HOW ABOUT STUDENTS WHO CANNOT READ

COMPLEX TEXT?Keith Pruitt, Ed.S

Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting

www.woweducationalconsulting.com

Brain Gym

You have one minute to make as many words as possible from the following word.

Collaboration

One Size Fits All?

All of You Are Getting A New Pair of Shoes!!!!!

But I only have size 12s

One of the hidden dangers of Common Core is the mandate of putting students in rigorous text.

Text complexity works only when there are multiple scaffolds in place to enable students access to its message.

Without scaffolding, it is

merely throwing

students in books they

cannot read.

And isn’t that what we have done for the

past 100 years?

Two boys look up at a mountain. One says I can’t. The other says I will.

Keith Pruitt- Why I Didn’t Drop Out

What Three Scaffolds Can I Use in the

Classroom for those students who cannot read complex text?1. Lay the foundation!

2. Hearing Text!3. Read, Read, Read

One Would Never Dream of Building a House Without First Laying the Foundation

Lay The Foundation

Lesson Framework

• Phonemic Awareness

• Sound/Symbol Relationships

• Blending Sounds

• Spelling Words

• Sight Words

• Decodable Text

The New Dynamic of Phonics Instruction

• Phonological Awareness should come early

• Lessons Should be Short• Auditory Experience is brief

• Tactile experience is paramount to the instruction

• Connection should be made to print quickly

Students Need To Hear Text

By itself, auditory experiences only met the needs of about 10% of the students in your room.

70% of students are visual learners.

But when you combine the print graphonic with the auditory—you are working with all the effectiveness of both.

Ways Students Can Hear Text

1. Teacher recorded text using products like

2. Using on-line tools like http://www.benchmarkuniverse.com/

3. Have students read to each other

Read!Read!Read!

The Greatest Condition to Guarantee Student Success………

Lots and Lots of PracticeOutliers, study by

Malcolm Gladwell (2008) of conditions to lead to

extraordinary success the unifying factor between

piano players, NBA players, programmers, etc.

was HOURS OF PRACTICE

10,000 hours of Practice

How much time will theaverage student

themselves spend reading in the classroom in one

year?

640 MinutesLess than 10 out of

800 hours in school

That means the average child in an American school will spend less time engaged in reading in a year than the

average High School football team will spend practicing in one week!

Some Realities About Independent Reading

1.Students Need Choice!2.Students Need to Read

Lots of Text at their Independent Reading Level

3.Students Need High Interest Text

Just 20 minutes per

day!• Increases

vocabulary by up to 600 words/year• Increases

Comprehension

We want to read about spiders,

snakes, race cars and football players!

I like to read about rodeos and

horses.

It is hoped that in implementing these three fundamental steps in your ELL program (for all students, really), you can have a tremendous impact in student outcomes.

Remember,We Teach Students!

Thank You

Keith PruittWords of Wisdom

Educational Consulting