Transcript Take Flight Info

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Decoding Activity
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodm
inds/reading.html
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Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability.
Dyslexia refers to a cluster of symptoms, which
result in people having difficulties with specific
language skills, particularly reading.
Students with dyslexia may experience difficulties
in other language skills such as spelling, writing, and
speaking.
More simply, this means that in spite of good
schools, good home environment and normal
intelligence, the child still has great difficulty with
reading skills, the cause of which is unknown.
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Multisensory
Process-Oriented
Systematic
Sequential
Cumulative
Meaning-Based
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Designed for
children with dyslexia
small groups (4 – 6 students)
5 days a week/45 minutes per day
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Contains the 5 components of effective reading
instruction:
phonemic awareness
phonics skills
vocabulary
fluency
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reading comprehension
Designed to enable students to achieve and
maintain better:
word recognition
reading fluency
reading comprehension
aid in the transition from a therapy setting
to “real world” learning.
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Take Flight
A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia
Students will learn:
44 sounds
96 letter – sound correspondence rules
87 affixes
Spelling rules:
*basewords
*derivatives
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Dual lesson cycle design
First 35 lessons are New Learning days
Beginning at lesson 36 alternating lesson
*2 New Learning days
*2 Fluency / Comprehension days
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cycles
New Learning Day
1. Alphabet
2. Reading Decks
3. New Learning/Application
4. Instant words
5. Sentences
6. RAP Pages
7. Spelling Decks
8. Phonemic Awareness 1
9. Phonemic Awareness 2
10. Spelling Practice
11. Dictation Review
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Fluency / Connected Text Day
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8.
Reading Decks
Instant Words
Rate Practice
Spelling Deck
Spelling Practice
Dictation
Review
Comprehension Skill
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Program Totals
132 New Learning Lessons
98 Fluency / Connected Text Lessons
230 Total Hours of Direct Instruction
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Ways to help at home:
Complete homework assignments
Handwriting
RAP
Instant words
Rate
Check and initial Homework
folder
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Why use cursive handwriting
practice?
Lower Case Cursive Handwriting
begins at a consistent starting point for each
letter
reduces reversals of letters
provides unique letter shapes
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Fluency Instruction
Fluency is reading accurately at a
smooth and even pace.
RAP Repeated Accurate Practice
Instant Words
Timed readings for rate
Repeated readings for smoothness
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RAP Practice
Purpose:
• connect the printed letter to it’s name and sound
• develop accurate and effortless reading through
repeated practice
• increase reading speed while maintaining
accuracy
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Instant Word Practice
Instant words are a list of 300 words that
occur frequently in reading.
Purpose:
to provide repeated practice of the 300 words
presented in groups of ten
develop rapid, accurate word recognition
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Listen to Reading
Purpose:
connect pleasure with reading
exposure to quality literature
provide a good reading model
increase vocabulary
expand background knowledge
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Helpful Resources
• N.E. Tarrant County Dyslexia Council
www.allcanread.net
• Region X Dyslexia Department
www2.ednet10.net/dyslexia
• International Dyslexia Association
www.interdys.org
• Texas Scottish Rite Hospital
http://www.tsrhc.org/dyslexia.htm
Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, M.D. (2003)
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