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What does it feel like to have a learning disability in reading?

8/29/2020

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​Do you know w​hat it feels like to be a student who has a learning disability in reading?

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​Do you want to know w​hat it feels like to be a student who has a learning disability in reading?

Let me give you a chance to feel what it feels like!
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Let's pause for a moment of reflection! 

​Ask yourself: 

How did you do? 

​How did you feel as you were reading?

After we ask students to read a passage, we ask them comprehension questions to assess their understanding of the text, right? 

Do you think you can answer some comprehension questions about what you just read?  

Let's try!

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So w​hat does it feel like to be a student who has a learning disability in reading?

By: Miss Rae
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Specially Designed Reading Instruction

11/29/2019

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When we start to think about Specially Designed Reading Instruction, I think it is helpful to start by viewing it in light of the continuum of instruction...or the RTI triangle!
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Let's look at each Tier a little more closely...
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IDEA tends to be our course textbook in Special Education - if you will.  So what does IDEA say about Specially Designed Instruction?
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Using a student's evaluations, determine the areas of reading in which the student demonstrates lagging skills and/or a disability.  Incorporate those targeted areas into a student's IEP goals, and then, instruction.  Now, we can check off the first component of some pricey packaged curriculum!
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The next step in designing Specially Designed Reading Instruction is to be explicit in your instruction.  Click the slideshow below for Explicit teaching tips!
To be systematic, you should follow a scope and sequence for your instruction.  This should be a logical sequence to get a student closer to a grade level standard.

So let's say the student's grade level standard is to read CVCe words.  The following would be a logical progression to mastery of that standard:

1. advanced phonemic awareness skills
2. letter identification
3. letter/sound identification
4. VC words (decoding and encoding)
5. CVC words (decoding and encoding)
6. CVCe words (decoding and encoding)

Below is another example of a scope and sequence...
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In order to help students achieve these steps to mastery (and oh, you know, try to do it while simultaneously learning other new curriculum like their general education peers), employ multi-sensory learning!  Make sure to always include a spiraling review of previously learned skills for reinforcement, and most importantly, teach all components of reading, just focus more time and intensity on a students lagging skill areas AND do it all through multi-sensory learning!
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It is essential that this instruction be applied in the classroom to generalize the skill.  When Specially Designed Reading Instruction is paired with reading time in the classroom with a general education teacher, a student will make faster progress!
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Lastly, I know I probably don't have to say this, but I wouldn't feel right not saying it - as with all Special Education students, the most important step in designing Specially Designed Reading Instruction is to Adapt & Modify for individual student needs!

Also, don't forget that a student eligible for Special Education services may not require distinctly different methodologies or interventions, but rather increased intensity. Or a student may require both!  But ultimately, we should be giving a student what they need, not just because we can offer it.  Our goal for Special Education should be to teach independent application of skills and strategies.

By Miss Rae

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