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How to teach children reading and spelling. Anna M. T. Bosman Special Education, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen The Netherlands a.bosman@pwo.ru.nl www.annabosman.eu. The problem. Reading delays 10-15% in regular education 73% in special education Spelling delays No data Main cause
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How to teach children reading and spelling Anna M. T. Bosman Special Education, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen The Netherlands a.bosman@pwo.ru.nl www.annabosman.eu
The problem • Reading delays • 10-15% in regular education • 73% in special education • Spelling delays • No data • Main cause • Neither intelligence nor background, but Quality of instruction
My goal Prevention of reading and spelling problems in special (and regular) education through Effective Instruction
With what? The method “How to teach children reading and spelling” (HTCRS; Schraven, 1994/2004) developed by José Schraven M.Ed.
Research questions • What is the effect of HTCRS? • What level can be reached with HTCRS? pertaining to students in special education
Mean age & scores on cognitive tasks SPM = Nonverbal intelligence; Raven VOC = Vocabulary; ≈ Peabody LTM = Long-term memory; 12-words test STM = Short-term memory; digit recall and backward digit recall
Conclusions • Reading and spelling is substantially and signficantly better in School X than Y and Z. • Reading performance of School X is at the level of regular education. • Spelling performance of School X is above the level of regular education.
Consistency levels of English and Dutch Letters English 69% Dutch 86% [di:r] deer/dear [par] pair/pear Tear Wind English 28% Dutch 37% Sounds
What makes HTCRS effective? What S p e l l R e a d i n g n g How
The ‘What’ • Structure • of the orthography using a well-defined framework (meta-cognition) • rules • ways of thinking • of exercises based on task analysis • Reading exercises prior to reading (phoneme blending) • Spelling exercises prior to spelling (phoneme segmentation)
The ‘How’ • Direct instruction • Teacher is model • Rows facing the teacher • Differentiation during group lesson • Orientation basis (Russian psychology) • Concrete goal • Practice each of the components • Integration in existing knowledge • Multi-sensory basis • Visual, auditory, and motor • Daily repetition & assessment • Each day same order of exercises • Each day a spelling test
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