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Dr. Sharon Vaughn Describes Reading Interventions for Secondary Students
Reading researcher, Sharon Vaughn, describes the components of effective interventions for struggling adolescent readers.
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Dr. Sharon Vaughn Describes Her Findings Related to Reading Interventions with Secondary Students
Reading researcher, Sharon Vaughn, discusses struggling adolescent readers’ motivation to read and progress within interventions.
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Comprehension: Activating Background Knowledge
Lesson teaching students to preview a text before reading. Includes making predictions and connecting to background knowledge.
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Fluency: Chunking Text Effectively
Lesson teaching students to use effective phrasing, or chunking, as they read. Also provides an example of how to adapt this lesson to meet specific students' needs.
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Fluency: Chunking Text Effectively (Adapted)
Lesson teaching students to use effective phrasing, or chunking, as they read.
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Comprehension: Mental Imagery Lesson
Lesson teaching students to visualize, or create mental images, while they read. Provides an example "Mental Imagery Log" for teachers to use.
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Comprehension: Check the Main Idea
Lesson teaching a specific strategy for identifying main ideas in a text.
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Phonological Awareness: Finger Phonemes
Phonemic awareness lesson teaching students to use their fingers to represent individual sounds as they segment words.
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