USE OF INTERACTIVE
Presenter #1
Linda Oswalt
Chino Valley U.S.D.
1544 Berea Ct.
Claremont
CA
91711-3505
USA
Day Phone: 909 621 2307
Fax: 909 624 7495
Email: linaka@sprynet.com
PRESENTER #2
Stanley Oswalt
Chino Valley U.S.D.
1544 Berea Ct.
Claremont
CA
91711-3505
USA
Day Phone: 909 621 02307
Fax:
Email:
Interactive reading software can help students raise reading scores as much
as three years in one academic year. User-friendly software will be
demonstrated.
Use Interactive Reading Software to Teach Reading and Raise Reading Scores
and Literacy Levels
Interactive reading software can be effectively used to teach reading, raise
reading scores, and increase literacy levels. A number of Interactive Reading
Programs are available to use in teaching students of all levels and abilities
to read. Often students with learning disabilities are unable to
learn by the traditional phonics instruction but can, and do, learn to read
using more sight -based reading instruction. See how programs such as Lexia SOS, Start-To-Finish, Read Naturally and other useful
interactive reading programs and software (that use the neurological impress method)
can help your students raise their reading scores as much as three years in one
academic instructional year. User-friendly programs will be demonstrated
to teach multiple skill levels from non-reader to higher functional levels. The
neurological impress method, whether utilizing interactive software or other
reading programs or materials, can improve reading scores with students being
served in!
the special education programs within the
public school system.
A number of Interactive Reading Programs are available for teaching
students of all levels and abilities to read. Often students with
learning disabilities are unable to learn by the traditional phonics
instruction but can, and do, learn to read using more sight -based reading
instruction. I would like to present some interactive reading programs
that are user friendly and, for the most part, affordable to Special Education
Teacher budgets. For twenty-five years, both in private practice and in
public education, I have continued to use interactive reading instruction
programs. Participants will see how the use of programs such as Lexia SOS, Start-To-Finish Books, Read Naturally, Edmark and other effective interactive reading programs and
software will help their students raise their reading scores as much as three
years in one academic instructional year (and raise their confidence level,
too). Programs and techniques that have proven successful will be demonstrated,
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teach skill levels from non-readers to
higher functioning students. I will also show suggested supplemental or
printable materials to use with these programs. Attendees will see ways
that they can turn non-readers into readers and raise reading scores at any
level.
The neurological impress method is an approach to teaching reading in which
the teacher, or a model such as a computer or CD, and
learner read together while tracking the words. This method has been
shown to be extremely successful when teaching students to read that have not
been successful with other reading instruction in the past. One of the
simplest and most effective ways to use this method is by incorporating
interactive software that teaches reading. Students read along,
following visual cues while listening to verbal prompts.
People of all ages seem to love working on computers. Instructors can
teach one-to-one, in small groups, or with the entire class using such
programs. Based on my experience, students of average intelligence, using these
programs three times a week, will improve their reading scores from two to four
grade levels during one academic calendar year. Students with less than average
intelligence can improve one to two years academically, based on my experience
and data collected.
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