1. Workshop for Literacy A Contextual Approach for Successful Learning
Jennifer Drysdale
PT Learning Support Service Fife
Workshop for Literacy
A Contextual Approach for Successful Learning
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
Introduction
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2. WORKSHOP FOR LITERACY Contexts created around ‘real ‘ books
Early Identification of core skills development
Contextual Assessment
Successful learning experiences
Contexts created around ‘real ‘ books
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3. WORKSHOP PROJECT 2008 –2009 1 Cluster 2009 –2010 6 Clusters
Training and support visits
Skills tracking
framework
2008 – Cluster
6 Schools P1 classes
2009 – Clusters
34 P1 classes P2 classes 3 Nurseries
new schools across Fife
Some schools in every Cluster
34 P2 classes P3 classes
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4. HOW THE WORKSHOP SUPPORTS DYSLEXIA
PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS
Early indicators
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
Core development to facilitate literacy
LEARNING PROCESS
Learning steps are the same for all
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ORAL VOCABULARY
…ENABLES Literacy
Identify early and respond / focus on quality children’s books
Children’s books contain 50% wider range of vocabulary than television programmes or conversation
Cunningham and Stanovich
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6. Visual to Phonological
NAMING SPEED
…ENABLES Literacy
education
elephant
Visual to Phonological
correspondence
triangle
strawberries
phonological
plodoustrophy
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7. PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
…ENABLES Literacy
words
rhyme
syllables
phonemes
Children who can’t segment phonemes, will experience difficulty in learning to read and write.
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8. CREATE A ‘READING BRAIN’ SEMANTICS: vocabulary and meaning
ORTHOGRAPHY
PHONOLOGY
Phonological
processing
Visual processing
Orthographic
coding
Phonic
coding
Early predictors reflect strengths /weaknesses in these 3 cognitive domains
Same learning process for all - so approach development in the same way for all
SEMANTICS: vocabulary and meaning
verbal STM
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9. Who gets most opportunity to read? ….opportunity determines success
SUCCESS DEPENDS ON….
quality practice
Who gets most opportunity to read?
….opportunity determines success
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10. VITAL LEARNING PROCESS
In the EARLY YEARS
Phonological awareness and phonic knowledge
Accurate word reading results in stored knowledge of every sound / letter in a word
Children with a ‘deficit’ in any one area will not be able to access the ‘whole practice’. So Rich will get richer syndrome
How does the Workshop help?
Sight vocabulary
Skilled, fluent reading
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11. THE READING RICH WILL GET RICHER……
Don’t let the poor get poorer
Make sure every child ha acce
ss to the same learning process
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He opened two presents.
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13. HELPING THE LEARNER WITH SPECIFIC DIFFICULTY
Support learning in its natural context
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PHONOLOGY to ORTHOGRAPHY
Two sustainable sounds Contrasting lip shapes l w
Match sounds  letters
letters  sounds l a m b
SHOW how letters make words
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One to one matching phonic cues and context overlearning sight vocabulary
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17. PRACTISE THE RIGHT THINGS
Discriminate between 2 sustainable sounds
Match letters to sounds
Use to discriminate between words in context
Experience the reading process - don’t perfect guess work
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18. Using sounds and letters to make words
DEVELOP PHONICS
EFFECTIVE PHONICS
Using sounds and letters to make words
White boards and markers up the school
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19. SKILLS: GETTING a BALANCE
Right Hemisphere
letters-
form and
direction
Left Hemisphere
language
prediction
Beware of early over-reliance on one mode
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20. INDIVIDUAL READING - look out for ………
…too much prediction
Someone’s putting in extra words - and he’s reading far too quickly !
This reader looks at the ceiling rather than the text
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23. INDIVIDUAL READING - look out for ………
…too much sounding out !
Someone’s sounding out all the letters – and she’s far too slow !
This reader attends to every single letter in most words.
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26. Someone’s using skills together - and it’s just right !
INDIVIDUAL READING ….
…just right
Someone’s using skills together - and it’s just right !
This reader will recognise some words, predict some words and use some phonic cues
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27. Everyone c…… to the party.
He opened two presents.
Everyone c…… to the party.
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28. The children b……………. wi’ the bubbles.
It went outside.
The children b……………. wi’ the bubbles.
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29. DISCOVERING HOW LITERACY WORKS
ENG 0-12a: I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together ….
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 and I can use what I learn to help me as i read or write
Who needs phonic worksheets?
Confident to express ideas / successful in writing them
Semantics / phonology / orthography all together
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USEFUL SOFTWARE
Clicker Grids  free downloads
Clicker  talking books
Clicker  sequencing / broken sentences
Cloze Pro
Crick Software
CoWriter
Don Johnston Incorporated
Kidspiration
Inspiration Software Inc
Crazy Talk
Reallusion Inc
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