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Struggling Readers

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.

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Struggling Readers

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  1. Struggling Readers How to Spot ‘em And What if You’ve Got ‘em Deb Morris, M.Ed., F/AOGPE

  2. 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.

  3. Identification: The Basics • Reversals • Omissions • Substitutions • Inversions • Additions

  4. 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!

  5. Literal versus figurative language • Difficulty with multiple-meaning words • Word Retrieval • Summarizing, synthesizing, and paraphrasing

  6. Problems finding the main idea • Lack of knowledge of phrase structure

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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…

  10. Tools Vocabulary Graphic Organizer Silent Reading Record Vocabulary Chart

  11. 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      

  12. 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.

  13. 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/

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