Assessing and Teaching Reading

Remedial Reading Methods and Programs

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Datacenter.com reports those below proficiency levels for the 4th and 8th grade. In Nebraska, we face 63% below proficiency levels in both grade levels, showing significant gaps in where we need to be as a state. Having more than half of our students below their grade level in reading causes ripples across the educational field.

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Offers a direct and systematic method in which to teach reading. This program has had more than 35 years of usage in school systems.

McGraw-Hill distributes this program.

Also offered by McGraw-Hill, Corrective Reading

Programs focus on decoding and

comprehension. This method helps children who struggle with understanding the phonics part of reading really grasp the materials.

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Developed in 1986 in Johns Hopkins University, this uses best practices in education to improve reading and math skills. What’s different?Technology is deeply embedded in daily teaching and learning. Students are highly motivated, engaged, noisy, and on task. The pace of instruction is fast, and the kids keep up with it. Every minute of teaching is well planned, exciting, and engaging. Learning is constantly monitored, and problems are solved the right way. Teachers teach the whole child—social and emotional learning, behavior, and cooperation are as important as academics.

Schools across the nation have tried SFA. There are grants of up to $50,000 available. Interestingly, Nebraska has never used the program.

Reading Recovery

A 12-20 Week Intervention aimed at 1st grade students, 74% will be at or above grade level in reading or writing.

Developed in New Zealand, it is used widely in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom

Multisensory Reading MethodsGreat for children with Autism, PDD-NOS, dyslexia, and any student who struggles with reading. Children use several different sensory tasks to help with reading. They use visual cues, tactical objects, and listening simultaneously. This helps keep children engaged and interested in reading.

Oral Reading Fluency Oral reading fluency-the

ability to read, speak, or write easily and smoothly. Fluent readers understand what they are reading easily, with little effort. These skills increase as learners progress from beginners to advanced writing.

This skill is one teachers often monitor by keeping portfolios of students work throughout their school years.

Reading aloud and discussing reading is the best way to increase and test oral fluency.

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Students work in small groups or pairs, to discuss paragraphs, read aloud, and to predict what will happen next. This type of reading helps increase language proficiency and comprehension, with the non-threatening friendship of their peers.

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Using word associations

students are able to more effectively remember words and vocabulary,

their spelling and meaning. By

matching words like “Radius” with

things like a “Radish”, a student

can effectively remember that a “Radius is like a Radish swinging

from the center”. This is also called

Mnemonics.

Reciprocal TeachingIn small groups, children take turns reading the story, predicting what will happen, questioning the story, and clarifying points.

Why do this???Students think bout their own process while reading. Students become actively involved and monitor themselves and their peers. Students question he reading to help comprehend their story.

Mapping Strategies

Helps students make visual connections between main ideas, characters, and story lines.

Can be used in any size story to help keep track of the plot

Helps keep a student on task when recalling major events of a story

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These books focus on readability. The goal is to improve a child’s reading content and abilities, through controlled books have been created to help students with reading problems, to improve reading strategies and to build comprehension skills.

Life Skills Reading These helps students

address their own personal life skills they need to tackle. These will typically be used for students with cognitive delays who need significant life skill training. Similar to “Social Stories”, they help with step by step instruction. This preparation can be very important for students entering into new phases of their lives or into new places.

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Reading is Reading! All reading helps increase the necessary skills of fluency, comprehension and vocabulary

Read anything, everything!

Text books, cookbooks, science books, comic books, cereal boxes….it doesn’t matter…find something that interests your student

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One of my favorite books right now is this one on Nikola

Tesla. The pictures, comic book layouts, designs, mixed with great information

caught my attention. I was surprised at

how easily the information was

given. I think this would be great for

the kid who needs to learn about history, or

an inventor, but struggles with

traditional texts. The information is

accurate, and fun to read. The pictures

and graphic catch the attention of several sensory modules.