1. Keys To Successful Reading

2. What are the keys to successful reading?
Communication
Assessment
Reading Strategies
Engagement

3. COMMUNICATION Language provides the building blocks for communication
connects us with those around us
the foundation for expression
unlocks doors for reading and writing

4. COMMUNICATION Language can be conveyed through a variety of domains
Speech Cued Speech
Visual/Conceptual Pictures
Written Formats Gestures

5. Language is ever changing and complex in nature!
Instilling a love of language and communication in children is the first step to unlocking the world of literacy.
Discovering which mode communication works best for the student is the first key element required to academic success.

6. Why is assessment so important?
helps to evaluate a student’s strengths and needs.

7. The goals of assessment are:
To plan instruction
Support students
Promote self-evaluation

8. Assessment becomes a part of the learning process for teachers and students.

9. Reading Strategies Incorporate a Constructivist Model
Make the learner the center of instruction
Learner creates knowledge by linking new information with past e knowledge
Teacher negotiates with students how to study the curriculum
Includes students in day-to-day planning
Students talk about their reading and writing in order to learn and connect ideas
Talk is often self evaluative

10. Reading Strategies E-mail each other Shared reading Writing activities
Cut out sight words
Illustrate stories
Color code characters
Make a PowerPoint
Make comic strips

11. Guided Reading
Copy one-page articles on overhead transparencies and as a class read/sign the story together.
Underline idiomatic phrases that are not signed literally.
Also, mark and discuss unfamiliar words and points that require background knowledge.

12. ENGAGEMENT We must work to build the Learning Pyramid
Average Retention Rate After 24 Hours
Lecture _____5%
Reading _________10%
Audio-Visual_________ 20%
Demonstration __________30%
Discussion Group____________50%
Practice by Doing_______________75%
Teacher Others/Immediate Use of Learning___ 90%
(Sousa, D., (1999). How the Brain Learns. Restin, VA: NAASP.