1. Little Stories, Little Words, Many Meanings
A Reading Resource to Teach
Multiple Meanings
Created by: Roxanne Helene Clanin
CAL-ED Conference March 7, 2015
Presented by: Carol Hajdu, Jennifer Burnett, and Sam Mullins

2. https://sites.google.com/site/roxanneclaninmemorial/csun
Roxanne Helene Clanin
The Little Stories, Little Words, Many Meanings website will be continued and maintained by Roxanne’s DHH teaching colleague Carol Hajdu, with assistance from Jennifer Burnett and Sam Mullins

3. How and why this project began:
Roxanne Clanin was an LAUSD D/HH teacher for over 25 years. She taught D/HH students at Multnomah Elementary School and D/HH students with special needs at Marlton School for the Deaf
Inspired by:
EQTDHH* workshops, , which focused on developing D/HH teacher skills in implementing the Common Core State Standards in English-Language Arts (CCSS-ELA)
Fairview Training, November 2013

4. The Illustrator Marie Pedrigal
Roxanne wrote 43 stories that targeted words with multiple meanings
Each of these stories were illustrated by a 21 year old deaf student, Marie Pedrigal, from Miller Career and Transition Center

5. The Illustrator Marie Pedrigal

6. The illustrations

7. What are Dolch sight words?
“Pesky Sight Words” as Roxanne would say
Sight words: commonly used words
Young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight
Automatically recognized in print without decoding
50% of all reading texts are made up of the same 100 words! Therefore called Sight Words!

8. DHH Students and Sight Words
Multiple meaning sight words are a challenge for emergent readers
Sight words may not be depicted in ASL or in pictures
Miscues prevent the reader from fully understanding the text

9. Multiple Meaning Words

10. Common Core State Standards
CCSS address knowledge of sight words, reading comprehension skills, and understanding of multiple meanings of words

11. Common core connection
Language Anchor Standard
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: 4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate

12. Fairview Learning LLC
Students learn multiple meanings and multiple signs of sight words
To truly comprehend print, D/HH students must sign the Dolch words using ASL concepts
Adapted Dolch Sight Words included in the 5 Program Components
Fairview Learning: a reading program adapted specifically for DHH students who use ASL

13. “Fairview’s unique program provides individuals the literacy tools to construct mental, linguistic frameworks. These frameworks, specific to each user, allow access and increasing fluency in English and ASL, and ease the movement between the two languages.”

15. Little Stories were created
Adapted Dolch Words
Fairview focuses on teaching D/HH students basic sight words which will help them gain understanding when interacting with text using Adapted Dolch Sight words:
Pre-Primer
Primer
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd grade
Little Stories were created
using this word list

16. can

17. ^can 3

20. Roxanne’s Vision Roxanne wanted to tackle those “pesky sight words”
43 Little Stories with multiple meaning sight words
Worksheets accompanying each story
Sentences in isolation identifying the multiple meaning
ASL Videos accompanying each of the stories

22. Little Stories
43 stories to support D/HH students’ internalization of multiple meaning sight words in context
Standards-based tool to integrate into curriculum
Adaptable to fit different needs of different D/HH classrooms
5 Dolch Words per story including multiple meanings for each targeted sight word
Stories are in levels instead of grades based on Dolch words
Note* stories are based on Dolch word level, NOT on the actual reading level of the passage
use the correlation between dhh and hearing students because if a hearing student read the sight word correctly but we do not know if they understand the context itself. With this- we can see the thought process of DHH student with those specific sight words and see if they can figure out the right context

23. Worksheets Literal and inferential questions
Utilizes ASL (expressive and receptive) and English (reading and writing)
Citing text-based evidence
Multi-media resources to access information
Flexible tool to adapt with any teaching style, curriculum or current unit  

24. Worksheets: Back to ccss
CCSS emphasizes that all students need to be 21st Century ready by utilizing technology and developing skills in the 4 C’s-
Communication
Collaboration
Critical Thinking
Creativity
“Students employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking and listening and language use. They tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently and they integrate what they learn through technology with what they learn offline.” (

25. Sentences Sentences in Isolation : available for each of the stories
Excellent tool for literacy centers

26. Little stories “The Ball”

27. Little Stories “The Ball” Worksheets

28. Little Stories “The Ball” Sentences

29. Little Stories “The Cake”

30. Little Stories “The Cake” Worksheets modified

31. Little Stories “The Cake” Worksheets modified

32. Little Stories in action “The Cake” Sentences Literacy Center

33. Little Stories in action “The Cake”

34. Little Stories in action Your Turn: “THE SNAKE”

35. Authentic Text http://www.readinga-z.com/
Little Stories gives emergent readers the opportunity to apply their skills of deciphering multiple meaning words in other contexts
Reading A-Z is an online reading resource with a collection of over 2,500 downloadable books.

36. Authentic Text

37. To-Dos
Editing and refining the Little Stories
ASL videos

38. The blog