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From: Christina Drakos <christinad_at_thelittleschool.org>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:59:36 -0800
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I think everyone loses out when we carve boundaries too deep between classroom teachers, reading specialists, librarians and parents. They're al l playing crucial roles in the development of a reader with reading challenge s (whether it's called a disability, dyslexia, or something else).
ALL of them should be knowledgeable enough to be sensitive to the social an d emotional needs of these students, to provide a range of literature to suit that child's current reading potential, and to be informed of best practice s and effective interventions (although the reading specialist and classroom teacher would put these into practice more than the librarian).
I'm not sure which situation would be worse - the reading specialist who works at the specific skill level (let's say decoding) and provides appropriate reading text for that, but doesn't offer books that meets all the other needs of a real, live, breathing, multi-faceted reader (including audiobooks); OR a librarian that is unaware of a child's reading challenges and continues to send a student home with books the child simply cannot access (but might be consistently choosing in order to impress friends).
I'm all for much more communication and collaboration between classroom teachers, reading specialists and librarians, and think there's room for improvement in that area!
Christina
From: Claudia Pearson Reply-To: Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:31:40 -0600 To: Meghan McCarthy ,
Subject: Re:
Trying to define "reluctant readers"
IMO, it is not the role of the librarian to help a reader who has a reading disability. That is the job of the parents and reading specialists who are trained to help these potential readers develop coping strategies.
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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:59:36 -0800
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I think everyone loses out when we carve boundaries too deep between classroom teachers, reading specialists, librarians and parents. They're al l playing crucial roles in the development of a reader with reading challenge s (whether it's called a disability, dyslexia, or something else).
ALL of them should be knowledgeable enough to be sensitive to the social an d emotional needs of these students, to provide a range of literature to suit that child's current reading potential, and to be informed of best practice s and effective interventions (although the reading specialist and classroom teacher would put these into practice more than the librarian).
I'm not sure which situation would be worse - the reading specialist who works at the specific skill level (let's say decoding) and provides appropriate reading text for that, but doesn't offer books that meets all the other needs of a real, live, breathing, multi-faceted reader (including audiobooks); OR a librarian that is unaware of a child's reading challenges and continues to send a student home with books the child simply cannot access (but might be consistently choosing in order to impress friends).
I'm all for much more communication and collaboration between classroom teachers, reading specialists and librarians, and think there's room for improvement in that area!
Christina
From: Claudia Pearson Reply-To: Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:31:40 -0600 To: Meghan McCarthy ,
Subject: Re:
Trying to define "reluctant readers"
IMO, it is not the role of the librarian to help a reader who has a reading disability. That is the job of the parents and reading specialists who are trained to help these potential readers develop coping strategies.
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