Seeking feedback
ANANNY
Are you familiar with the book "I Get It!! Building Social Thinking and Reading Comprehension Through Book Chats. This was shared by our Speech Therapist. I guess this is a summation of the first four pages of the book. I am wondering if anyone has any insights on this book, topic, et al.
The following steps are the BARE basics concepts the kids need before they can advance with reading comprehension and deeper meaning to text.
1. Understanding facial expression and non verbal body language 2. Develop the ability to understand that my thoughts, emotions, and reactions differ from those around me.
3. Empathy and development that I need to change my feelings and behaviors based on others behavior.
4. Then analysis of reactions of others to my behavior and change that behavior 5. finally develop an understanding that different groups create their own social rules
That being said:
1. Comprehension suffers because the above concepts are not developed 2. Their "social software" doesn't run well. They can't react quick enough to completely understand and respond appropriately so they seem 2 steps behind their peers.
3. Academic scores can be misleading. If they have high cognitive skills, can decode, and are able to answer basic questions they can successfully get through 2nd grade.
4. They have difficulty comprehending implicit information such as predictions and inferences, understanding emotional responses, interpreting motives, and identifying the main idea. These things happen socially in every aspect of their day.
Understanding why writing is so difficult:
1. Written language is much different than spoken language. It is not speech written on paper but makes use of language in ways that my be unfamiliar.
2. Written language is displaced from the students reality. It is not happening right now so it takes a level of forethought and the ability to synthesize information.
3. Written language requires that the reader move forward without explicit clarification. In spoken language a listener can stop the speaker and ask for clarification, whereas a reader cannot do this with an author.
4. The students progress in their listening comprehension may lag behind and may contribute to their simple views and ideas.
Reading comprehension
1. Overwhelming difficulty filling in the missing details and summarizing information to construct full meaning 2. They must have the self awareness to recognize that shortfall so they become better self advocate.
