Where to Begin?
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Learning Disability Interventions and Accommodations
According to international literacy expert and former president of the International Reading Association (IRA) Carmelita Williams (2002), we begin with realizing how special each child is and "let joy keep pace with growing." Williams speaks of the commitment teachers and parents need to make before all of the specifics are worked out:
Teachers will be committed to...
- Students and their learning
- Knowing the content of what is taught and how to teach it
- Taking responsibility for managing and monitoring each student's learning
- Thinking systematically about teaching practices and learning from these experiences
- Serving as members of learning communities
In reading, parents will be committed to...
- Reading to their children often
- Expanding their children's experiences
- Asking their children to retell stories
- Letting their children tell them all about their reading
- Letting their children see them enjoy reading
- Yielding to their children's interest in reading
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties: Research and Resource Guide for Working with All Struggling Readers, by C.A. Spafford & G.S. Grosser, 2005 edition, p. 119.
© 2005, Allyn & Bacon, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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