flying fingers, continued… assessment and remediation for braille reading fluency ctevbi 2013
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Flying Fingers, Continued…
Assessment and Remediation For Braille Reading Fluency
CTEVBI 2013
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Liz Barclay, CoordinatorAssessment ProgramCalifornia School for the Blind [email protected]
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Reading Fluency
• Reading fluency refers to a level of reading accuracy and rate at which decoding is relatively effortless; oral reading is smooth and accurate with correct prosody (expression); and attention can be allocated to comprehension” (Wolfe & Katzir-Cohen, 2001, p. 219).
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Reading FluencyPertains to both oral and silent reading:
• Accuracy: Recognizing words automatically, with little effort
• Speed: Rate of reading, words per minute
• Appropriate expression: Using phrasing, tone and pitch so that oral reading sounds conversational
• Comprehension: Understanding that is evaluated through retellings, answering questions, discussion, dramatic interpretation, art, etc.
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Fluency Issues(Jerry Johns)
• Type 1: The student reads fluently (sounds good) but exhibits little comprehension
• Type 2: The student struggles with words and meaning
• Type 3: The student stumbles over words but has surprisingly strong comprehension
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Fluency Issues (Jerry Johns)
• Type 4: The student reads material slowly, at or near grade level, with acceptable to good comprehension
• Type 5: The student’s oral reading lacks prosody (a factor of comprehension)
• Type 6: The student has generally poor reading skills and is functioning far below grade level
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Print: Typical Oral Reading Speeds (Hasbrouck and Tindal, 2006)
Grade Words per minute
(50th percentile (Spring))
1 53
2 89
3 107
4 123
5 139
6 150
7 150
8 151
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ABC Study: Oral Reading Fluency Results (BRI, Jerry Johns)
Grade WPM range Mean OFR for sighted students @ 50 percentile*
1 16 - 48 34.13 53
2 19 – 89 47.52 89
3 21 - 86 53.19 107
4 15 - 115 62.44 123
* Hasbrouk and Tindal, 2006
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Factors that Impact Fluency• Word recognition: fast, accurate • Having large sight word vocabulary• Reading widely and often provides practice to
solidify skills and promotes confidence in reading
• Opportunities to participate in oral reading• Listening to teachers read aloud on a daily
basis to provide a model
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Factors that may Influence Fluency for Braille Readers
• Tactile perceptual abilities and hand use
• Knowledge of contractions
• Availability of braille materials
• Opportunities for regular reading practice
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Poor reading fluency
• When a student must expend energy on decoding words there is little concentration left for comprehension
• A student who has trouble recognizing/reading words has limited reading fluency and therefore, limited comprehension
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Reading fluency
• Fluency increases comprehension
• Fluency with text helps to affirm and support a student’s positive perception as a reader
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Detecting and Defining Fluency Problems:Assessment
• Basic Reading Inventory• Jerry Johns
• Diagnostic Reading Scales• Spache
• Woodcock Johnson• DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy
Skills)
• Running Records and Miscue Analysis• Braille Reading Miscue Analysis
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Erik
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Basic Reading Inventory: Erik
Word reading sight: analyzed:
First grade words 16/20 2/20Second grade words: 15/20 4/20
Types of errors: irregular words, unknown vowel diagraphs
2 braille reading errors
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Basic Reading Inventory: Erik
Reading continuous text
(on a second grade passage)– Reads haltingly with little expression– Repeatedly backtracks over braille lines before oral
reading– Relies heavily on context during decoding– Some braille reading errors– Immature hand use: uses primarily right hand with lots of
scrubbing– 38 words per minute
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Strategies for Erik• Continue to teach decoding strategies• Assisted reading• Shared reading• Timed repeated readings• Reader’s Theater• Targeted braille recognition practice• Hand use exercises • Daily oral reading practice• Provide abundance of reading materials of high interest• Experiential learning & vocabulary development
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Tactile Perceptual Skills: Hand Use
• Reading Mechanics– Spatial skills– Finger use– Finger and hand position– Lightness of touch
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Tactile Perceptual Skills: Character Recognition
• Character recognition– Tactile perceptual skills
– Accurate character recognition– Light touch – Understanding of dot configuration (memory)
– Issues• Reversals• Scrubbing
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Poor Reading Fluency Characteristics and StrategiesReading characteristics: StrategiesStruggles with decoding Teach decoding and word identification strategies
Word patterns and structural analysis Develop basic site word knowledge Assisted reading
Struggles with meaning Model oral reading Language experience stories Experiential learning Apply to prior knowledge Picture walks Guided oral reading techniques, including introduction of new vocabulary Assisted reading
Reads slowly Model oral reading Develop basic site word knowledge Shared reading Assisted reading Timed repeated readings (using readable vocabulary*)
Lacks prosody Model oral reading Shared reading Partner reading Choral reading “Say it like a character” Reader’s Theater
Below grade level reading skills Teach phonemic skills and decoding strategies Word patterns and structural analysis Develop basic site word knowledge Assisted reading Timed repeated readings (using readable vocabulary*)
Braille specific characteristics: StrategiesPoor character recognition Return to Mangold precision teaching (over-learning) techniques ( emphasizing finger use, hand position and lightness of touch)
Hand use exercises using poetry, music and jokes( emphasizing finger use, hand position and lightness of touch) Timed repeated readings at a grade level lower that reading level Using technology, such as SAL Assisted reading
Frequent reversalsPoor hand useScrubbing
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Most importantly: Offer daily opportunities for students to read easy and enjoyable reading materials independently.
Student should be able to independently decode and at least 90% of words
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Fluency Building Strategies
• Model oral reading
• Match students’ reading abilities to appropriate materials for instruction– Offer daily opportunities for students to read easy
materials independently
• Provide guided oral reading opportunities
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Fluency Building Strategies• Teacher read alouds
• Timed Repeated Readings
• Assisted Reading
• Language experience
• Phonemic awareness
• Building a basic sight vocabulary
• Word identification: Decoding strategies (Jerry Johns)
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Supplemental Intervention Reading Programs
• Examples:– Read Naturally– Fast Track Reading– Wilson Fluency/Basic
• Reviews: – Oregon Reading First Center (
www.oregonreadingfirst.oregon.edu/inst_curr_review)
– What Works Clearinghouse (ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc)
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Prosody Strategies
• Shared reading• Partner reading• Choral reading• “Say it Like a Character”• Reader’s Theater
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Braille Fluency StrategiesMechanical Skills
Teach and emphasize the following:
•Use at least four fingers at all times•Use very light pressure when touching braille dots•Utilize the two handed reading technique in which the left hand locates the beginning of the next line, while the right hand finishes reading the previous line.•Exhibit few regressive hand movements (either vertically or horizontally)
Use:•Precision Teaching
– Over-learning
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Building Speed (Jerry Whittle)
Provide instruction that includes:• Daily reading practice, using materials that are easy
and interesting
• Setting goals and charting progress– # of pages– Words per minute
• Schedule braille reading when student is least fatigued
• Practice reading aloud
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Braille Fluency StrategiesGoals
Consistent Character Recognition•Demonstrate the ability to scan efficiently when reading both vertical and horizontal format.•Demonstrate the ability to read letters accurately without confusing letters that are mirror images of other letters.Mechanical•Demonstrate optimal hand use during braille reading by using at least 4 fingers with light pressure, both hands, Speed•Increase braille reading speed through charting of words per minute on braille reading passages.
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Technology Tools
• For teaching and practice– SAL– Braille note-takers
• To maintain curricular access– Braille note-takers– Listening technology
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“The powerful influence of early reading on later reading and vocabulary growth was demonstrated when researchers had children keep diaries of how they spend their time when they were not in school. The very best readers, those who scored better than 90 percent of their peers on reading tests, read for more than twenty minutes a day (about 1.8 million words per year), while those at the fiftieth percentile read only 4.6 minutes a day (282,000 words yearly). The poorest readers, those children reading below the tenth percentile, read less than one minute each day (8,000 words per year), and would require a year to read what the best readers read in two days.” (From: Overcoming Dyslexia, by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.)