…however, next steps may get murky if a student fails to respond. If you have a student who has had trouble making progress with their IEP, then consider if the curriculum that they are being given is a good fit for them. Can I request an Orton-Gillingham / structured literacy tutor? You can read more about this topic in the…
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…stealth dyslexia are still necessary in formal education, but some may choose to step back from structured literacy interventions once they are at this point (some may also decide to continue, to help with writing fluency and spelling). HOW DO STEALTH OR COMPENSATED DYSLEXICS SUCCEED IN HIGHER ED? Dr. Fumiko Hoeft and her colleagues have made some interesting…
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…can be difficult troubleshooting and assessing the student’s performance. Sometimes English learners are assigned to dyslexia classes because it may be thought to be the best available alternative to a general classroom. However, bilingual students who aren’t dyslexic may not need all the structured literacy lessons and practice. Ideally, they would best be grouped with other English language learners. Without…
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…family knows and loves and scripts by their very nature have plenty of white space between lines to make for easier reading. If you have a student who has been working hard at a structured literacy program, but still has a way to go, then taking an individual lesson-type approach and helping them do a little bit at a time…
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…to understand are professional readers of audiobooks who read with liveliness and drama. Older students and adults may be able to transition to electronic voices, especially if they can be sped up. PHONICS AND STRUCTURED LITERACY Blending Board, iOS FREE (below) creates free customizable deck of phonemes. Also includes multisyllabic words. PHONICS GENIUS (below) is 99 cents on iOS…
If dyslexic students are struggling to decode words, a program of intensive structured literacy will help – but help with phonological awareness may not be sufficient to help them become fluent readers. Why? Because reading fluency, or the ability to read with “speed, accuracy, and proper expression” is also influenced by other factors such as rapid naming. Recently researchers…
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…scaffolding takes too much time – but when she gave students blanks to completely fill out, many students shut down and and didn’t write anything at all. Scaffolding is teaching. If the goal is to have every student learn – scaffolding builds step-by-step, just as structured literacy starts with the smallest building blocks of reading. Do check out the…
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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…
…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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Almost every structured literacy program uses letter tiles and flashcards. The reason for this is that there are so many word parts and whole words to learn and the use of tiles and cards can give students visual support as they focus on various letters, letter groups, and their sounds while building up reading fluency. Some students may have difficulty…
