Phonemic awareness

Unit Overview To begin, this unit will be planned for an inclusion Social Studies class, in a middle school seventh grade class. Students will be between the ages of eleven to fourteen. Children in this class have disabilities that range from emotional disturbances, Attention Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, and dyslexia. Students in have a variety of learning needs. As for reading levels most of the class is below grade level. One student is deemed illiterate, and half of the class is more than…

Throughout the coursework in my Master’s program, I learned many factors and considerations of reading. Most importantly, I learned that reading is so much more than simply decoding words. Reading requires the reader to use multiple strategies simultaneously in order to properly decode and comprehend. To an outsider, reading can seem to be a simple activity that most children learn from a young age. When I first began working with students who had difficulty reading, I was surprised by how many…

(1) information gathered annually to determine a schools adequate yearly progress, (2) allowing school districts to use up to 15% of special education funds to support general education, (3) methods for teaching reading should be composed of phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, reading fluency, vocabulary, and test comprehension, and (4) schools that do not reach the adequate yearly progress will be labeled as in need of improvement and be targeted for corrective action. The Individuals with…