Initial Phase for Right Brain Reader

Start with one topic that the student has an interest in and chooses to talk about.

As the student talks about their interest, the instructor records high interest words that they will use to teach them how to read.

The instructor is recording highly visual and meaningful words – typically nouns and verbs – that are connected to their conversation on a recording sheet and then chooses four of those words to teach.

Those words are then used during the three teaching stages of word acquisition:

MATCHING

SELECTING

READING

The teaching sequence is simple and increases in cognitive complexity step by step with predictability.

Once the student has done all three stages of word acquisition, those same words are then used to make meaningful sentences. The word cards are arranged by the instructor to make simple sentences, with helper words written on cards as needed by the instructor.

Those sentences are then used to make a book, with the sentences the student has read successfully with the instructor. The individual words are also recorded in a table at the back of the book for more practice.

Here is an example of the Initial phase of the book.

For more information on how to facilitate this learning, please contact me to set up an appointment or workshop presentation.

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Activities during the Initial Phase

 Activities during the Initial Phase are critical for success.  There are certain activities that need to be completed, once the Three Stages of Word Acquisition are completed for each topic.

First activity after the three stages are completed include:

  • Building sentences

  • Writing the words and doing a quick sketch on a dry wipe board

Second stage of activities after the words and sentences are complete include:

  • Student reads the word cards individually

  • Student records one of their sentences and draws a picture to match on paper

  • Student reads the sentences from their topics

  • Student prints their topic words and the helper words on a dry wipe board and reads them back

  • Student writes each topic word and draws a quick sketch of each word on paper

  • Student records topic and helper words in alphabetical order on paper

Last stage of activities include:

  • Creating their own book, using technology.  Variety of programs and examples of them are provided here (Publisher, Word, Book Creator, etc.)

  • Print their book for them to read and to share with others

  • Count number of new words learned and record on graph

To keep track of these activities or to indicate which one the student is to work on, the Right Brain Reading Work Task Tracking sheet is helpful.

Click here to for more information on how to use this tracking sheet: Right Brain Reading Work Task Tracking sheet.