In the Circle of Literacy Learning, reading comprehension activities enable a student to understand and discuss what they read. Discover setups can provide the learning scaffold to help students explore the meaning of print. Students with physical disabilities and significant developmental challenges need a method to read and manipulate books. Discover setups can provide talking books on the computer. Participants will learn how to create talking books for emerging readers to use for independent reading.
Setups can provide the alphabet and word banks to support student in writing activities.
Setups can also provide scaffolds for the writing process. Participants will create on screen scaffold setups for students to use while they write with the keyboard. This intervention is especially powerful for students with learning disabilities. Students can learn to manipulate the sounds in words in a variety of word study setups. Participants will learn how to make setups to practice onsets and rimes, making words, rhyming words and more On screen and scanning setups can be dynamically linked to step students through activities and provide good instructional feedback. .