Part I. Introduction: Starting points and background knowledge.

This is an activity for all teaching staff. The following questions will be placed in a basket. Each teacher will draw one or more question(s) from the basket to answer from his/her personal experience. Discussion may follow as appropriate as teachers bring to light things they already know and things they want to learn about the day’s objectives.

Questions:

1. Describe a time you felt uncomfortable with your class because of a reading issue (or issues) within the class.

2. Name an activity you used in your class for reading that used more than the sense of sight.

3. Describe a student you’ve had who seemed to learn differently from other students.

4. What do you think of when you hear the word dyslexia?

5. What are some methods you use in the classroom to determine reading level?

6. What does the word “fluency” mean to you?

7. Give an example of in informal assessment you have used that was good.

8. Give an example of something you’ve done in the classroom that was not helpful, or that was confusing to the students.

9. What’s one method you use to get all of your students to read?

10. How do you make the classroom environment comfortable when you have students on different levels in the same class?