A Reading Resource to Teach Multiple Meanings Created by: Roxanne Helene Clanin

1. Little Stories, Little Words, Many Meanings A Reading Resource to Teach Multiple Meanings Created by: Roxanne Helene Clanin CAL-ED Conference March 7, 2015 Presented by: Carol Hajdu, Jennifer Burnett, and Sam Mullins

2. Roxanne Helene Clanin https://sites.google.com/site/roxanneclaninmemorial/csun The Little Stories, Little Words, Many Meanings website will be continued and maintained by Roxanne’s DHH teaching colleague Carol Hajdu, with assistance from Jennifer Burnett and Sam Mullins

3. How and why this project began: • Roxanne Claninwas an LAUSD D/HH teacher for over 25 years. She taught D/HH students at Multnomah Elementary School and D/HH students with special needs at Marlton School for the Deaf Inspired by: • EQTDHH* workshops, 2011-2013, which focused on developing D/HH teacher skills in implementing the Common Core State Standards in English-Language Arts (CCSS-ELA) • Fairview Training, November 2013

4. The IllustratorMarie Pedrigal • Roxanne wrote 43 stories that targeted words with multiple meanings • Each of these stories were illustrated by a 21 year old deaf student, Marie Pedrigal, from Miller Career and Transition Center

5. The IllustratorMarie Pedrigal

6. The illustrations

7. What are Dolch sight words? • “Pesky Sight Words” as Roxanne would say • Sight words: commonly used words • Young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight • Automatically recognized in print without decoding

8. DHH Students and Sight Words • Multiple meaning sight words are a challenge for emergent readers • Sight words may not be depicted in ASL or in pictures • Miscues prevent the reader from fully understanding the text

9. Multiple Meaning Words

10. Common Core State Standards • CCSSaddress knowledge of sight words, reading comprehension skills, and understanding of multiple meanings of words

11. Common core connection • Language Anchor Standard • Vocabulary Acquisition and Use:4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate

12. Fairview Learning LLC • Students learn multiple meanings and multiple signs of sight words • To truly comprehend print, D/HH students must sign the Dolch words using ASL concepts • Adapted Dolch Sight Words included in the 5 Program Components http://www.fairviewlearning.com/

13. “Fairview’s unique program provides individuals the literacy tools to construct mental, linguistic frameworks. These frameworks, specific to each user, allow access and increasing fluency in English and ASL, and ease the movement between the two languages.”

15. Adapted Dolch Words • Fairview focuses on teaching D/HH students basic sight words which will help them gain understanding when interacting with text using Adapted Dolch Sight words: • Pre-Primer • Primer • 1st Grade • 2nd Grade • 3rd grade • Little Stories were created • using this word list http://www.fairviewlearning.com/

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20. Roxanne’s Vision • Roxanne wanted to tackle those “pesky sight words” • 43 Little Stories with multiple meaning sight words • Worksheets accompanying each story • Sentences in isolation identifying the multiple meaning • ASL Videos accompanying each of the stories

22. Little Stories • 43 stories to support D/HH students’ internalization of multiple meaning sight words in context • Standards-based tool to integrate into curriculum • Adaptable to fit different needs of different D/HH classrooms • 5 Dolch Words per story including multiple meanings for each targeted sight word • Stories are in levels instead of grades based on Dolch words • Note* stories are based on Dolch word level, NOT on the actual reading level of the passage

23. Worksheets • Literal and inferential questions • Utilizes ASL (expressive and receptive) and English (reading and writing) • Citing text-based evidence • Multi-media resources to access information • Flexible tool to adapt with any teaching style, curriculum or current unit

24. Worksheets: Back to ccss • CCSS emphasizes that all students need to be 21st Century ready by utilizing technology and developing skills in the 4 C’s- • Communication • Collaboration • Critical Thinking • Creativity • “Students employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking and listening and language use. They tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently and they integrate what they learn through technology with what they learn offline.” (www.cde.ca.gov)

25. Sentences • Sentences in Isolation : available for each of the stories • Excellent tool for literacy centers

26. Little stories “The Ball”

27. Little Stories“The Ball” Worksheets

28. Little Stories“The Ball” Sentences

29. Little Stories “The Cake”

30. Little Stories“The Cake” Worksheets modified

31. Little Stories“The Cake” Worksheets modified

32. Little Stories in action“The Cake” Sentences Literacy Center

33. Little Stories in action“The Cake”

34. Little Stories in actionYour Turn: “THE SNAKE”

35. Authentic Text • Little Stories gives emergent readers the opportunity to apply their skills of deciphering multiple meaning words in other contexts • Reading A-Z is an online reading resource with a collection of over 2,500 downloadable books. http://www.readinga-z.com/

36. Authentic Text http://www.readinga-z.com/

37. To-Dos • Editing and refining the Little Stories • ASL videos

38. The blog www.littlestorieslittlewords.wordpress.com