LEARNING THE ROPES OF READINGKeynote: November, 2015Title 1 Parent ConferenceWendy S. Farone, PhDPaTTAN Pittsburgh

PATTAN’S MISSION

The mission of the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) is to support the efforts and initiatives of the Bureau of Special Education, and to build the capacity of local educational

agencies to serve students who receive special education services.

PDE’S COMMITMENT TO LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT (LRE)

Our goal for each child is to ensure Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams begin with the general education setting with the use of Supplementary Aids and Services

before considering a more restrictive environment.

READING IS DISTRIBUTED ON THE “BELL CURVE”

50Percentile rank 2 9816 84

40th percentile is “benchmark”

Below 20th percentile is at risk for long-term

reading failure

Good readers (top 60%)

Distribution of reading skill

THE COMPLEXITIES OF LEARNING TO READ

• Reading is not natural or easy for many children

• Reading depends upon many abilities• Once we understand how a good reader reads, we can then understand reading failure and how to prevent it

SCIENCE VS MYTHOLOGY OR PHILOSOPHYSeveral thousand studies have reached consensus on how best to teach reading

Strong early-intervention programs minimize the number of children who will fall behind

“Johnny is just a late bloomer” is a myth!We can identify those who struggle in Kindergarten and intervene

SCARBOROUGH’S ROPE-HANDOUT

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESSThe ability to hear and manipulate sounds in a spoken word.

Required in order to attach a letter symbol in order to decode and spell

Most common problem for students with dyslexia

Let’s try one!

WORD RECOGNITION: DECODING/PHONICS/SPELLING

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SCARBOROUGH’S ROPE-HANDOUT

ORAL LANGUAGE/VOCABULARYRead aloud books for students Dialogic Reading –interacting with the textNo baby talk! On-the-fly language development

COMPREHENSIONThe goal of automatic reading is understanding what has been read

BUT one can NOT understand what they cannot access…

_______ are knobby underground stems that are known for their ______ and flavorful flesh. The ______ family includes ginger, ______ and _____l among a few other, lesser known _______. ______ are not a significant source of any ______ – most especially because they are rarely eaten in great enough _____ to ______ a serving. Ginger is a tropical Asian herb that is known for its spicy ______ roots. In ______ India, ginger was believed to ________ cleanse the body.

DECODING OF ALL WORDS IS CRITICAL!

IS IT A COMPREHENSION ISSUE OR A DECODING ISSUE?

Do ________ smell?List three __________ families?Are __________ a healthy food?What are seen as the benefits of _______?

Rhizomes are knobby underground stems that are known for their pungent and flavorful flesh. The rhizome family includes ginger, turmeric and galangal among a few other, lesser known rhizomes. Rhizomes are not a significant source of any nutrients – most especially because they are rarely eaten in great enough quantities to constitute a serving. Ginger is a tropical Asian herb that is known for its spicy aromatic roots. In ancient India, ginger was believed to spiritually cleanse the body.

CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS NOW?

Do ________ smell?List three __________ families?Are __________ a healthy food?What are seen as the benefits of _______?

THE ROPES OF READING Any strand within the “rope” can cause a student to struggle

Reading is complex; there is no one program or one activity that can address all issues

Some students need 2 exposures to learn, some need 20, but some need more and more

Wendy S. Farone, PhDEducational Consultantwfarone@pattan.net

PaTTANwww.pattan.net

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Tom Wolf, Governor

Enjoy the Conference!!