[DOWNLOAD] ~ Creating an Environment for Success (Practice Perspectives) * by Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Creating an Environment for Success (Practice Perspectives)
- Author : Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
Description
Reading instruction is one of the most challenging and rewarding responsibilities of teachers of students with visual impairments. Finding strategies that motivate readers is a challenge, but the spark of inspiration for struggling readers often comes from a classroom environment that provides opportunities for success. After an environment of literacy has been established, the students are given the freedom to see themselves as successful readers rather than failures. Within such an environment, strategies are as varied as the individual students with which we work. Joe, Charlie, and Cathy have all been students of mine over the years. They would all be classified as struggling readers, but they were as unique in their reading abilities as they were unique as children. All three students were congenitally blind, learned braille as their first and only reading medium, and attended a specialized school for children with visual impairments. Joe came into my fifth-grade class with no interest in books and very little desire to read anything. He occasionally made slightly negative comments about reading activities. Joe told me that when he was younger, he would just pretend to read during reading time. After reading his educational history and talking with his previous teacher, I knew I would be working with a child who had been diagnosed with a reading disability, had labored over reading for years, and had worked hard to learn reading strategies, but often couldn't remember them the next day. When he did read, it was slow and laborious: He "sounded out" each word on the page. Instead of facing failure, Joe needed to find success.
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