The "more time " and more expert instruction model is exactly what Fuchs and Fuchs are proposing in their book Response To Intervention. I have learned as a Reading Specialist that the decoding piece is what is missing for many kids with learning disabilities in reading. The interventon is meant to shore up that deficit without ever letting go of the other pieces that make reading a thinking, reflective and repsonsive activity. I have found that some kids really do need more explicit instruction concerning sound patterns and how words work. They don't get the patterns or they are not able to retrieve that information quickly enough to be automatic readers. These kids also need scaffolding to help them comprehend, such as reading shorter chunks of text and stopping to record their thinking, citing parts of text that confirm their thinking, text mapping ,etc. just to name a few. I definitely agree that programs generally do not give the immediate feedback and comprehensive literacy teaching that we know is best practice and there is definitely a danger to opening a crack in the door to let "programs" in, but there is benefit to some of the systematic approaches to word work for those particular students who are not responding to what we offer to our students in a comprehensive literacy approach. Good teachers know , as Richard Allington strongly asserts , that there is no easy fix for struggling readers. I think the key is knowing the student well enough to be able to prescribe the best appproach to foster growth. The more we become aware of reading behaviors, the better we will be able to intervene effectively.Programs, as such, do not support that approach, but some can be used affectively to bring real growth for some students IN CONJUNCTION WITH best practices in literacy instruction. Laura Klug Franklin,TN
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Thu 1/15/2009 7:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Interventions Bev... What you describe sounds to me like RTI but not the RTI model often described here...but one where we really seriously give kids who struggle more time and more expert instruction. It is what RTI SHOULD look like. I had to LOL when you started writing about doing doctoral research. I am in the very earliest stages of thinking about my research. I have started a literature review on lesson study, BUT I am not at all certain that I will go that way. My temptation is to research the new research based programs in our district and using MY rules...measuring comprehension... not just reading rates and decoding nonsense words. I keep wavering back and forth. Either way, it will be reading comprehension related...lesson study in reading lessons OR what the long term affects are of direct instruction decoding programs on comprehension. Jennifer In a message dated 1/13/2009 9:35:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Yes, I've thought about a lot of the same issues. What we have been doing for intervention, the last decade and more, is giving each child a "session" of balanced literacy by the classroom teacher, a session of balanced literacy by a Title teacher, and giving those in greatest need yet another session (Reading Recovery). If only I could lop a couple of decades off my age, and I was in the mood to pursue a doctorate, what I would absolutely research for my thesis would be a comparison of programs such as described above, with programs that provided balanced literacy and an "intervention in a box", with programs that were exclusively direct instruction. **************Inauguration '09: Get complete coverage from the nation's capital. (http://news.aol.com/main/politics/inauguration?ncid=emlcntusnews00000003) _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
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