Supporting Diverse Readers in Reading and Writing

​Supporting Diverse Readers in Reading and Writing

By Shelley Murphy

​Shift in middle school brings general decline in academic performance, confidence, and motivation

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Challenge for all student, but particularly for those with ADHD​

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ADHD Impacts Exectuive Functioning

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Executive Function is the ability to:

1. ​Regulate Attention

2. ​Prioritize Organization

3. Regulate behaviours, emotions, and actions

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Multiple Select

What are features of executive functioning?

• Regulates attention

• Prioritizing organization

• Regulating behaviours, emotions, and actions

• Important for muscle development

• Regulates peripheral vision

Executive Functioning REgulating learning process

• intitiating

• planning

• goal setting

• staying on task

• self-monitoring​

• managing time​

Challenges in relation to Writing Include:

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1. How to organize and structure

2. Fine motor skills (handwriting + Typing)

3. Written explanations are harder to understand than oral​

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Challenges in relation to Reading Include

1. Reading Comprehension​

Multiple Choice

Executive function DOES NOT help regulate this learning process:

• Managing Time

• Goal-setting

• Information Processing

• Staying on task

Let's do Some Reading and Writing Activies Together with.....

POETRY!​