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Consequences of Reading Failure
Dyslexia
Elements of Reading
Teaching Strategies
Famous Dyslexics
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This problem is considered a major health care problem in our country.
What is a reading failure?
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an unusual type of severe reading disorder, extremely difficult to recognize letters and words and to interpret information that is presented in print form
What is dyslexia?
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This is individual sounds in spoken words...
What is phonemic awareness
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This strategy technique helps improve reading comprehension by asking students what the Know, what they Want to find out and what was Learned.
What is the K-W-L technique?
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This person was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator,he was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Who was Winston Churchill?
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These grades in school are crucial in discovering reading difficulties among children in order for interaction to be successful.
What are 1-3rd grades?
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Dyslexia has a biological basis and is caused by a disruption of this part/activity in the brain.
What is neural circuits in the brain?
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This is the relationship between printed letters (graphemes) and the sounds (phonemes) in language and the study of helps build decoding skills.
What is phonics?
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This multisensory approach to reading, developed by a woman, uses visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile senses, but differs as it uses the WHOLE word rather than single sounds.
What is the Grace Fernald approach?
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a German-born theoretical physicist who discovered the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, he is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
Who is Albert Einstein?
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By this grade, if students are not successful readers, there is a 74% chance these students will still be unsuccessful readers in the 9th grade.
What is the 3rd grade?
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Dyslexic problems persist into these two age groups after childhood.
What is adolescence and adulthood?
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This is the ability to read connected text rapidly, effortlessly and automatically and needs to be developed in order to comprehend.
What is fluency?
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For helping build fluency skills, this method helps students practice reading by taking turns reading out loud to each other, alternating pages or paragraphs.
What is paired reading?
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This person was a great painter, designer, scientist, futurist and thinker. He lived during 1452 - 1519. He was best known for his painting of the 'Last Supper' and 'the Mona Lisa'.
Who is Leonardo De Vinci?
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A child that lacks phonemic awareness, oral language and verbal skills, is unfamiliar with letters and has no understanding for the purpose of print would be considered at risk for what type of learning disorder?
What is a reading disorder?
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Dyslexia has these three dimensions: perceptual, cognitive and one other.....
What is language?
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This is the central position in learning to read, effects reading achievement and strongly relates to reading comprehension and is the meaning of words...
What is vocabulary?
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Dialogue Journals, Materials Without Words and Written Conversations are all strategies to help this connection.
What is the Reading-Writing Connection?
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Singer, writer, poet, and composer, this was the Beatles' most committed rock artist. With his social conscience, cynical wit, and willingness to experiment, he was in constant conflict with conservative values.
Who was John Lennon?
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Children may also be at risk for reading failure because of this type of background that differs linguistically due to limited exposure to English.
What is cultural background?
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Today, the cognitive neurosciences research provides strong evidence that dyslexia is caused by a variant in brain structure, a difference in brain function and this type of factors....
What are genetic factors?
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This is gathering meaning from the printed page, intentional and thoughtful interaction between the reader and the text. Readers must bridge the gap between the information presented in the written text and the knowledge they possess.
What is comprehension?
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Highlighting multiple word meanings, providing concrete experiences, exploring sources of words, expanding words through classification are all activities designed to expand and build......
What is vocabulary?
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This person helped start a major computer company named _______Packard.
Who is William Hewett?