I need help with teaching reading...?

Question

I transferred (Language Arts teacher) from a big school (1200 -1400 students) to a rural one with three dozen students. Among them are three students with special needs who have been placed in a 'special' program - which I am expected to write and supervise. I teach them once a week on a Friday; and I have missed two consecutive classes because of a holiday and special school activity. I am going to miss their class again because of a conference and Mid-term Break.Where I live , there are no malls, big stores etc. so I cannot run out and buy items. Is there anyone who knows about a reading program that will motivate three 15-17 yr olds to read and at the same time equip them to survive in the real world. I can modify if I get a jumpstart as I write my own material at times. However, I have just moved here and I cannot access my computer because I have lost some cables. I am using the computer at school. Any help you can give is better than no help at all.

Answer 1

Students something is not skill of reading or hate to read. Some of them is audio, some of them is vision. It is difficult to tell a audio student to read himself. To life up his mind to read will be something he interested. Understand more comunication will understand how to comunicate with them. Teaching is not one way. Teaching is both way. You teaching him at the same time he is teaching you how to be a good teacher.

Answer 2

It is hard to answer your question without first knowing what reading level the students are on. But, to truly motivate them to learn, you'll have to either find out their personal interests and bring in reading material to suit, OR show them what can happen if they don't understand the fine print in a real world setting. To start off, if you can, get yourself a reading book that is closest to their reading levels. Give them as many incentives to read as possible. Since you are only seeing them less than once a week, talk to their other teachers, give the other teachers stickers or tickets. Every time the students are reading during free time they should get one. (You may not be able to get all of the teachers to go along, but a few will help). Next talk to the parents and make up a reading chart. Make sure they are reading at least 15-30 minutes a night. Let the student pick out what they want to read. Since the students are arround driving age, you could also have them read the driving manual with you. Otherwise, check out the McGraw-Hill website. They have a few programs that guarentee multiple year reading growth in one year. And they are designed for older students.

Answer 3

I am not sure about any reading programs that will help you, as i am not a teacher myself however i am a literature student. If they have learning difficulties, i am assuming these are wide ranging - perhaps with concentration, behavioural etc.Perhaps you could motivate them with something quite moving and perhaps if they are autistic a Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime would be a good text, i am not sure if it is overly simple, but perhaps they could identify with the child in the text, who actually has aspergers? Or perhaps another text which is fairly simple but still has a good storyline .... ? I am not sure what level of learning the students are at so its hard to be specific, hope this helps.