Help Needed!!!

[JBeard78]

I'm a new teacher at a Residential Psychiatric Treatment Facility. I have a number of students that have been instructed in the past in ED classrooms, but the school records are lagging and after two weeks I STILL have not received the IEP's from the students old schools.

Here's my real problem. I have 2 high school age students that are almost completely unable to read. I've started them out on the Dolch sight word list, but don't have any real resources available to me at this time for reading material.

Can any of you suggest some series or titles that could be used in this situation. These are teenage boys who are highly embarassed to be unable to read in a classroom with higher functioning students. I'm trying to find some resources that would allow them to work alongside their peers, and not be conspicuously reading out of the 1st grade reading book.

Thanks!

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Hi,

There are books that you should be able to borrow from your library they are called, "high interest, low reading level books." They are geared for older students who have a specific interest on a topic, but are not able to read that well. The print is bigger and there are less words on a page. I believe there are pictures as well. I hope this helps. Good luck!

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Hello! I am a secondary special ed. teacher who teaches English...I have reading levels from preK-9th grade. Remedia and PCI publications are two companies that offer great hi-interest low readibility books at reasonable prices. I am fortunate to have the Read 180 program in my classroom, but also supplement with materials from these two companies....keep us posted on how things are going.

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You might try a program from EPS called the Dyslexia Learning. If they have made it this far, there is a good chance they are severly language blocked and may need a mulitsensory program to help them learn to read. This is a very good and relatively easy to use program, (it tell you exactly what to do), that could really help them. I am an elementary special education teacher who works with both dyslexics and just plain ole' language blocked kiddos. I used both the dyslexia learning and the alphabet phonics programs from EPS and had good results. Alphabet Phonics you would need training in but the Dyslexia Learning, I think you could muddle through pretty easy. Hope that helps!