Integration of Movement with Literacy Invervention: Outcomes of Three Children with Dyslexia
Location
CSU Ballroom
Start Date
11-4-2017 2:00 PM
End Date
11-4-2017 3:30 PM
Student's Major
Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services
Student's College
Allied Health and Nursing
Mentor's Name
Megan Mahowald
Mentor's Department
Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services
Mentor's College
Allied Health and Nursing
Description
Children with dyslexia or learning disabilities may have more difficulty attending to academic tasks. Three upper elementary aged participants with dyslexia (or suspected dyslexia) participated in literacy intervention over the course of seven months.This intervention sessions for literacy included activities in the Words Their Way program. Probe data collected included decoding of DIBELS passages and sentence imitation. The participants would read a passage for 1 minute, and write sentences after being presented to them vocally. . Intervention sessions also included some physical activity. Different activities incorporated were bowling, memorization running games, or tossing things into buckets. Participants completed pre/post testing across reading and writing skills and participated in probes consisting of decoding and sentence imitation. Overall, all participants increased on some literacy targets. The research findings suggest that physical movement increases productivity during literacy intervention sessions.
Integration of Movement with Literacy Invervention: Outcomes of Three Children with Dyslexia
CSU Ballroom
Children with dyslexia or learning disabilities may have more difficulty attending to academic tasks. Three upper elementary aged participants with dyslexia (or suspected dyslexia) participated in literacy intervention over the course of seven months.This intervention sessions for literacy included activities in the Words Their Way program. Probe data collected included decoding of DIBELS passages and sentence imitation. The participants would read a passage for 1 minute, and write sentences after being presented to them vocally. . Intervention sessions also included some physical activity. Different activities incorporated were bowling, memorization running games, or tossing things into buckets. Participants completed pre/post testing across reading and writing skills and participated in probes consisting of decoding and sentence imitation. Overall, all participants increased on some literacy targets. The research findings suggest that physical movement increases productivity during literacy intervention sessions.
Recommended Citation
Chelmo, Cortney and Erin Krenik. "Integration of Movement with Literacy Invervention: Outcomes of Three Children with Dyslexia." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 11, 2017.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2017/poster-session-B/1
