Jennifer Drysdale PT Learning Support Service Fife jendrysdalefreezone

Jennifer Drysdale PT Learning Support Service Fife jendrysdale@freezone. co. uk Workshop for Literacy A Contextual Approach for Successful Learning You can read more about the Workshop for Literacy in The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia edited by Gavin Reid OR The current edition of English Four to Eleven Number 39 Summer 2010 J Drysdale 1 Published by The English Association and the United Kingdom Literacy Association Workshop for Literacy

WORKSHOP FOR LITERACY Early Identification of core skills development Contexts created around ‘real ‘ books Contextual Assessment Successful learning experiences J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 2

WORKSHOP PROJECT Training and support visits Skills tracking framework 2008 – 2009 1 Cluster 6 Schools 10 P 1 classes 2009 – 2010 6 Clusters 34 P 1 classes 10 P 2 classes 3 Nurseries 2010 -2011 46 new schools across Fife Some schools in every Cluster 34 P 2 classes. J Drysdale 10 P 3 classes Workshop for Literacy 3

HOW THE WORKSHOP SUPPORTS DYSLEXIA PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS Early indicators COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Core development to facilitate literacy LEARNING PROCESS Learning steps are the same for all J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 4

ORAL VOCABULARY …ENABLES Literacy Children’s books contain 50% wider range of vocabulary than television programmes or conversation J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 5 Cunningham and Stanovich

NAMING SPEED …ENABLES Literacy education elephant triangle strawberries phonological plodoustrophy Visual to Phonological correspondence J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 6

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS …ENABLES Literacy words rhyme syllables phonemes Children who can’t segment phonemes, will experience difficulty in learning to read and write. J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 7

CREATE A ‘READING BRAIN’ ORTHOGRAPHY PHONOLOGY Phonological processing Visual processing Orthographic coding Phonic coding SEMANTICS: vocabulary and meaning verbal STM J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 8

SUCCESS DEPENDS ON…. quality practice Who gets most opportunity to read? …. opportunity determines success J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 9

VITAL LEARNING PROCESS Phonological awareness In the and phonic knowledge EARLY YEARS Accurate word reading results in stored knowledge of every sound / letter in a word Sight vocabulary Skilled, fluent reading J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 10

THE READING RICH WILL GET RICHER…… Don’t let the poor get poorer J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 11

He opened two presents. J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 12

HELPING THE LEARNER WITH SPECIFIC DIFFICULTY Support learning in its natural context J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 13

PHONOLOGY to ORTHOGRAPHY Two sustainable sounds Contrasting lip shapes l w la m b Match sounds letters sounds SHOW how letters make words J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 14

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PRACTISE THE RIGHT THINGS Discriminate between 2 sustainable sounds Match letters to sounds Use to discriminate between words in context Experience the reading process - don’t perfect guess work J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 17

DEVELOP PHONICS EFFECTIVE PHONICS Using sounds and letters to make words J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 18

SKILLS: GETTING a BALANCE Right Hemisphere lettersform and direction Left Hemisphere language prediction Beware of early overreliance on one mode J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 19

INDIVIDUAL READING look out for ……… …too much Someone’s prediction putting in extra words - and he’s reading far too quickly ! This reader looks at the ceiling rather than the text J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 20

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INDIVIDUAL READING - look out for ……… …too much sounding out ! Someone’s sounding out all the letters – and she’s far This reader attends to too slow ! every single letter in J Drysdale most words. Workshop for Literacy 23

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INDIVIDUAL READING …. …just right Someone’s using skills together - and it’s just right ! This reader will recognise some words, predict some words and use some phonic cues J Drysdale 26 Workshop for Literacy

He opened two presents. Everyone c…… to the party. J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 27

It went outside. The children b……………. wi’ the bubbles. J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 28

DISCOVERING HOW LITERACY WORKS ENG 0 -12 a: I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together …. One day Humpty came to my house. He had macroanay and chips and broclay and it waz deelishz J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 29

USEFUL SOFTWARE Clicker Grids free downloads Clicker talking books Clicker sequencing / broken sentences Cloze Pro Crick Software Co. Writer Don Johnston Incorporated Kidspiration Inspiration Software Inc Crazy Talk Reallusion Inc J Drysdale Workshop for Literacy 30