How To Read Big Words
Violet Mcdow
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When children have learning problems, their parents are usually the first to notice that something is just not right. Teachers often notice a child having trouble in their class. And when they notice, they want reliable information so they can help their students.
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I have an interest in trying to find some extra help and resources and understanding for a 2nd grade little girl who is having problems reading. it appears she can read the word if it is all by itself, but included in a sentence or in a list of words she can draw it out and read it? Is there a name for this and can anyone give me any feedback at all? thanks
When a child can decode words in isolation but cannot do it in text, there is almost always a developmental vision delay involved. It would be up to the parents to take the child to a developmental optometrist (or an opthalmologist who utilizes an orthoptician to assess developmental vision). Developmental vision problems are not tested in regular eye exams, unfortunately. You can find out more about developmental vision problems at , and locate board-certified developmental optometrists in your area at
Developmental vision problems are usually highly responsive to vision therapy, but that can be expensive. If the parents are on a budget, they may want to utilize an optometrist listed at . These optometrists are licensed to dispense computer software that can be used at home. This software works on some of the most common developmental vision problems.
You could also check to see what kind of educational testing assesses visual processing skills. This is another kind of testing you can sometimes get through the school. This would verify that there is a problem, but would not indicate what to do about it. However, it would strengthen the case for the parents getting a developmental vision evaluation for the child.
Another thing that helped my son was developmental reading lens. These are an overprescription that basically makes print larger. Larger print is easier to read so another suggestion is to pick books with large print. We actually went to large print books for a year or so. It made a big difference then (not so much now).
To get good testing, you need to ask around for people in your area. If you live in a metro area of some city, chances are good someone will know somebody. You can contact IDA (International Dyslexia Assoc.) www.interdys.org ; you can look under iser.com; also there might be people known by the local LD association or in the local weeklies (ask carefully). The later more for tutoring though.
I am a reading tutor. Every child that I have encountered who has this problem has a significant visual deficit. I totally agree with Nancy that this child needs a developmental vision exam or something comparable such as an assessment and home treatment plan by a Handle practitioner (www.handle.org).
Sylvan is high-priced drill-and-grill. If drill is what a child needs and the parents would rather pay top dollar for it rather than do it themselves, fine. For anything else, it is worthless. Many children with reading problems have undiagnosed underlying deficits. A better approach is to diagnose the deficits and provide appropriate therapy to reduce them.
I work with students who have the apptitude to read and for a vareity of reason do not. Fluency (reading passages vs. words in isolation) is a common problem. I do a lot of work with timed activities ( tracking their times- like a game). First I have them attempt words, ( goal 60 words in 60 seconds)then move to sentences. ( I use an old program called Sounder from Edmark) Using text below their grade level is critical. They need to increase speed with words they know rather than using decoding or other skills. I also have them read a passage three times ( approx. 100 words ) and time it each time. I typically see a big improvement by the third read. I also partner read trying to keep the pace moving. You can tape record a pre read and have your child read along with the tape. It is vital when working on fluency, that they are not working on identifying new words.
I also use one of the Lindamood Bell programs ( Seeing Star) to increas visual memory skills)
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What do I need to do in InDesign (16) or Acrobat to have screen readers read the text as words instead of individual letters? I have both live/editable text and text as outlines that have tracking from +20 to +200(ish) in my document. I would like this to be more accessible for those who use screen readers.
If you copied/pasted from somewhere, don't do that. InDesign and the PDF conversion utility need a graphic file to hang the Alt-text on. So use the regular File / Place method of bringing in graphics.
If the graphic was created in InDesign, it's dicey how it will come out in the PDF. Sometimes the Alt-text is correct in the PDF, sometimes not. At this time, we do not recommend making graphics inside InDesign.
First law of accessibility: don't have dead (or outlined) text in your document. Dead text can't "play well" with live human users and their assistive technologies, so you -- as a content creator -- should avoid it in your documents.
There are many reasons to listen to a document, such as proofreading, multitasking, or increased comprehension and learning. Word makes listening possible by using the text-to-speech (TTS) ability of your device to play back written text as spoken words.
Narrator is the Windows Screen reader app that reads your dialog boxes, buttons, and other user interfaces as well as the text. For more information about Narrator, see Using Windows Narrator in Office for the web.
Speak is a built-in feature of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Speak reads aloud only the text you select. Read Aloud reads the entire document starting from your cursor location like an audiobook.
In the list, select Speech, and then select the check box next to Speak selected text when the key is pressed.
In the Speech settings, you can also change the keyboard combination, select a different system voice, and adjust the speaking rate.
It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test.
Reading scores had been low for a while, but for most of the five years that Silva had been chief academic officer, he and other school leaders had been consumed with a severe budget crisis. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible. "It was really looking yourself in the mirror and saying, 'Which four in 10 students don't deserve to learn to read?'" he said.
The stakes were high. Research shows that children who don't learn to read by the end of third grade are likely to remain poor readers for the rest of their lives, and they're likely to fall behind in other academic areas, too. People who struggle with reading are more likely to drop out of high school, to end up in the criminal justice system, and to live in poverty. But as a nation, we've come to accept a high percentage of kids not reading well. More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it's been that way since testing began in the 1990s.
One of the excuses educators have long offered to explain America's poor reading performance is poverty. There is plenty of poverty in Bethlehem, a small city in eastern Pennsylvania that was once a booming steel town. But there are fancy homes here, too, and when Silva examined the reading scores he saw that many kids at the wealthier schools weren't reading very well either. This was not just poverty. In fact, by some estimates, one-third of America's struggling readers are from college-educated families.
"There are thousands of studies," said Louisa Moats, an education consultant and researcher who has been teaching and studying reading since the 1970s. "This is the most studied aspect of human learning."
But this research hasn't made its way into many elementary school classrooms. The prevailing approaches to reading instruction in American schools are inconsistent with basic things scientists have discovered about how children learn to read. Many educators don't know the science, and in some cases actively resist it. The resistance is the result of beliefs about reading that have been deeply held in the educational establishment for decades, even though those beliefs have been proven wrong by scientists over and over again.
Most teachers nationwide are not being taught reading science in their teacher preparation programs because many deans and faculty in colleges of education either don't know the science or dismiss it. As a result of their intransigence, millions of kids have been set up to fail.
Even though Silva had known little about how children learn to read or how reading should be taught, he'd long been aware that some older students were struggling too. He'd been a middle school and high school teacher for years, and he had students who came across words they'd never seen before and had no idea how to sound them out.
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