J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 1 Workshop for Literacy A Contextual Approach for Successful...

J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy

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Workshop for Literacy

A Contextual Approach for Successful Learning

Jennifer Drysdale

PT Learning Support Service Fife

[email protected]

You can read more about the Workshop for Literacy in

The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia edited by Gavin Reid

OR

The current edition of English Four to Eleven

Number 39 Summer 2010

Published by The English Association and the United Kingdom Literacy Association


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WORKSHOP FOR LITERACY

Early Identificatio

n of core skills

development

Contextual

Assessment

Contexts created

around ‘real ‘ books

Successful learning experienc

es


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WORKSHOP PROJECT

2009 –2010 6 Clusters

34 P1 classes 10 P2 classes 3 Nurseries

2008 –2009 1 Cluster

6 Schools 10 P1 classes

2010 -2011 46 new schools across FifeSome schools in every Cluster

34 P2 classes 10 P3 classes

Training and support visits

Skills tracking framework


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HOW THE WORKSHOP SUPPORTS DYSLEXIA

PREDICTORS OF SUCCESSEarly indicators

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTCore development to facilitate literacy

LEARNING PROCESS Learning steps are the same for all


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ORAL VOCABULARY

Children’s books contain 50% wider range of vocabulary

than television programmes or conversation

Cunningham and Stanovich

…ENABLES Literacy


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triangle

strawberries

phonological

plodoustrophy

elephant

education

Visual to Phonological

correspondence

NAMING SPEED…ENABLES Literacy


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PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Children who can’t segment phonemes, will experience difficulty in learning to read and

write.

words

syllablesphonemes

…ENABLES Literacy

rhyme


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CREATE A ‘READING BRAIN’

Visual processi

ng

Phonological processing

Phonic coding

Orthographic

coding

SEMANTICS: vocabulary and meaning verbal STM

ORTHOGRAPHY PHONOLOGY


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SUCCESS DEPENDS ON….

….opportunity determines success

Who gets most

opportunity to read?

quality practice


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VITAL LEARNING PROCESS

Phonological awareness and phonic knowledge

Accurate word reading results in stored knowledge of every sound / letter in a wordSight vocabulary

Skilled, fluent reading

In the EARLY YEARS


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THE READING RICH WILL GET RICHER……

Don’t let the poor

get poorer


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He opened two presents.


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HELPING THE LEARNER WITH SPECIFIC

DIFFICULTY

Support

learning in its natural

context


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Two sustainable sounds Contrasting lip shapes

Match sounds letters letters sounds

SHOW how letters make words

l wl

PHONOLOGY to ORTHOGRAPHY

amb


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PRACTISE THE RIGHT THINGS

Discriminate between 2 sustainable sounds

Experience the reading process - don’t perfect guess work

Match letters to sounds

Use to discriminate between words in context


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DEVELOP PHONICSEFFECTIVE PHONICS

Using sounds and letters to make words


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SKILLS: GETTING a BALANCE

Right Hemisphereletters-

form and direction

Left Hemispher

e

language

predictionBeware of early over-reliance on one mode


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INDIVIDUAL READING - look out for ………

Someone’s putting in

extra words - and he’s

reading far too quickly !

This reader looks at the ceiling rather than the text

…too much prediction


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…too much sounding out !

Someone’s sounding out

all the letters – and she’s far too

slow !

INDIVIDUAL READING - look out for ………

This reader attends to every single letter in most words.


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INDIVIDUAL READING ….

Someone’s using skills together - and it’s just

right !

This reader will recognise some words, predict some words and use some phonic cues

…just right


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He opened two presents.

Everyone c…… to the party.


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It went outside.The children b……………. wi’ the

bubbles.


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DISCOVERING HOW LITERACY WORKS

One day Humpty came to my house.

He had macroanay and chips and broclay and it waz deelishz

ENG 0-12a: I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together ….


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Clicker Grids free downloads

Clicker sequencing / broken sentences

Cloze Pro

Clicker talking books

Crazy TalkKidspiration

CoWriter

Crick Software

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Reallusion Inc

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