Reading
"No student is too anything to be able to read and write."
"No student is too anything to be able to read and write."
Dr. David Yoder
Kenzie, Age 10
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“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher, can change the world.“
Malala Yousafzi
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Games & Activities
Curriculum
Curriculum
Literacy improves lives--and with the right instruction and supports, all students can learn to read and write. That's the core belief behind this teacher-friendly handbook, your practical guide to providing comprehensive, high-quality literacy instruction to students with significant disabilities. Drawing on decades of classroom experience, the authors present their own innovative model for teaching students with a wide range of significant disabilities to read and write print in grades preK-12 and beyond. Foundational teaching principles blend with concrete strategies, step-by-step guidance, and specific activities, making this book a complete blueprint for helping students acquire critical literacy skills they'll use inside and outside the classroom.An essential resource for educators, speech-language pathologist, and parents--and an ideal text for courses that cover literacy and significant disabilities--this book will help you ensure that all students have the reading and writing skills they need to unlock new opportunities and reach their potential.
The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia. It is most properly understood and practiced as an approach, not a method, program, or system. In the hands of a well-trained and experienced instructor, it is a powerful tool of exceptional breadth, depth, and flexibility.
Many children and adults experience the symptoms of weak phonemic awareness.This causes weakness in:
- Recognizing sameness/difference of phonemes
- Discriminating the identity, number, and order
of sounds within words - Blending sounds
- Word attack
- Spelling
- Syllabication
- Differentiate student reading with more than 2,000 books at 29 levels of reading difficulty.
- Hone reading skills with lesson plans, worksheets, discussion cards, and comprehension quizzes that accompany every leveled book.
- Teach important 21st century skills and address critical ELA curriculum standards with thousands of downloadable, projectable, and printable teaching materials.
- Utilize hundreds of world language / translated books ideal for bilingual, ELL, and dual-language programs.
Growing readers are making strides in their learning and development with increases in both reading fluency andcomprehension. Our collection includes books with simple language, early chapter books with engaging characters,picture books with light-hearted stories, and nonfiction texts that provide informational graphics to support understanding.The collection also includes many Read to Me books to support readers in developing listening comprehension.
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities,.
Individuals of all ages may experience the symptoms of a weakness in concept imagery.This causes weakness in:
- Reading comprehension
- Listening comprehension
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Following directions
- Memory
- Oral language expression
- Written language expression
- Grasping humor
- Interpreting social situations
- Understanding cause and effect
It’s step-by-step, building from sounds to single words and then sentences, with children making daily leaps toward conquering reading and spelling.Confidence in reading and spelling soars.Children love it: frustration-free learning with engaging games and a cool storyline!3 years of content will take your child from sounding out their first word to the limitless world of independent reading.
In Readtopia you won’t find elementary-looking line drawings and “See Spot Run” text. Readtopia was designed to bring first-hand experiential learning into the classroom, so students can bridge the gap between learning through reading, and learning through experiencing. We take students down 1,000 feet in a submarine as we learn about oceanography. We hear from Sacagawea to understand the journey Lewis and Clark faced heading west. We bring students into a volcano in Iceland as a way to introduce them to the book Journey to the Center of the Earth. All of this is supported by authentic literature, phonics/early reading instruction, and informational text that builds foundational reading skills. Readtopia delivers the curriculum through thematic units that will help you transform classrooms into laboratories of experiential learning—engaging teachers and students alike.