The reflection questions from this week include: Several approaches and suggestions were mentioned by the authors, however challenges continue to impact educating students who are D/HH. In thinking of your classroom, what components of reading and writing do you feel are important to teach and how will you teach them?
The age level for my students are a huge deciding factor for what components that I feel are important to teach. For the elementary students I would focus on phonemic awareness and phonics and start to build the vocabulary. Visual phonics activities are a great way to get the students engaged in learning phonics and building their phonemic awareness skills. In developing vocabulary, I would use a lot of visuals and help the students make sense of it using their language and things around them that can help them associate the word with its meaning. For older students, comprehension and fluency are big areas to target. Repeat readings and questioning help build these skills, readers' theater is another way to help build these skills.
There is no one right answer to what is important to teach, but it is important to provide the support in the areas that the student is struggling with as well as build their skills in the other areas. Its all about balance!
I like your emphasis on balance! In the area of reading, it is not teaching only one skill at a time, but connecting them all together. In a lesson I taught today I worked on fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and even hit on phonics a few times. You are absolutely on point with the visuals also...they are key!!
ReplyDeleteI also believe that balance is important in reading! Like Amanda said, teachers can teach one area of reading simultaneously. Visuals are important for d/Deaf and hard of hearing students! Repetition is important in reading. I remember reading several passages over and over until I understood them and participating in activities in middle school.
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