Next year I am planning on teaching corrective reading 4 days a week. I need ideas of things I can do on the off day. I teach grades 6-8 special day class for students with LD. Obviously this is a reading skills class. Any ideas are welcome. Thank you.
Re: Curriculum Planning
I love your ideas. I am LD and teach as well. One way I learned how to read is with the closed captiion mode on the TV. It made practicing reading bareable. Where could I get Twilight Zones videos? Do you copy a lot of videos?
Your TRuly,
Sara
Re: Curriculum Planning
I buy more than I copy but copying would be the less expensive way to go. There’s a cable channel called The Sci Fi Channel that often shows old Twilight Zones. Usually you can buy the old Twilight Zones at amazon.com or yahoo. com or any other on-line shopping place but right now it’s gotten harder because they’re in transition between VHS and DVD. The somewhat cheaper VHS tapes are hard to find as they’ve discontinued manufacture and you need a DVD player to show the DVD versions.
You can still rent VHS versions from those rental places like West Coast Video that carry television shows as well as movies.
What about language enrichment activities? You could listen to music (with appropriate lyrics) and analyze the lyrics. You could watch some films. I just showed a part of Henry IVand a part of Hamlet with Mel Gibson. Carefully chosen scenes were a big hit with my middle schoolers and gave them a nice introduction to Shakespeare’s English.
I use old Twilight Zones television shows a lot too. We watch a part and then stop and discuss our various predictions and then watch the rest to see what happens and who’s right.