Stages of Development
Disabilities
Assessments
Fish in a Tree
Variables of Instruction
100

Third grade to fifth grade; students begin using more prosody when reading; writing begins to include more descriptive details

What is the Developing Literacy Stage?


100

Can negatively affect both receptive and expressive language; students may have difficulty attaching meaning to sound groups that form words, sentences, and stories

What is Language Processing Disorder?

100

What stages of literacy would use: Concepts about Print, Speech to Print match, knowledge of letter names, phonological awareness?

What is emergent literary stage?

100

How does Mr. Daniels examine the reading problem that Ally has?

He pays close attention to Ally's struggles. Notices that she is quick to avoid reading/writing tasks. Doesn't take him long to figure out that Ally tries to get in trouble to avoid completing reading tasks. He tells her that he won't be sending her out of the class. He realizes that she tries to avoid assignments because they are really tough for her

100

What is the variable of task?

Tasks are differentiated so that they address the skill, concept, or standard to be learned while also showing the student to learn on his/her level. teachers can adjust mode of the task (students answer orally or in writing) or levels of demands within the task 

200

First grade-second grade; the alphabetic principle becomes real; understanding that words are made of sounds; writing contains a lot of invented spelling

What is the Early Developing Literacy Stage?


200

Negatively affects how sound that travels through the ear is processed by the brain; students with this do not hear the difference between sounds

What is Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)?

200

What literacy stage would use the following assessments: fluency assessment, cloze test, miscue analysis

What is the developing literacy stage?

200

What does Mr. Daniels do to diagnose the reading problem that Ally has?

He challenges Ally to read/write in class and independently so he can watch how she responds. He observes closely her strength and comfort with art as well as her discomfort with letters and words. He asked her to stay after school so he can work with her one-on-one in a more comfortable setting. 

200

What is the variable of reader?

Teacher can make positive impacts of student's motivation as a reader, teach students monitoring and elaboration strategies, and provide materials that are interesting for the reader

300

high school-college and career; students use multiple sources with multiple perspectives; writing is embedded in more content tasks

What is the Complex Literacy Stage?

300

Negatively affects a child's ability to understand nonverbal cues; students often have limited coordination along with weaker social skills, but not speaking and writing skills

What is Non-verbal Learning Disabilities (NVLD)?

300

What literacy stage would use: self-report of strategy use, summarization rubric, think-aloud assessment?

What is the strategic literacy stage?

300

What is a method of treatment for Ally?

He makes adjustments to assignments that Ally is required to complete. He teaches Ally strategies for attacking words that are moving and dancing all over the page. he teaches her to focus on the beginning and the end of a word and use clues to figure out what could be in the middle to figure out the word

300

What is the variable of situational context?

teacher sets up a positive learning environment with students interactions encouraged and supported, teacher responds in a supportive manner

400

young-middle of first grade; writers use scribbles to communicate; phonological awareness is critical at this stage

What is the Emergent Literacy Stage?
400

Negatively affect a child's written communication, impacting both information and motor skills; kills with _____ also have a hard time with spelling and writing

What is Dysgraphia?


400

What stage would use the following: word identification, phonemic awareness, spelling assessments, story retelling? 

What is the early developing stage? 

400

What is the variable of technique?

teachers can use specific techniques that best meet individual student's learning styles and abilities. Teachers should use techniques that match strategies used by each student

500

fifth grade-eighth grade; students begin to develop their own point of view; in writing students are producing elaborate essays

What is the Strategic Literacy Stage?

500

Negatively affects the understanding of information that a person sees, or the ability to draw or copy; students often struggle with cutting or holding a pencil

What is Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor?
500

What is the variable of text?

the level of text that a child is asked to read can be changed to meet each student's needs. considerations should be made for the content of the text, density of the info within the text, format of the text, organization of text, style of text, complexity of text, level of vocab in text

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