Do you have suggestions for lesson plans to teach remedial reading?
The following article describes the nine elements of effective reading instruction. You may find it useful to develop your lesson plans from these elements:
The majority of students who struggle with reading have difficulty with phonics and decoding, so you will want to be particularly mindful that your students are getting direct, explicit, and consistent instruction in this area. These articles provide suggestions for differentiating instruction to accommodate students who are struggling with reading:
- Differentiated Classroom Structures for Literacy Instruction
- Children with Reading Disability
- Phonics and Word Recognition Instruction in Early Reading Programs: Guidelines for Accessibility
The following articles suggest activities and teaching strategies:
- Children with LD as Emergent Readers: Bridging the Gap to Conventional Reading
- Phonemic Awareness in Young Children
- Tuning In to the Sounds in Words
- Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness for Students with Learning Disabilities
- Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guidelines
- How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities for Collaborative Classrooms
- ABCs of Phonemic Awareness
- Learning to Read, Reading to Learn
You may also find it helpful to post your question to other teachers as well as reading specialists on the LD OnLine online forums.