Creating a Community of Readers
Tips and Techniques to Improve Student Learning
Supporting Children with Speech and Language Difficulties - Michele Witte, Adelaide
As a speech therapist, I enjoy working on phonic skills, listening skills and vocabulary skills which are components of our reading program. Children with speech and language difficulties generally need extra work and a variety of task to learnt to rhyme, segment sentences, words, syllables, blends, single sounds, and make associations and categorize.
We sing, read poems, invent poems, chant, rehearse, and learn to identify single sounds through tactile and kinesthetic cues. Students match synonyms, antonyms, or play synonyms "Go Fish." We make posters generating synonyms for a single word (for example: "big" - large, huge giants). We act out vocabulary and draw pictures to represent reading passages.
This idea was submitted by Michele Witte, Speech Therapist at Adelaide. For more information, call Michele at (253)954-2307.
If you have a tip or technique that you would like to share with other teachers related to successful literacy instruction in the classroom, simply write out your idea and send it to Mark Jewell at ESC, or e-mail Mark-Jewell@fwsd.wednet.edu.
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