions and relationships in long-term memory. Gestures are like kinesthetic activities in Orton-Gillingham / structured literacy programs.. One example of a gesture is using…
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…they are saying the words correctly may be essential. These supports may not be necessary for many dyslexic students; however, if a student is failing to progress on a comprehensive structured literacy program, it might be valuable to see whether auditory processing or another program with multisensory supports for registering sounds correctly may be helpful. WATCHING TEACHERS’ MOUTHS SEEMS TO…
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…textbooks and structured literacy programs can be found on the site – so all you need is to find the deck and use it for your own practice. These are multisensory cards with pictures and audio, and an option to record for a Premium subscription ($3.99). A lot of practice can still be had on their free account. The cards…
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…of the different ways they are solved. CARD SORTS FOR MATH EXAMPLES AND NEW VOCABULARY As card sorts can be used for structured literacy and recognizing phoneme patterns (example HERE, Words Their Way), word sorts can also be used for all sorts of purposes in math. For example below, from Amazing Mathematics (Teachers Paying Teachers) The Math Equals…
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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…
