Linda Mood Bell teaches visualization to learning disabled students.
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To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 3:04 PM
Subject: [MOSAIC] College Help
Hello list,
My son is 21 years old. He is a Junior in college and
I dont know what I would do without www.lauracandler.com This website has all
sorts of useful information for elementary school teachers in literacy and
beyond.
Carrie Davis
Third Grade Teacher
Buford Academy
Karen,
Has your son spoke with the Office of Disabilities at the college? They are
most helpful and can recommend avenues to pursue. If he has been legally
disagnosed as having a learning disability, he can receive services of OofD and
because of their efforts, his work can be modified and
Mary,
We are working with the Office of Disabilities at his College. He does
have a legal diagnosis and the college has acknowledged it. His professors
have allowed him more time to take tests. This has helped somewhat but
it's not solving the problem.
He doesn't have a learning
I don't know about the word abstract but the challenge has to be to
translate the abstract into concrete ideas and concepts he can
grasp. Writing (translating) is reading comprehension -- being able to
identify or reproduce information in some kind of identifiable terms for the
self and the exam.
Can you give me a short example of how you do this?
Do you write out your own definition of what you've read?
As far as rote memorization goes, that's how my son got through high
school. He has close to a photographic memory so he would memorize everything
for his tests. He wasn't
Hi Karen,
You wrote to Mary that: I'd really like to find a way to apply the Mosaic
of Thought techniques to his college textbooks somehow. That's one of the
things that scrolls and textmapping are particularly good for. They make
the content much more concrete (to William's point) and
I read your post a few days ago and decided not to reply, but after reading all
the replies I thought I might add another view. I recently graduated college,
after 8 years, and I saw myself in your post. College in general is a lot of
work, especially when you want to enjoy college and all it
Karen,
After you and he read the material, have you thought of using 4x6 cards and
asking him to draw what he comprehends? That might help him visualize what
he reads. Then, askiing him to describe the drawing in sentences and using
them to study from? Just another idea!
Good Luck.
Mary
Karen,
I don't know if this will help your son, but I work with middle school students
as a reading specialist to develop strategies for reading nonfiction. One such
strategy is to illustrate/sketch and label for visualization (and
internalization of content). While they read, they
Have you taught him how to use a concept map with the science/
history content? It might help him to connect the material.
Kim Conrad, DMS
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