WS children should not be given a lot of exercises to do with pen and paper. Reduce the demand of pen and paper for the WS child!
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Kids who struggle with hand strength may have difficulty with grasping a pencil, learning to use scissors, and managing clothing fasteners. They are also likely to struggle with handwriting and other classroom skills.
There are tons of creative and playful activities for kids that can target hand strength.
Kids who struggle with hand strength may have difficulty with grasping a pencil, learning to use scissors, and managing clothing fasteners. They are also likely to struggle with handwriting and other classroom skills.
There are tons of creative and playful activities for kids that can target hand strength.
Strategic Plan For the Development of Writing with WS children:
Pre-Writing Skills Develop fine motor skills. Use materials that were used in the past in what is known as the Montessori teaching method to develop fine motor skills. These exercises include learning to button, tracing with finger in sand boxes, and cutting with scissors. |
Develop proper upright posture with the child this is a necessity for the beginning of good writing skills. As with any other child show him how to hold the pencil. The pencil should be placed between the middle finger and the thumb, with the index finger riding the pencil.
Learning to write by traction and kinesthesis. This method would be good for the child because it utilizes visual stimulation. Steps: Draw a vertical line slowly on the board or on a piece of paper the child must be able to follow the pattern while you draw it. Repeat the same procedure. Take the child’s finger and trace the vertical line. The child’s eyes must be closed. Let the child draw the figure on a piece of paper, again with eyes closed. Last step, ask the child to draw the figure with his eyes open. Repeat this procedure with other directions for example horizontal lines. Eventually proceed in writing letters words and numbers. Once the child develops good fine motor skills they would enjoy writing. Remember whether it is reading or writing, break exercises into small periods. We do not want the child to become exhausted due to pre-existing medical conditions. |
Rationale:
- Children with WS should be taught to read using phonics methods, as other forms of reading instruction are not successful (Morris, 2010).
The Orton-Gillingham approach for teaching reading was developed in the 1930s by Samuel Orton, a neurologist, and Anna Gillingham, a psychologist, to teach reading to students with dyslexia.
Although this approach was developed for the dyslexic child, over the years it has been used with all different populations of children. All students can benefit from multisensory learning, not just special education students. It is an intensive, sequential phonics-based system that teaches the basics of word formation before whole meanings. Every child processes information differently, and this teaching method allows for each child to use a variety of their senses to understand and process information. Teacher's that provide classroom activities that utilize various senses, will notice that their students learning attention will increase, and it will make for an optimal learning environment. |
There are many phonics programs which use the Orton-Gillingham Aprroach.
RLAC - Reading & Language Arts Centers, Inc.
Based on the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading, Phonics First™ is an accredited multisensory, systematic, flexible, and evidence-based program. |
EPS provides an ungraded, multisensory curriculum that teaches phonics and the structure of language at both the elementary and secondary levels. Using the Orton-Gillingham approach, it teaches handwriting, spelling, reading, reading comprehension and oral and written expression.
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Think Ready Read
An Orton-Gillingham based education blog which shares multisensory teaching strategies, information and ideas for teaching reading. |
This pack is FULL of great phonics activities for your class!
This set of interactive notebook activities fills 95 notebook pages in all!! These activities are perfect for beginning readers in pre-K and K, readers in grade 1, and struggling readers in grade 2. |
- Choose two consonants that look different and sounds different. /r/ /s/ good choices.
- Do not introduce vowels, as each vowel has a long and short sound. When you eventually introduce the vowels teach only one sound, the short sound preferably.
- Write the letters in lower case on a piece of paper two to three inches in height.
- “JOHN these are two letters of the alphabet.”
- Show him one of the letters and tell him the sound of the letter.
- After he says the sound, ask him to give some words beginning with that particular sound.
- Proceed with the other letter in the same manner.
- Hold up the two letters and ask him, “John which letter sounds ‘r’,” When he points to the letter, you then tell him the name of the letter. “Great this letter sounds ‘r’ this is the letter /r/.
Cox, J. (2015). Multisensory Teaching Method to Reading. About.com Education. Retrieved 29 July 2015, from http://k6educators.about.com/od/ReadingStrategies/qt/Multisensory-Teaching-Method-To-Reading.htm
Morris, C. (2010). Introduction: Williams syndrome. Am. J. Med. Genet., 154C(2), 203-208. doi:10.1002/ajmg.c.30266
Morris, C. (2010). Introduction: Williams syndrome. Am. J. Med. Genet., 154C(2), 203-208. doi:10.1002/ajmg.c.30266
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