by Oran Tkatchov | Jun 6, 2022 | captioned video, Deaf, deaf culture, diversity, history, language, learning, SEL, Social-Emotional Learning, special education, Spoken Language
Through Deaf Eyes explores almost 200 years of Deaf life in America and presents a broad range of perspectives on what it means to be deaf. The film is propelled by the stories of people, both eminent and ordinary, and sheds light on events that have shaped Deaf...
by Oran Tkatchov | Mar 11, 2021 | ACVREP, assessment, Blind, captioned video, described, distance learning, parents, Spoken Language
DCMP is happy to announce the launch of a new workshop about audio description for the blind. The workshop was created in collaboration with Dicapta. There are two versions: Let’s Describe is in English and Describamos is in Spanish. This training is freely available...
by Oran Tkatchov | Nov 25, 2019 | assessment, Deaf, disabilties, EEI, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, Itinerant Teacher, language, learning, Literacy, LSL, pararpros, Reading, science, special education, Spoken Language, Strategies, Teach and Enrich, Teacher Leaders, teaching
This captioned webinar from the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) explains why retelling is an effective intervention for building comprehension and describes how to organize a classroom or itinerant setting to effectively use the...
by Oran Tkatchov | Nov 25, 2019 | AzMERIT, EEI, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, Itinerant Teacher, language, learning, Literacy, pararpros, Reading, Spoken Language, Standards, Strategies, Teach and Enrich, teaching, Writing
This report identifies writing practices found to be effective in helping students increase their reading skills and comprehension and also provides examples of what these writing practices can look like within a classroom. Click here to read the report.
by Oran Tkatchov | Oct 17, 2019 | Deaf, EEI, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, Itinerant Teacher, language, learning, Literacy, pararpros, Reading, Spoken Language, Standards, Strategies, Teacher Leaders, teaching
This document from the Florida Center for Reading Research contains six intervention activities for the literacy areas of text comprehension, text analysis and cause and effect. These would be appropriate for grades 2 or higher, and could be used as center activities...
by Oran Tkatchov | Oct 16, 2019 | AzMERIT, Deaf, Early Childhood, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, Itinerant Teacher, language, learning, Literacy, LSL, pararpros, Reading, Spoken Language, Strategies, Teacher Leaders, teaching
Sight Words Memory is the standard memory card game — sometimes called Concentration — with the additional element of having the student read or sign the word on each card as they turn it over. This provides a lot of opportunities for repetition in sight reading, word...
