ELSE5653 Literacy and Language Development for Exceptional

ELSE 5653 Literacy and Language Development for Exceptional Learners

Reading Development Teaching Strategy

Overview Candidates will demonstrate understanding of the skills presented regarding teaching reading fluency, reading comprehension, or vocabulary development. To complete the assignment, candidates must select a strategy, implement the strategy with a target student, and reflect on the experiences. Candidates must also take a picture of the materials used and include in the template provided.

Directions 1. Identify a student with an exceptionality or a student who struggles with readingdevelopment skills.

2. Select an effective strategy to meet the needs of the exceptional or struggling student.

Design an interactive, hands-on strategy that targets the area of need for the student selected. The activity must focus on reading fluency, comprehension, or vocabulary development.

3. Use the template provided to design a plan to implement the strategy.

4. Create the materials that will be used to teach developmental reading skills to theexceptional or struggling student.

5. Implement the strategy with the target student.

6. Write a two page reflection on the creation and implementation of the strategy. Be sure todiscuss the topics outlined in the template and to include the impact on student learning.

7. Photograph materials that were used after implementing the strategy and include in thetemplate. 8. Upload the assignment using the template provided. Resources

? Reading Rockets (n.d.). Embedded supports to differentiate instruction for struggling students. Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/embedded-supports-differentiate-instruction-struggling-students

? Reading Rockets (n.d.). Fluency: Introduction. Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101- course/modules/fluency-introduction

? Consortium on Reading Excellence (n. d.) Lesson model: Reading words for automaticity. Retrieved from https://www.corelearn.com/resource-posts/video-automaticity/

? Strategies (n.d.). Echo reading. Retrieved from https://strategiesforspecialinterventions.weebly.com/echo-reading.html

? Orton-Gillingham Weekly (2016, August). Automaticity. Retrieved from https://brainspring.c

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/embedded-supports-differentiate-instruction-struggling-students

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101-course/modules/fluency-introduction

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101-course/modules/fluency-introduction

https://www.corelearn.com/resource-posts/video-automaticity/

https://strategiesforspecialinterventions.weebly.com/echo-reading.html

https://brainspring.com/ortongillinghamweekly/what-is-automaticity/

 

TARGET STUDENT INFORMATION

Summarize the following information

1. The student’s age, grade level, and academic development in the area of the targeted skill.

2. Identify the difficulties the student experiences. Address one or more of the following areas:

3. Academic difficulties, Behavior concerns. Attitude of student.

4. Address any outstanding circumstances the student is facing.

5. Why did you choose this strategy for your student?

TARGET SKILL

This should be a description of the skill itself, and should directly relate to the content area and big idea.

TARGET GRADE LEVEL

This should directly relate to the academic development of the exceptional (struggling) student.

ARKANSAS TEACHING STANDARD

State the ATS (one or two is sufficient) that aligns with the strategy that you are creating

PURPOSE

Why did you choose this strategy? What is the objective of the activity? How does this strategy align with the needs of your struggling student?

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

Describe what materials are needed to implement the lesson. These are the materials you will photograph and imbed at the end of this template after completion of your lesson. How will you integrate technology?

PROCEDURES

Provide step by step instructions you will use to teach the strategy to the student.

ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING

What measurable criteria is necessary to show mastery of the skill? Ex: The student will be able to match 10 out of 15 cards correctly to show mastery.

REFLECTION

This will need to be completed after the implementation of your teaching strategy. Address the information in the following outline. Your paper should be at least two pages in length.

1. What impact did your activity have on student learning?

a. Did your student show mastery?

b. What additional areas of content needs to be addressed?

2. While developing your tool, what difficulties or positive experiences did you encounter?

3. While implementing your tool (strategy), what difficulties or positive experiences did you encounter?

4. When you re-teach the lesson, what will you do differently?

5. What has this assignment taught you about the process of teaching this content to exceptional students?

6. What did you learn from this assignment that you can apply to teaching future exceptional students?

References

Photographs

After completion of your lesson using the instructional tool (strategy) with the identified exceptional (struggling) student, take pictures of the strategy used. Imbed the picture in this section.