Hi everyone!
I’m desperately looking for a good substance-filled reading software program for one of my students to use over the summer. Her mother cannot afford an expensive program and asked me to look into Earobics. Although I do think the skills practiced on this program will help her greatly I also think the program will not hold her interest for very long. The student is a 4th grade girl who reads well/almost at level, but who struggles with comprehension. She also also being tested in the next few weeks for a central processing disorder…she is actually the only student in my resource room who does not have a learning disability, but who desperately needs the extra support of the small classroom.
Anyways, if any of you know of a program that will help this girl and her mother out I will greatly appreciate it!!!
Thanks in advance!
Christie
Re: Suggestions for reading software needed...please!
I’d be curious about the nature of her comprehension problems — some LDs (especially in girls!!!!) are subtle. I know I mistakenly thought a student or two really didn’t have an LD — but it wasn’t so. There were real processing issues. Girls often have language strengths that can utterly overshadow great gaping weaknesses… they know how to put words to gether that sound coherent and make verbal sense… but they’re not comprehending. Visualizing and Verbalizing can be good for these folks but often there are also gaps in logic & inferential thinking.
And… comprehension really isn’t something that software teaches : - (
Though, perhaps, some of the things from Critical Thinking Skills would be helpful — though I have heard that their books are better than the software. Learning analytical thinking coudl help deal with what’s at the basis of those comprehension issues (and would keep her from being a walking stereotype of a blonde!)
http://www.criticalthinking.com is the place — oh, and try Voyage of the Zoombinis!
Christie,
It’s usulaly best to post these kinds of questions on just one board, for future reference. But on the Teaching reading board, I asked you to list some of her test scores. So check over there and maybe we can give you some help.
Janis