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Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)

Question 1: I believe it is important to discuss the content of the text because it will help the students remember the story better by remembering what they discussed. Since these students are younger they might not know what a hermit crab is, where it lives, and who eats the hermit crab. Each time the teacher changes pages she asks about four to five questions that can be covered.

Question 2: When the students are engaged in learning activities while reading this can be as simple as having them answer a few questions while reading or filling out a graphic organizer at the end of the story covering different areas depending on age and type of book. Teachers need to make sure students are understanding what they are reading, some students will act like they are reading but really they aren't because they are stumbling and having problems. If the teacher is to give this student a test and fails on answering the questions it just shows he/she isn't understanding what is being read and needs help.

Question 3: Having the teacher sounding out the beginning of the word helps the student with learning to spell out words. The teacher is having the students practice making the sound but also writing out the word. I like how the teacher goes what follows the word, space, and all the students shout it out. The teacher made the comment during the video that the students write all their letters capital and so she is also helping them reinforcing that they need to use lower-case. The students are learning how to write basic sentences. I enjoyed this video for the way she was teaching the students.

Question 4:The teacher is having the student go through the steps that she used to figure out what the word was and using the sounds. She then asks her what the word would be if she removed the -ed. The teacher is also helping with comprehension by having the student look at the pictures in the book along with the reading.

Question 5:The phonemic awareness activity is very helpful with getting the students listening and thinking about the sounds the letters make. In order for this activity to work the students need to listen for word patterns and also for the beginning, middle, and end of the word and what each part sounds like. The students need to know what each letter sounds like in order to decode words.

Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)