Teaching Reading to students with disabilities

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Teaching Reading to students with disabilities

• Amanda Fox

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Shared Reading

• A reading strategy used with students
• Stories are read aloud while students look at the
  text being read and follow along
• Used to draw attention to words, show direction
  of print, and highlight important concepts about
  letters, words, and sentences

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Useful for

• Encouraging prediction in reading
• Helping new readers learn about the relationship
  between print and speech

• Informally introducing print conventions
• Providing an enjoyable learning experience
• Teaching sight vocabulary

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Kinds of Shared Reading

• Choral Reading students divide into groups to
  read poem aloud
• Readers Theatre reading aloud plays or scripts
• Listening centers listening to books on tape
  while following along with the book

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Adaptations and Modifications

• Braille materials can be used for methods of
  Shared Reading with students who are blind
• Listening centers can be used with students who
  are hard of hearing but they are not beneficial
  for the deaf
• Choral reading and Readers Theatre provide
  interactive activities for students who have
  learning and behavior problems

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What size books should be used?

• Simple stories can be printed on the chalkboard
• Books with large print should be adequate for
  small groups
• Stories are normally in the form of Big Books or
  wall charts for large groups

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Guidelines

• Read fluently and expressively
• Be dramatic
• Involve the students
• Point to and describe the pictures
• Select books you and the children find enjoyable
  or interesting
• Select relatively short stories

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What NOT to do

• Dont point to each word in the text as you read
  or as the students read
• Dont use textbooks
• Dont select novels
• Dont be boring!

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Steps to Teaching

• Discuss story and pictures with students before
  reading to build anticipation
• To introduce the story, talk about the title,
  cover illustration, and type of story
• Read the story once to the students
• Reread the story, encouraging students to join
  in, reading certain words or phrases as they are
  able

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Teaching Extensions

• You can extend the reading activities to meet the
  needs of certain students
• Students from other cultures
• Students who are deaf
• Students with language deficits

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Teaching Extensions

• Highlight (with a colored marking pen) the
  repetitive words, the repetitive phrases, or
  sight words that the students are learning
• Have the students read the highlighted
  words/phrases after the 2nd or 3rd reading, while
  the teacher reads the other words

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Shared Reading Tips for Students who are Deaf

• Make sure the children can see your face, signs,
  and print at the same time
• Dont be limited by the books expand on the
  books ideas

• Talk about the story with students as you read
• Connect ideas from the story with personal
  experiences

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Shared Reading Tips for Students who are Deaf

• Be dramatic and slightly exaggerate facial
  expression to show different characters
• If you dont know some signs, fingerspell and
  explain what is happening

• Keep the students attention with a gentle tap or
  nudge
• Act out the story once you have read it
• Discuss new vocabulary words and explain their
  meaning

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Have fun sharing reading with students!The End