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Struggling Adolescent Readers: How to support your student with a Learning Disability

Struggling Adolescent Readers: How to support your student with a Learning Disability. Presentation by Kristin Blain 8 th Grade Resource Teacher Lakeshore Middle School. www.adlit.org. teachersites.schoolworld.com. Today we will discuss:. Learning Disabilities Reading Decoding

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Struggling Adolescent Readers: How to support your student with a Learning Disability

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  1. Struggling Adolescent Readers:How to support your student with a Learning Disability Presentation by Kristin Blain 8th Grade Resource Teacher Lakeshore Middle School www.adlit.org teachersites.schoolworld.com

  2. Today we will discuss: • Learning Disabilities • Reading Decoding • Decoding Strategies www.pearse-trust.ie

  3. What is a Learning Disability? • LD affects the brain’s ability to receive, process, store, respond to, and communicate information • NOT an intellectual disability • Average to above average intelligence • Struggling to acquire new skills impacts school performance • No apparent cause for LD (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2013) KinaLearn.com: How a Dyslexic Brain Works- A simple Demonstration

  4. Common Types of Learning Disabilities

  5. Startling Statistics… • Secondary students with a Learning Disability (LD) experience significant deficits in reading when compared to other students in their grade level • Dropout rate for students with LD was estimated at 31.6 % as compared to 9.4 % for students with no disabilities (U. S. Dept. of Education, 2007c) • Only 11% of students with LD, as compared to 53% of students in the general education population, have attended a four-year postsecondary program within two years of leaving high school (National Longitudinal Study II, 2003) blog.zucklaw.com

  6. The Vicious Cycle… (Moats, 2002)

  7. The Reality: • A wealth of evidence shows that intensive, high-quality literacy instruction can help students who are struggling build the skills they need to succeed in high school and beyond (Biancarosa & Snow, 2004). www.goodfinancialcents.com

  8. How You Can Help • Students with learning disabilities can be very successful in school • It is up to parents, guardians, and teachers to work together to develop a system that will work for the student • Implement simple but helpful strategies with your student at home

  9. Key Literacy Component: Decoding • Decoding (word identification), refers to the ability to correctly decipher a particular word out of a group of letters. • Two skills involved in decoding: • Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual units of sound. These units of sound are called phonemes (i.e. /k/,/a/, and /t/, form the word cat). • Phonics is the understanding of the relationship between the letters in written words and the sounds of these words when spoken. Students use this understanding as the basis for learning to read (recognize familiar words and pronounce new words) and write. (National Institute for Literacy, 2008)

  10. Key Literacy Component: Decoding Cont. • If decoding is not fully developed by adolescence, students experience difficulty when they encounter new words • Research supports instruction in decoding, word recognition, and spelling helps improve phonemic awareness for students who have difficulty understanding how to blend sounds to articulate unfamiliar words (National Institute for Literacy, 2008) blogs.ksbe.edu

  11. About Decoding Strategies • Adolescents with decoding difficulties need more intensive practice to develop their reading skills more thoroughly both in and out of school • Both phonics and phonemic awareness instruction should occur using the language used in educational settings • Focus on only one or two strategies at a time www.spelloutloud.com (National Institute for Literacy, 2008)

  12. Decoding Strategies to Try • Research-based recommendations (with each strategy, you model and have your student repeat): • When looking at new vocabularywords, articulate each syllable slowly (i.e.,e-co-sys-tem), pausing slightly between the syllables. Repeat this articulation several times. • Point out patterns in the pronunciation and spelling of prefixes, suffixes, and vowels in selected words (i.e.,rac-ism, sex-ism, age-ism, etc.). • Point out similarities and differences among words that belong to "word families" (e.g., define, definitely, definition). (National Institute for Literacy, 2008)

  13. Let’s Practice! *Please refer to your parent activityhandout Teach your student to begin their homework by looking at the section vocabulary Appleby, Ph.D., J., Brinkley, Ph.D., A., Broussard, Ph.D., A. S., McPherson, Ph.D., J. M., & Ritchie, D. A. (2009). Social reform. In Americana journey: Early years (p. 418). Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill.

  14. Remember… • Adolescent readers who struggle with decoding need extra time to decode each word AND to apply their higher order thinking skills to fully comprehend the text that they read (National Institute for Literacy, 2008) • Encourage your student to self-advocate for the extra time that they will need for reading in and out of the classroom • Practicing these decoding strategies at homewill help your student feel more confident and comfortable using them at school theredranch.blogspot.com

  15. The Moral of the Story… • With research-based strategies, encouragement, and persistence, your student canand will achieve great things! MedicalNewsOnline: Overcoming Learning Disabilities

  16. References • Appleby, Ph.D., J., Brinkley, Ph.D., A., Broussard, Ph.D., A. S., McPherson, Ph.D., J. M., & Ritchie, D. A. (2009). Social reform. In Americana journey: Early years (p. 418). Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill • Manzo, C. (Actor). McGraw, P., & McGraw, J. (Producer).(2012). Overcoming Learning Disabilities [Online video]. Hollywood: CBS Television Distribution. Retrieved April 7, 2013, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AzqbCUnRs2Q • Moats, L. (2002). When older students can't read. In LD Online. Retrieved April 1, 2013, from http://www.ldonline.org/article/When_Older_Students_Can%27t_Read • National Institute for Literacy. (2008). Key literacy component: Decoding. In all about Adolescent Literacy. Retrieved February 7, 2013, from http://www.adlit.org/article/27875/ • National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities. (2008, June). Adolescent literacy and older students with learning disabilities: A report from the national joint committee on learning disabilities. In LD Online. Retrieved February 10, 2013 • NCLD Editorial Team. (2013). What are learning disabilities?. In National Center for Learning Disabilities. Retrieved April 1, 2013, from http://www.ncld.org/types-learning-disabilities/what-is-ld/what-are-learning-disabilities • QuestGarden, Inc. (2011). Prefixes and suffixes. In QuestGarden. Retrieved April 7, 2013, from http://questgarden.com/106/93/3/100719150625/files/Prefix.pdf • Vogel, D. (Narrator). (2011). How a dyslexic brain works [Online video]. KinaLearn.com. Retrieved February 25, 2013, from http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgvs28_kinalearn-com-how-a-dyslexic-brain-works-a- simple-demo_people#.UWIQsZPviSo

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