Colloquium Class: Video Analysis

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During the Colloquium class, we watched a very interesting video about Dyslexia. Also, we went over the Observing the Classroom Practice where Chantell Berrett expressed her experiences. She had with her son, she noticed that her son reading level was lower than her daughter, she said that the same job she did with her daughter, she did with her son. She said that what she saw in her son, this is what we need to do with our students. As well, she said to be able to help them is to motive them, because students with dyslexia are intelligent but they will need more work, and to be consistent with them, that what you stated you need to continued. Indeed, when we teach them, we need to remember this step, say the word, write the word and make

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