Secondary Phase for Right Brain Readers
As students make growth and progress with this method, you will find that you will need to make adaptations to the teaching sequence.
Students can learn the words more quickly than in the beginning and don’t always need the three repetitions to learn the words.
Don’t remain doing three stages of the teaching phases if they don’t need that much repetition. Once they are used to accessing their right hemisphere, they typically can read and learn the work with less rehearsal. Honour this by having them do less repetition.
As students are progressing quickly in their reading ability, you change how you teach them new words. As they talk about their topic, you record those sentences directly on the sentence template.
Read the sentences back to the student to ensure that you have captured what they want to say.
There a few different ways to work at this level, each with increasing difficulty.
Write all of the topic words on word cards (you might have up to 30), show the student the words and have them read them to you. The ones they know are put into one pile. The ones that they don’t know will be the ones that you will teach them using the ‘match, select, read’ process.
Ensure that they talk about each word, activating their right hemisphere with that word
They can do a quick sketch of each word they don’t know, once you have done the match, select, read process.
Read over the sentences to themselves, putting their finger on words that they don’t know. The instructor will record those words on the grid template (you can write more than one word in each square) and teach them using an adapted ‘match, select, read’ process.
Ensure that they talk about each word, activating their right hemisphere with that word
They can do a quick sketch of each word they don’t know, once you have done the match, select, read process.
Students working at this secondary phase can often make their own books independently.
They can use speech to text technology as they build their books, after having scaffolded support in the initial phase while building their books. There are a variety of options available to build books: Publisher, Powerpoint, BookCreator.
Here is an example of the Secondary phase of the book. For more information on how to facilitate this learning, please contact me to set up an appointment or workshop presentation.
