Struggling Readers and Writers

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Struggling Readers and Writers
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If you cant read, you cant hit
- Reggie Jackson

• Must be able to read different pitches
• Strategies
• Relates to struggling readers and writers
• Lack strategy

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How Can Teachers Respond To Struggling Readers
and Writers

• Answer?
• Scaffolding Instruction
• Allows teachers to support students efforts to
  make sense of texts while showing them how to use
  strategies that will overtime, lead to
  independent learning
• Results
• Students will become more confident in using
  strategies that support learning

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What Is Scaffolding?

• A teaching style that is designed to communicate
  the purpose of the lesson and especially its
  relation to past and future lessons
• Remind students of past experiences

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What Happens To Students Who Struggle With
Decoding Words?

• Slows down ability to read smoothly effectively
• May be deterred from understanding the text
• Frustrated

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Strategic Reading

• Develop hypotheses
• Develop images
• Share analogies
• Monitor comprehension
• Regulate comprehension

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Strategic Writing

• Discovery
• Drafting
• Revising

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Discovery Stage

• Brainstorming
• Clustering

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Activity 1Brainstorming

• Write down as many vacation spots that you would
  like to visit or revisit
• Out of all your ideas, choose your favorite
  vacation spot

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Activity 2Clustering
Beaches
Waves
Oceans
Hawaii
Food
Volcanoes
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Drafting Stage

• Importance of in class time
• Teachers can take active role by observing
  students
• Teachers should not use this time to grade papers
  or do other unrelated tasks
• Float

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Revising Stage

• Rewriting is the catalyst for clarifying and
  extending concepts
• Not just for making a neat transfer from pencil
  to ink
• Teacher feedback
• Student feedback

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Conclusion

• Use strategies that will benefit your students
• List some examples of reading strategies
• List some examples of writing strategies
• If you cant read, you cant hit.
• - Reggie Jackson