Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling

描述（由申请人提供）：语言要素教学阅读和拼写（LETRS）项目的主要目标是开发和提供给教育工作者，在一个容易获得和成本效益的方式，基于研究的知识，方法和良好的做法，为补救和教学阅读，写作和拼写的儿童和青少年学习障碍和语言延迟。最终产品将是一系列交互式多媒体培训单元，有效地将传统专业发展方法与新兴信息技术结合起来。 在第一阶段，我们确定并划分为逻辑顺序模块，阅读发展和语言结构的研究为基础的知识，以及良好的教学实践;我们确定了最强大的技术和媒体提供识字干预的内容和方法;我们综合信息设计LETRS，并制作了一个原型培训模块在音素意识;最后，我们证明了教师对语音意识教学方法的学习与基于CD的教学和面对面教学一样好，但是教师的最佳经验组合包括基于CD的教学和主持人。 在第二阶段，我们会根据第一阶段所收集的数据，修订和完善土地注册处的设计蓝图。利用第一阶段的开发程序和软件模板，将制作LETRS课程的七个学习单元，包括互动式多媒体光盘、互联网通信技术、辅导课程和其他培训材料，包括学习指南和案例研究材料。课程效能将在课堂和非课堂上通过评估教师的知识和课堂行为以及学生的表现来测试。主要目标市场包括各级教师、阅读专家、言语/语言协调员和治疗师、特殊教育工作者和ELL/ESL专家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling (LETRS) project is to develop and deliver to educators, in a readily accessible and cost effective manner, research-based knowledge, methods, and sound practices for remediating and teaching reading, writing, and spelling to children and adolescents with learning disabilities and language delays. The end product will be a series of interactive, multi-media training modules that will effectively marry the best of traditional professional development methods with new and emerging information technologies. In Phase I, we identified and divided into logical sequential modules, research-based knowledge of reading development and language structure as well as sound instructional practices; we identified the strongest technologies and media for delivering the literacy intervention content and methods; we synthesized the information to design LETRS and produced a prototype training module in phonemic awareness; lastly, we proved that teachers' learning of instructional methods for phonological awareness was as good with CD-based instruction as it was with in-person instruction, but that the best combination of experiences for teachers included CD-based instruction and a facilitator. In Phase II, the LETRS design blueprint will be revised and refined reflective of the data gathered in Phase I. Using the development processes and software templates created in Phase I, seven of the learning modules for the LETRS course, to include the interactive, multimedia CD-ROMs, Internet communication technologies, facilitated sessions, and other training materials including study guides and case study materials, will be produced. The course efficacy will be tested in classroom and non-classroom by assessing teacher knowledge and classroom behaviors, and their students' performance. The primary target market includes classroom teachers at every level, reading specialists, speech/language coordinators and therapists, special education staff, and ELL/ESL specialists.