Best Instructional Practices for Adolescent Learners
What is Structured Literacy? Why is it important for Dyslexic learners?
Website Resources:
An Overview of Structued Literacy:
What is Strucutred Literacy?
Structured Literacy: Effective Instruction for Students with Dyslexia and Related Reading Difficulties
Structured Literacy is an umbrella approach to reading built around scope and sequence. “Adhering to the instructional sequence encourages skill mastery, minimizes confusion and incorrect attempts and gradually builds complexity of students knowledge and skills” (Lorimor-Easley, p.3, 2019). Structured Literacy utilizes evidence based programs and practices that is “explicit, systematic teaching that focuses on phonological awareness” (Lorimor-Easley, p.1, 2019). Structured Literacy approaches help all students, especially those with learning disabilities or those with Dyslexia learn to read and write. Structured Literacy is important for Dyslexic learners because it explicitly focuses on the decoding skills Dyslexic readers need to be successful. According to the International Dyslexia Association “Structured literacy explicitly teachers systematic word-identification/decoding strategies. These benefit most students and are vital for those with Dyslexia” (Cowen, 2016). All elements of a structured literacy lesson and program work together to build fluent readers to help support reading comprehension .
Advanced phonemic awareness:
Phonemic Awareness in Older Learners
Phonemic Awareness Information and Activities
Phoneme Isolation
Phoneme Isolation Lesson Plan
Easy Phoneme Isolation Activities
Phoneme Isolation - Bag-O-Sounds
Phoneme Isolation - Final Sound
Blending and Segmentation Phonemes
Phonemic Awareness Segmenting Mats -
Let’s Learn Segmenting Video -
Beginning Phonemic Awareness Activities
What’s my Word
Counting Sort
Phoneme Challenge
The Phoneme Game
Manipulating Phonemes
Four Useful Strategies to Implement Phoneme Manipulation
What’s Left
Sound Change
Phoneme Swap
Make It-Find It - Keep It
Fluency
Teaching Oral Reading Fluency
Teaching Expressive Fluency
Fluency Tricks for Big Kids
Syllable Sprint
Affix Zip
Chunk King
Copy Cat!
Morphology/ Word Study:
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Information and Activities
Morphology
How to Teach Prefixes
15 Engaging Activities that teach Prefixes and Suffixes
Affix Action
Root-A-Word
Comprehension
Comprehension Information and Activities
Background Knowledge and Warm up
Read and Ask
Simple Summary
Question Quest
Retell Ring