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• Archive: Students CAN expand their basic reading and writing skills, even when diagnosed with Dyslexia and/or Dysgraphia.This presentation is filled with abundant child-centered, classroom-proven strategies and materials for building skills in the seven foundational areas for reading: phonemic and phonological awareness, vocabulary and word knowledge, changes in word meaning, sentence structure, narrative composition and spelling.Even more strategies and materials are provided for underlying characteristics that affect students’ performance such as anxiety, executive function, auditory processing and visual processing.Take away strategies designed to accelerate your students’ progress in reading and written expression through innovative and successful field-tested methods and practical tips.Assess and discuss misunderstandings and inaccurate perceptions about the characteristics of Specific Learning Disorder diagnosis and its’ impact on student performance.Use music and physical movement to prepare the brain for learning and to enhance retention and recall.Choose appropriate interventions for letter formation, spacing, capitalization, punctuation to improve treatment outcomes.Implement techniques to boost reading comprehension and enhance critical thinking skills.Apply strategies related to the seven foundational skills of reading to inform choice of treatment interventions.Create effective methods to support students’ written language abilities and to reduce anxiety about written expression.Formulate plans to improve student outcomes in reading and written language through applying learned strategies and resources.Dispelling Myths about Dyslexia and DysgraphiaDyslexia/Dysgraphia can be diagnosedStudents will not just “get over it” or grow out of itStudents won’t do better if they just “try harder”Preparing the Brain For LearningThe benefits of music and movement for the reading/writing brainEngaging positive self-talkResources for implementing movement in the classroomFoundational skills for proficient readersPhonemic AwarenessPhonological AwarenessVisual TrackingBlendingSegmentingMulti-syllable WordsFluencyBoosting ComprehensionIdentifying unknown wordsThinking and remembering in categoriesCreating meaningful, memorable definitionsInference and prediction, Idioms, Multiple-Meaning WordsLiteral vs.
• OpinionStrategies for Written ExpressionImproving letter formation, spacing, capitalization, punctuationOvercoming spelling difficultiesChoosing words to write withBuilding SentencesWriting from PicturesCollecting and using ideas for writingAssistive Technology, Accommodations and Supports