Reading Interventions & Dyslexia Friendly Schools

The development of skilled reading

- Castles & Nation, 2006 - lexical & sub-lexical skills - successful readers use both skills

Reading Interventions

Whole - word approaches - lexical

Phonics approaches - sub-lexical

Clicker - Crick Software LTD.

Karemaker, 2010 +
- naturalistic study
- inervention lead to signif. greater gains in word recognition, word naming, rhyming & segmentation skills & grapheme awareness
- teacher led intervention
-AB-BA design

ABRACADABRA
A Balanced Reading Approach for Canadians Designed to Achieve Best Results for All.

Savage, 2009 +
- RCT - in class intervention led by trained facilitators - teachers??
- ABRA synthetic, ABRA analytic, control
- greater overall improvements for ABRA students

Measures of literacy

Other factors

Design considerations
- ethical & practical

RCT
- intervention groups

Naturalistic Approach
- compare students in classrooms that already adopt one approach with students in classrooms that don't

AB-BA Design
- Group 1 : control then intervention
- Group 2 : intervention then control

Other resources available to help support learning to read!

Jolly Phonics

Word Shark

Dyslexia friendliness - Pavey, 2007
- teachers fully understand & are sympathetic to the needs of dyslexics & adjustments are made to day-to-day routines & teaching that benefit ALL learners
= support rather than intervene

The Dyslexia Friendly Classroom -
Pavey, 2007; DfES, 2007
- 3 tier approach
- teacher should foster a classroom culture of peer support
- IEPs - Individual Education Plans!!
- identify concrete steps towards progression & involve pupils in target setting

Dyslexia - Primary difficulties

Good practice in the dyslexia friendly classroom

Strategies to aid reading
- books/worksheets
- blackboard work

Strategies to aid spelling
- phonetic dictionaries
- key word banks
- mnemonics
- use of spell checkers
- 'spelling buddies'

Strategies to support over-learning
- acquisition - flash cards
- fluency - prompt sheets
- maintenance & generalisation - home-school links/practice
- adaptation - require & test new skills in diff contexts

Dyslexia - Secondary difficulties

SEN as developmental difference

Social & emotional consequences of dyslexia - Riddick, 1996

Intervention = cyclical process