These are two effective mindmapping softwares that could be used by reluctant writers to demonstrate their understanding of concepts and relationships. As well, they could be used by teachers as an instructional strategy to visually illustrate the relationship between items or concepts to students who are reluctant readers or have reading learning disabilities.
Kidspiration - Intro
Teaching IS brain surgery. What other profession requires you to dissect or diagnose the neural processes involved in how a student learns as education requires of teachers. To be successful, teachers are required to get to know their students and diagnose how they learn best. And then, adapt their instructional strategies to better suit their students. Diagnosing how another person's brain works is like conducting brain surgery.
As David Sousa asserts in his book chapter on reading disabilities, reading is probably the most cognitively challenging task that we can ask a young child to do. By viewing a task analysis flowchart for the reading process one can't help but be
struck by the complexities and intricacies of the cognitive skills
involved in reading print.
A structured reading program like Reading Recovery involves phonemic awareness, identifying first letters, similar word recognition, printing the words, letter order, identifying high frequency words, directionality, etc. One recognizes the need for phonemic awareness and more phonological-orthographical practice in all grades, by both classroom teachers when they introduce new vocabulary words and concepts, for example in science or social studies class, and by Resource/ Learning Centre teachers alike.
Both Kidspiration and Inspiration software are great graphic organizers and tools for students to be able to use to demonstrate their understanding of the relationship between concepts, ideas, events, objects, etc. across the curriculum in any grade.
Reading Task Analysis 1
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