Dear IRIS Family, A good deal of our work here at the IRIS Center lies not only in developing new resources but also in expanding and keeping our existing materials up to date. Recently, we've completed our efforts to revise and renovate a pair of IRIS Modules, which as of December 22, 2008, will no longer be available.
The first of these, See Jane Read: Teaching Reading to Young Children of Varying Disabilities, has been replaced by a duo of new modules: PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades K-1 Join kindergarten teachers Mrs. Doris and Ms. Chandler and the staff of Washington Elementary as they implement the PALS reading strategy with their students. To view PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades K-1, please go to http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/palsk1/chalcycle.htm. and The Pre-Referral Process: Procedures for Supporting Students with Academic and Behavioral Concerns Deborah Delatorre is new to Macy Middle School and new to teaching fifth graders. For the last twenty years, she taught fourth graders at a private elementary school, and this will be her first year teaching at a public school. Her last school had a system for supporting students with and without disabilities, but it was not a formal process. She wonders what she needs to know about pre-referral, and she recognizes that she has a lot to learn in her new job. To view The Pre-Referral Process: Procedures for Supporting Students with Academic and Behavioral Concerns, please go to http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/preref/chalcycle.htm We are also replacing The Reading Blues: Strategies to Help Upper-Elementary Students Move From Struggle to Success. Besides the pre-referral section noted above (and which both of the older modules shared), the content in this module will be exchanged for: PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades 2-6 Join Mrs. Nash, a fifth-grade teacher at Miller Elementary, as she learns how to implement the PALS reading approach in her classroom. To view PALS: A Reading Strategy for Grades 2-6, please go to HYPERLINK "http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/pals26/chalcycle.htm"; http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/pals26/chalcycle.htm and CSR: A Comprehensive Reading Strategy Join Mr. Dupree as he learns about Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR), an approach that students with varying reading abilities can apply to improve comprehension while reading expository text in small, cooperative learning groups. To view CSR: A Reading Comprehension Strategy, please go to http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/csr/challenge.htm. As always, we encourage you to share all of our materials (http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/) with your colleagues and students. If you have any questions concerning IRIS materials, please contact Kim Skow at 800-831-6134, kimberly.a.s...@vanderbilt.edu, or i...@vanderbilt.edu. Sincerely, The IRIS Center The IRIS Center Vanderbilt University Peabody College, Box 160 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37203 i...@vanderbilt.edu 615-343-5610 615-343-5611 (fax) http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu____________________________________
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