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=Welcome to READY! SET! READ!= =Embracing Inclusive Practices for Children and Youth with Special Needs= Riga, Latvia, 11-14 July 2010

= Ready! Set! Read! Strategies for teaching reading to struggling students agenda: Practical classroom applications = Harriet Sandberg, Ed.D. Harriet.Sandberg@asu.edu Andrea Tovar, Ed.D. andies@asu.edu Kathleen Puckett, Ph.D. kathleen.puckett@asu.edu Presented on 12 July 2010

PowerPoint Dissertations
Harriet Sandberg, Ed.D. Andrea Tovar, Ed.D.

Alphabet Disco-opening music and movement activity
Start and end with music and movement activities to energize your students and get the mind and body working  together, which helps both sides of the brain to work together and retain information.

Say –it fast and Break –it down
Use words with two, three and four phonemes, depending on child’s ability level, then challenge them. Supports the ability for students to hear the sounds in words, and take words apart and put them back together again.

**//Get Moving! The Effect of Music and Movement on Student Attention and Engagement//** Highlights from a di sseration study by Harriet Sandberg, Ed.D.

**Count the sounds and print**
This strategy allows the students to see and apply the connection between sound and letters necessary for reading. Teachers working with young readers should make explicit connections between sounds and letters by drawing attention to sounds by saying and printing letters simultaneously.

//mTechnology: A Teacher Tool for Growing a Community of Practice within an Emerging and Responsive Data-driven Process//
Highlights from a dissertation study by Andrea Tovar, Ed.D.

**Ready to Read**- **closing** **music and movement activity** A music and movement activity to transition from one activity to the next to re-energized the class and get them  ready to read and rock on.

**__Videos__**
​Click on this link of video clips to access video clips of phonemic awareness and phonics activities featured in //**Ready! Set! Read!**//