Brain Scans Show Dyslexics Read Better with Alternative Strategies

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This research shows that there are two independent systems for reading: one that is typical for the majority of readers, and another that is more effective for the dyslexic thinker.

The dyslexic subjects had childhood histories of dyslexia and continued to show some symptoms related to reading, but their overall reading ability varied.

For some word recognition and comprehension tasks, the dyslexic men scored as well as or better than controls.

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Research correlating brain activity with reading ability showed an intriguing inverse relationship between reading ability and cerebral blood flow patterns.

For nondyslexic controls, stronger activation of left hemispheric reading systems, including the left angular gyrus, corresponded to better reading skill.

Poor Reading Skills Have Both Physical, Environmental Causes

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Reading problems in young children may be influenced by a combination of both neurological and environmental factors, according to a new study.

"Children may fail to develop adequate reading skills because of their environment, abnormal brain structure, or both," says lead study author Mark A. Eckert, Ph.D., of the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida.

The researchers found that reading skill and verbal ability were predicted by asymmetry of the temporal plane, a brain area that processes auditory information.

Child Development is the bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Research in Child Development.

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About Reading In Motion

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Why does Reading in Motion use the arts to teach reading?

Reading in Motion uses the arts to teach reading because the arts work.

Reading in Motion believes that schools should be places where children discover their own uniqueness and strength---not just places for students to memorize facts and repeat them back.

Word Knowledge, an early reading skill, involves students learning to hear and manipulate the individual sounds within spoken words, learning the shapes of letters and connecting spoken sounds to the correct letter shape which represent them.

Reading in Motion's Prepare-Explain-Practice-Reflect (PEPR) process can be used to plan one lesson or a whole series of lessons.

SEDL Letter Volume XIV, Number 3: Putting Reading First - Ten Myths of Reading Instruction

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It has often been suggested that children will learn to read if they are simply immersed in a literacy-rich environment and allowed to develop literacy skills in their own way.

Myth 5: Skilled reading involves using syntactic and semantic cues to guess words, and good readers make many "mistakes" as they read authentic text.

The evidence showing the importance of phoneme awareness to literacy acquisition is overwhelming.

They usually believe children develop phoneme awareness as they learn to read, but they claim phoneme awareness is nothing more than a byproduct of reading acquisition, arising as a result of learning to read --- not the other way around.

Journal of Special Education: The relationships among phonological processing, orthographic processing, and lexical development in children with reading disabilities - Statistical Data Included

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between phonological and orthographic processing skills in relation to the two lexical acquisition systems (i.e., word-specific knowledge and subword orthographic--phonological connections) in children with and without reading disabilities (RD).

First, there is a continuous increase in the absolute number of orthographically addressable entries, often referred to as "word-specific" representations.

This implies that word-specific representations form relatively rapidly as children develop reading skills.

The cipher is best conceptualized as a set of abstract context-dependent relationships between orthography and phonology that are "implicit, very numerous, and very fast" (Gough et al., 1992, p. 38).

ACT's ASSET : Reading Skills Test

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The ASSET Reading Skills Test is a 24-item, 25-minute test that measures reading comprehension as a product of skill in referring and reasoning.

The test items require students to derive meaning from several tests by (1) referring to what is explicitly stated and determining the meaning of words through context and by (2) reasoning to determine implicit meanings and to draw conclusions, comparisons, and generalizations.

The test consists of three prose passages of about 375 words each that are representative of the level and kinds of writing commonly encountered in college freshman curricula.

The approximate proportion of the test devoted to each type of reading item is given below.

ACCU-READING (Skill levels 5 to 8) - Reviews and free download at softlookup.com

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Description: ACCU-READING (Skill levels 5 to 8) is a multiple-choice program that promotes mastery of accurate reading.

Diagnostic tests determine the your reading skills and direct you to the appropriate lesson.

The program displays a sentence or paragraph with a highlighted word, the question which asks the meaning of the word, and multiple-choice answers.

You are directed to a higher/lower level based on your score.

Includes skill levels for U.S. grades 5 to 8.

Exercises are provided for various reading skills within different levels of difficulty.

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Section II: TASP SKILLS

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The TASP skills serve as the basis of the program and the test.

The purpose of the test, which was developed to support the goals of the Texas Academic Skills Program, is to assess the reading, mathematics, and writing skills first year students should have if they are to perform effectively in undergraduate certificate or degree programs in Texas public colleges and universities.

This skill includes using the context of a passage to determine the meaning of words with multiple meanings, unfamiliar and uncommon words and phrases, and figurative expressions.

Following are some worksheets that you may wish to use in order to map out which courses at your institution cover which TASP skills.

Reading Skills Assessment

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In response to these laws that forced seated black passengers to give up their seats and stand so that newly arriving white passengers might sit, Montgomery's black citizens began a boycott of the city buses that lit fires of civil resistance throughout the South.

Professor Nottebohm of Rockefeller University has discovered centers in the left hemisphere of canary brains that are responsible for the development of song.

Females, for example, are generally accepted as speaking earlier, learning foreign languages earlier and outperforming males in tests of verbal fluency.

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Headsprout - Phonics Based Online Reading Lessons.

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Reading Tips for Parents

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Each home should have a variety of reading materials--newspapers, magazines, novels, brochures, catalogs, instruction manuals.

Let your child bring a friend along to the library.

Visit bookstores when you are out shopping.

Let your childselect an appropriate book based on his/her interests and lexile level.

Go and see it together and compare the book and the movie.

If something on television, in a magazine article, or in a conversation interests your child, help him/her research it on the Internet or explore the reference area in a local library.

Tell make-believe and true stories that interest your child.

Encourage your child to write--e-mails, pen pals, journals.

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