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Phonemic Awareness Programs

by reading teacher

Sep 15, 2010

I have a student who is in desperate need of a PA program. I'm debating between Road to the Code or Sounds Sensible. Which would be better in a private tutoring session? The child has sound-symbol correspondence, but no ability to manipulate phonemes (segment, change or blend).

Funny thing is, he has such a great memory, that he has memor...See More

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Kenny Teaching Reading Strategies has loads of PA activities designed for 8-adult. Also has helpful diagnostic assessments, which you can copy for free at [link removed]

Perfect for RtI

Oct 1, 2010

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Nicole/MO The LIPS (auditory discrimination in depth) is a great program to stengthen phonemic/phonological awarentss. They also put out a program called "Seeing Stars" which is worth taking a look at. Both programs primarily use nonsense words, which are very important to ensure that students are using decoding strategies to figure out a word rather than gu...See More

Oct 5, 2010

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F&P BAS reading rate

by Cathy

Oct 5, 2010

Has anyone looked at the Benchmark Assessment Expected Oral Reading Rate table? The OR rates seem awfully high to me when I compare them to other tables. Am I overlooking something? Thanks. Cathy

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Help!! Book On Loser

by Amy

Oct 6, 2010

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Hi my name is Amy and I'm new to this site. I wanted to ask a quick question on this book. My poor daughter is so upset because she forgot her book at school and needs to know one question from the book Loser by Jerry Spinelli. If anyone know the below question please let me know. I have been searching all over the web and can't find ...See More

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Entrance Criteria for Reading Resource

by kg

Oct 6, 2010

What assessment(s) do you use to qualify students for reading resource at the elementary level? For first grade, we use the Obs. Survey, and in grades 2-5 we use the Rigby Benchmark Kit (running records of leveled books). I'm concerned that at the upper levels, the Benchmark Kit skews a bit "easy" even though the text is leveled. It just seems that...See More

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Bump Well we just kind of look at the needs for the current year based on Observation Survey and Obs. Survey (partial), and just take on the neediest students for each year. Yes, I do some parts of the Observation Survey on even students in Gr. 4-5, Hearing and Recording sounds, etc. It is scary what you can find out when you do that activity. So, basic...See More

Oct 22, 2010

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Urgent Intensive reading ideas needed

by Deb ms/IA

Oct 6, 2010

rincipal came to me today and siad he wants to implement an intensive reading program for the next 5 weeks to get ready for the ITBS. We are a SINA as of now and we do need to get going. Just wish he would have asked for this last may so I could do some research and put together something (oh wait I and the math teacher did suggest this last May!)....See More

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Sara On 10/06/10, Deb ms/IA wrote: > Principal came to me today and siad he wants to implement > an intensive reading program for the next 5 weeks to get > ready for the ITBS. We are a SINA as of now and we do need > to get going. Just wish he would have asked for this last > may so I could do some research and put together something >...See MoreOn 10/06/10, Deb ms/IA wrote: > Principal came to me today and siad he wants to implement > an intensive reading program for the next 5 weeks to get > ready for the ITBS. We are a SINA as of now and we do need > to get going. Just wish he would have asked for this last > may so I could do some research and put together something > (oh wait I and the math teacher did suggest this last > May!). Now he wants something ready to go next week. > > What things have worked for you in terms of getting reading > scores up? > > Read aloud every day. If you're not a good expressive reader, get hold of recordings of short stories read by professional readers. [link removed].

Reading scores and reading ability are influenced by kids being read to - not just reading themselves. Most kids don't know how to listen to someone reading to them but get hold of Ray Bradbury's short story collection - those are pretty compelling for your age group. Of course the kids should be reading themselves on a daily basis - anything, even comic books. Reading is reading.

But a pep talk about the reading passages helps too. Kids are baffled by them. Telling them - the reading passages are contrived (and they are of course) which is why they feel hard to read. They don't understand that.

A GREAT exercise is to have them read their own reading passages - a paragraph - and make up five questions about it. Let them exchange paragraphs, read each other's paragraphs and try to answer the questions. Choose a few or even more to use with the class as a whole.

Also tell kids how answers for the reading passages are written. There will always be one answer that's very close to right. One right answer, one answer very close to right put there to trip them up, one half-right answer and one not right answer. Why we don't tell kids that baffles me especially if we want them do well on the test.

Taking these tests is NOT just about honing their actual skills - it's teaching them test-taking skills.

I find having them write their own reading passages serves to decrease their fear of the test and to increase their understanding of what goes into making these tests up. It humanizes the test, in a way, for them and they attack the tests with more confidence and more assurance.

Oct 27, 2010

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Nicole S. SRA READING SUCCESS is a great intensive, research based program to use for a shorter amount of time to help get scores up. It's easy to implement (scripted) and great for grades 4-12. Their are four levels: Foundation, and Levels A, B, C. Do not be fooled that the foundation level is for third graders. The website states this, but it is incorrect....See More

Nov 16, 2010

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Something a little bit different?

by Chris Roland

Oct 8, 2010

Hi all

I usually post updates about these on the primary chatboards but I figure they might be useful here too. They are PowerPoint stories with a high text to image correspondence. Each slide is accompanied by a phrase or a sentence.

The Reg and Lellow stories are simpler and the Humphrey Bogin series slightly more complicated. ...See More

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arachgold2007 Yes, using F5 solves the problem. I'm not that familiar with Power Point. I tried pressing f5 again to get back to the stories screen, but it didn't work. How do I get back to the original screen?

On 10/28/10, chris Roland wrote: > On 10/28/10, arachgold2007 wrote: >> I like your cute stories. You may want to check the versions &...See More

Oct 28, 2010

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Chris Roland Okay, so let's imagine you are on the screen that has the titles of the stories on the Reg and Lellow site.

You select a story and then it gives you the option to open or save right?

If you choose 'save', then it saves the story to your computer. i would recommend this because then if the internet goes down in the middle of your c...See More

Oct 28, 2010

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Alpha Boxes

by Paula

Oct 11, 2010

New to the concept of Alpha Boxes as a graphic organizer when teaching new vocabulary for a specific unit. Are we to put more than one "B" word under b, and if we do, do you usually have them fill in the definition beside/below it. I would think that it would be too over stimulating, and some of the common letters "s" "t" would quickly become full....See More

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Lively letters

by dspecialk

Oct 20, 2010

I recently acquired a set of Lively Letters from Reading with TLC. Unfortunately, there is no instruction manual with them. Just was wondering if anyone knows where I can find (for free) information on how to best utilize these cards for my special ed kindergartners. Any information you can share would be greatly appreciated.

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