Turning Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones for Those With Reading Issues
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Fellow Educators,
I once attended a workshop for a publishing company claiming to have a reading curriculum for at-risk readers. They boasted "multi-sensory learning " techniques.
Their idea of multi-sensory learning was for the child to pull down his or her arm like a railroad engineer pulling a whistle every time a new sound or word was learned and said out loud.
I was not sure whether to laugh or cry. The district actually paid good money for this.
If I may be candid, some of the best training I ever received during 20+ years of teaching was in a handful of workshops that actually gave specific ideas for specific situations rather than an endless stream of vague theories.
Such is the case for arranging a DASA workshop for your school or yourself. We are professionals, and we know what it is like to actually BE in a classroom... let's learn more, together.
Robin Robinson, M. Ed, MRT
Director, DASA.
Whether in the public classroom, a charter school, a college or home school environment, you may be working with an at-risk reader. Perhaps you have questions, ideas, and concerns to be shared.
We provide workshops and Saturday Seminars for :
Characteristics of Dyslexia
Classroom Accommodations
Multi-Sensory Instruction
Reading Fluency
Spelling Protocols
Vocabulary
Multi-sensory Grammar
Testing Success w/ Dyslexics
Advanced Phonics for Adolescents
Each workshop contains practical tips and activities such as:
...and more.
If your school is interested in a workshop or Saturday seminar, please contact us! We can tailor the workshop to your specific questions and needs. Our workshops are hands-on learning at its best.
IMPOSSIBLE? What group in your school could have a 100% pass rate on senior testing for ELA? Certainly not the dyslexic group, right? Yet one school in San Antonio had a 100% pass rate on ELA for their dyslexic students who were seniors... three years in a row! (That school was our founder's school. Now we are helping other schools and students with STAAR. We're experienced and we're here to help.)
HOW CAN THIS SUCCESS HAPPEN?
Individualized, multi-sensory instruction given by a teacher who understands how to assess and meet the needs of each dyslexic / at-risk learner... learning to to throw away the drill-and kill method for engaging activities which actually make a difference.
The same school mentioned above had a 504 committee that was well trained and provided for low-stress, small group testing of at-risk readers during testing. They knew how to apply the proper accommodations for success individually: notched colored transparency overlays for decoding... providing extended time...simple things that made a HUGE difference.
What about YOUR school, and your classroom? STAAR/EOC/SAT/PSAT don't have to be stumbling blocks for your dyslexic readers!
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