Sara Hines 'Name That Word'

In “Name That Word: Using Song Lyrics to Improve the Decoding Skills of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities”, Sara Hines talks about how many students with learning disabilities and students who don’t always have mastered reading skills needed for their grade levels and future grades. Also, Hines talks about how students who have trouble reading will have trouble in different areas in their life. They will have a difficult time doing homework, keeping a job, and maybe even dropping out of school. Most students that have a difficult reading when their older is because they weren’t given the time or were taught those decoding and phonemic awareness skills when they were older. Since some students think they can’t read or keep failing at reading, they just don’t read at all anymore. So to get students with learning disabilities to start reading again is to relate reading to something that they enjoy doing, which is listening to music. Students are able to remember the lyrics to songs because of rhythms, patterns of the music. They did case studies with students and used multiple techniques to read the words of the lyrics to reading more words other than the ones in the song. In order to make sure this works, teachers need to make sure that the students like to listen to …show more content…
I would just be worried about it helping or not helping the student. I can see where it would help the student because it is relating to something the student likes outside of school. But I can also see where the students could get more frustrated with it maybe depending on the student. I did like how they provide a few different case studies to show the different strategies used for each student. Since, none of them were alike, so they had to have different techniques to help them to learn phonemic awareness. This would be a great way to try to help students who struggle with reading whether they have learning disabilities or

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