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Learn how to spot struggling readers and provide effective intervention strategies. Discover identification basics, remediation techniques, tools, and recommended reading resources for helping readers improve their skills and succeed in reading.
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Struggling Readers How to Spot ‘em And What if You’ve Got ‘em Deb Morris, M.Ed., F/AOGPE
Matthew Effect • Good readers gain an increasingly stronger language base with which to be even more successful readers. • If a student fails to become a proficient reader by third grade, he is going to struggle when he has to start to read to learn in 4th grade.
Identification: The Basics • Reversals • Omissions • Substitutions • Inversions • Additions
Identification: The Basics • Words consist of sounds • Problems with voiced and unvoiced consonants • Voiced /v/ and unvoiced /f/ - safe/save; leaf/leave • Voiced /b/ and unvoiced /p/ - cob/cop; bent/pent THERE ARE RULES!
Literal versus figurative language • Difficulty with multiple-meaning words • Word Retrieval • Summarizing, synthesizing, and paraphrasing
Problems finding the main idea • Lack of knowledge of phrase structure
Remediation Orton-Gillingham Phonology – Morphology - Comprehension - Certified through the Academy of Orton- Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (AOGPE) - Flexible, structured, and designed to meet the needs of the individual. - Practitioners are not tied to particular texts.
Tools 3-2-1 Worksheet - Expository Text: - 3 facts - 2 questions - 1 piece you found interesting - Narrative Text: - 3 main ideas - 2 questions - 1 prediction
Tools Double-Entry Diaries - Text to (Self, Text, World) - activates schema - students remember what is meaningful to them - I Visualize… - particularly challenging for struggling readers - I’m confused…
Tools Vocabulary Graphic Organizer Silent Reading Record Vocabulary Chart
O.G. Stats: 2006 - 2011 16% Increase of 2+ GL in 3 months 29% Increase of 2 GL in 6 months 26% Increase of 2 GL in 12 months 13% Increase of 3 GL in 24 months 3% Increase of 2 GL in 36 months 10% Maintained initial GL 3% Lost one GL after a year of instruction
Recommended Reading I Read It, But I Don’t Get It, by Cris Tovani Writing Skills, by Diana Hanbury King Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Books for Struggling Readers High Interest, Low Level Books: www.orcabook.com http://www.sdlback.com/estore/search/ http://www.townsendpress.com/our-books/bluford-series/