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Title: Reading and Writing with Struggling Readers A Vygotskian Approach


1
Reading and Writing with Struggling Readers A
Vygotskian Approach
  • Isabel Peters
  • De Activiteit
  • National Center for Developmental Education
  • Alkmaar, the Netherlands

2
Overview
  • Cultural-historical view on learning disabilities
  • Setup of the study
  • The approach to struggling readers
  • Conclusions

3
Cultural-historical view on learning disabilities
  • Coles (1987) schools can create learning
    disabilities
  • Vygotsky (1978) development is socially mediated
  • Peters Van Oers (2007) teachers adopt a
    different approach to children they consider to
    be at-risk

4
  • Vygotsky
  • Compensation, the individuals reaction to a
    defect, initiates new, roundabout developmental
    processes - it replaces, rebuilds a new
    structure, and stabilizes psychological
    functions. (1993, p.34)

5
Setup of the study
  • Research question
  • Does the strategy spelling (sounding out
    letters and blending them together) has a
    compensating function for struggling readers?

6
  • Series of case studies in two classrooms
  • (Yin, 1994)
  • 2 boys and 2 girls (6, 7 and 8 years old)
  • Design experiment (Cobb e.a., 2003)
  • cycles of invention and revision

7
Phase 1 reading a text
  • Teacher prepares children for reading
  • Children scan pages at new words
  • New words are discussed
  • Children read the page
  • Reading of the page is discussed

8
Phase 2 practicing new words
  • Underlined words are read, spelled aloud and
    written down
  • Visual analysis
  • Other exercises

9
Phase 3 writing a text
  • Children finish the story
  • Teacher helps to fabricate a story
  • Teacher assists in the writing activity
  • Children make their own book
  • Children present their book to other children in
    the classroom

10
Conclusions
  • Meaningful reading and writing activities
  • Observation of reading development
  • Action-oriented approach
  • Teacher offers those strategies that the child
    needs at a certain moment
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