The right to read and the responsibility to teach Dr. R Lyon

The school and the teacher makes the difference

Mytylschool De Regenboog

Sonja Slotema Snijders 10 oktober 2011

• SCHOOL FOR DISABLED CHILDREN

• 120 PUPILS

• 2 STREAMS

• 4 -13 YEAR PHYSICAL DISABILITY

• 4 -20 YEAR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL

• 75 EMPLOYEES

Rainbow Eleven:

• We set high standards for children

• We offer a broad curriculum in a continuous line

• We set goals and formulate expectations

• We use time efficiently

• We challenge the children in an attractive learning environment

• We know the pupils and follow their development closely

• We encourage independence in knowledge, skills, commun. and mobility

• We provide a comfortable environment

• We measure learning results

• We communicate respectfully

• We are jointly responsible for this to be succesfull

Priority number one is learn to read well

• Learning to read is not natural or easy for

most children

• Reading is an aquired skill

• Certain skills are not well developed

• Additional instruction support, special

materials

Dutch Education System

Special Education

Cluster 1: visually impaired Cluster 2: hearing impairments and speech /

language problems Cluster 3: physical disabilities, physical and intellectual

disabilities (Mytyl), students who are chronically ill (LZ) and students with epilepsy

Cluster 4: behavioral problems –

disorders such as autism

“disabled children have the right to participate in the same kind of leisure activities

as their non-disabled peers”

Experience with

• Sports: swimming by the Halliwick method in our special school-swimming poole , gymnastic, special clinics, fitness, the Cruyff-court on the play ground, horseriding

• Music: music therapie by a specialized teacher

• Nature: schoolgarden with vegetables

• Art: Painting – collages

Communication

• Training by speech therapists – sign language

• New ICT resources for individual children

• Educational software for expanding vocabulary, reading skills, numeracy

• Datacare is a student tracking system for better communication with parents

Sports

Cruyffcourt

Experience with Music:

Naturegardening in the schoolgarden

Art painting – collages – etc.

Communication:

Priority number one is learn to read well

• Learning to read is not natural or easy for

most children

• Reading is an aquired skill

• Certain skills are not well developed

• Additional instruction support, special

materials

Reading Reading ComprehensionComprehensionKnowledgeKnowledge FluencyFluency

MetacognitionMetacognition

LanguageLanguage

Prosody

Automaticity / Rate

Accuracy

Decoding

Phonemic Awareness

Oral Language Skills

Knowledge of Language Structures

Vocabulary

Cultural Influences

Life Experience

Content Knowledge

Activation of Prior Knowledge

Knowledge about Texts

Motivation

Engagement

Active Reading Strategies

Monitoring Strategies

Fix-Up Strategies

Florida Reading Initiative

early reading related skills

reading with

a cabinet

Special reading program:RALFI

• R = repeated

• A = assisted

• L = level

• F = feedback

• I = instruction and interaction

Public Library of Haarlem for schools

For primary education, the Library and Library School Year Program:

Library visits, reading promotion projects, volunteers read stories

Collaboration with the library

Expertise

Easy to read square

Bookboxes with themes

Library in the Rainbowschool

learn to read well is a humanright Dr. R. Lyon

Impression of the Rainbowschool