December 19, 2012

Motivational Strategies for Students

I teach 6th and 7th grade students that are receiving special edcuation services to strengthen their processing deficits. The stage of development are between 2nd grade and 4th grade comprehension. My students are in Read 180 which is a program to help them with reading and written expressions. My students struggle with phonological sounds and wrting a paragraph to include important details. They have computer time to develop languate skills and small group and whole group activities to complete workbook and independent reading and quick writes to help with comprehension and then they take a test on the bok they have read. It is a struggle for them to perfrom in a general education classroom. I have to read alud to my students during testing because of their reading skills and processing deficits.

The survey was given to students that I serve becasue they are at different levels in reading comprehension. They like to read books for fun. Fantasy and comic books is what I mostly see the boys read. The girls like fantasy and books that relate to personal experiences. They read a book when their peers suggest the book was good and somtimes they just happen to see or hear about a good book from previous history. They are required to read in the Read 180 class and somtimes it take them 1-2 days to complete 30 minutes of reading. They may read one book in a week it varies  on the studnet comprehenson and reading skills. The students like to read in a comfortable chair in the room. The students like when I read aloud horror stroies or short novels that are easy for them to discuss and comprehend. Most to the students set a goal to themselves to read more books and improve their reading.