Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g6MEg8X08577; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:42:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:42:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3D3CC1D2.6715C82F@ellijay.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Art LaChance <arthur@ellijay.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:4012] Re: Readability X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) Status: O Content-Length: 1643 Lines: 38 Andrea and Mary, Expansion on this idea. If a new student only reads silently and answers multiple choice questions on some evaluation 'test' a teacher will not get a clear view of actual 'reading' skill. One must listen to how the student reads. Newspapers are written at a low enough level that most adult lit students can read them effortlessly, but the students who have difficulty with larger unfamilar and/or multi-syllable vocabulary will stumble and the problem(s) they have with processing the skills involved will just pop out. After a teacher practices with this method a few times it's only necessary that a student read a sentence or two before the teacher can place them in terms of approximate grade level for remediation purposes. Newspapers are generally non-threatening and when approached without warning to the student as in "Here read this sentence for me", the student has not much opportunity to drag up negative emotions, and poof the episode is over and the teacher knows what they need in order to start. "Testing" may come later, after the student achieves some level of comfort with the overall situation. Additionally, I use this very systematically to determine if the student is reading horizontal word lists or is reading in context. art Art LaChance Gilmer Learning Center Ellijay, GA AWilder106@aol.com wrote: > Dear Mary, > > I like it! Art, who is also on this list, just gives a newspaper to a new > arrival and sees what the person can do with it. But this doesn't exactly > show up on the airwaves when "readability" is discussed. Maybe just have a > vareity of texts around? > > Thanks.
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