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.

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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