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Subject: A Multi-sensory Approach Author: Ms. Isamari Cruz [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 17:05:31 09/02/11 Fri I just want to share my experience with you! A Multi-sensory Approach VL is at Third grade, but her reading level was two years below her real age (8). Her regular teacher, asked me to help VL in her reading process. VL is a happy and lovely student, but she could be looking to a word for a long period of time without being able to read it aloud. During our conversations I noticed that she loves ballet. This gave me a little idea: Could she be able to use her body and her ballet knowledge to discriminate the b from the d ? Also, she loves to have physical contact with others; it is the kind of girl that like to walk holding hands with her teachers or her friends. This gave me another little idea: Could her hands being like a recorder? Could her brain connect better with words if she uses her hands to identify letters? After connecting all this ideas, I created a teaching plan and it worked. Her regular teacher told me that she is doing better and her mother is incorporating at home some of the exercises. The first exercise was helping VL discriminate b from d, and we did it dancing ballet. Using some arms and hands positions while repeating the letters, VL was able to remember the letters and its sounds. Later we added some words beginning with those letters and she had to perform the dance. (For example, left arm extended upward like trying to reach the ceiling then the right arm forms an arc. Together they will look like a b.) At the end of each session, we wrote the words on the palm of our hands. First, I wrote the words on her palms and them she wrote them on mine. After two weeks, VL was recognizing the b and d, and reading faster the words beginning with those letters. We will continue with p and q. I think that I will be including sandpaper for future sessions since not all the letters could be represented using dancing steps and also it is a way of expanding the multi-sensory approach. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]