Reading & Dyslexia
Approximately 80 percent of students with learning disabilities have been described as reading disabled. Resources within this section provide information and advice on what parents and educators can do to help students with LD gain reading skills.
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Celebrating Strengths and Talents of Dyslexic Children: An Educational Model
Though dyslexic children experience difficulties in processing the written language, they are often bright, creative, and talented individuals. Strengths may include mechanical aptitude, artistic ability, musical gifts, and athletic prowess. The dyslexic student may also evidence advanced social skills as well as talents in computer/technology, science, and math.
Why Reading Is Not a Natural Process
Whole Language Lives On: The Illusion of Balanced Reading Instruction
Children with LD as Emergent Readers: Bridging the Gap to Conventional Reading
For children at risk for reading failure, teachers can facilitate the exploration of emergent literacy elements, including phonological awareness, print awareness, narrative development, and early writing skills. This article provides specific activities and instructional techniques to help children develop emergent literacy elements.
General Information About Dyslexia
Phonics and Word Recognition Instruction in Early Reading Programs: Guidelines for Accessibility
Many teachers will be using supplemental phonics and word-recognition materials to enhance reading instruction for their students. In this article, the authors provide guidelines for determining the accessibility of these phonics and word recognition programs.
Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines
Using Children's Literature to Teach Social Skills
Straight Talk About Reading: How Parents Can Make a Difference During the Early Years
Why Children Succeed or Fail at Reading
About 10 million children have difficulties learning to read. Children with reading difficulties stop and start frequently, mispronouncing some words and skipping others entirely. In the later grades, when children switch from learning to read to reading to learn, reading-impaired children are kept from exploring science, history, literature, mathematics and the wealth of information that is presented in print.
Biological Basis for Reading Disability Discovered
Informed Instruction for Reading Success: Foundations for Teacher Preparation
Teachers: The Key to Helping America Read
A Scientific Approach to Reading Instruction
The good news is that we have had a scientific breakthrough in our knowledge about the development of literacy. We know a great deal about how to address reading problems even before they begin...The tragedy is that we are not exploiting what we know about reducing the incidence of reading failure. Specifically, the instruction currently being provided to our children does not reflect what we know from research.
