Tape Recorders, Fry's Word List, Repeated Reading

Currently, Coleman has the most problems still with words that do not phonetically make sense.

A friend and professor at UWG writes,
"Most words which do not "follow the norm" need to be learned as sight words. Just like the multiplication tables, simple repetition often works best if done in a format halfway interesting to the reader. Remember that the 300 most used words in English make up roughly 67% of ALL written text!"

(Here's a list of those 300 words plus the next 300 most widely used words, known as Fry's Word List:
http://www.uen.org/k-2educator/word_lists.shtml . Also included at bottom, are a list of 220 words, prepared by E.W. Dolch, generally make up from 50 to 75 percent of the reading material encountered by students. )

Does Coleman get to hear himself read? He should practice a short passage (200 wd. max.) until he's reading at 100 wpm min. WITH fluency and some expression. Keep at the same passage until he's proficient at this using a tape recorded and a passage just below his reading level. (See: S. J. Samuels' Repeated Reading Procedure in The Reading Teacher journal) It works wonders."

I could not find Samuel's article freely available - but I did find this article reviewing his technique and variations: http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratfluency.html

Strategies for Helping Dyslexics - 5 articles

Listed here are 5 articles Sandy Crux has written based on a textbook she had published in the early 1990’s entitled Learning Strategies: Compensations for Learning Disabilities. The strategies and technical aids are meant to help children, youth and adults succeed in school or work situations by accommodating or compensating for reading, studying, memory and organizing difficulties. Something has simple as having a child tape record themselves reading is one example of a suggestion.

see http://crux-of-the-matter.com/strategies/

Remedial Instruction Rewires Dyslexic Brains, Provides Lasting Results, Study Shows

Science Daily News often reports studies on dyslexia - see this one report from 2008: Remedial Instruction Rewires Dyslexic Brains, Provides Lasting Results, Study Shows -
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080805124056.htm
and this one - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611103900.htm

THIS one shows/ discusses the Davis Dyslexia method of using clay to model words, thought it does not specifically attribute the method to Davis. In the video, do you see how the student uses the clay? This is exactly what they had Coleman do... it's the kind of thing/ approach that helped Coleman retain the sounds/ meanings/ spelling of words that we reviewed. Read and see the video here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0505-learn_to_read_through_sound.htm