FY 2008 Annual Report of Achievements - Gallaudet University

Read It Again and Again
National mission priority area: Literacy
Principal Investigator(s):
Meynardie, Elizabeth
Other Investigator(s):
Berrigan, Dennis
Berrigan, Nancy
Jacobs, Lisa
Jeffries, Richard
Kelley, Chuck
Winston, Shaitaisha
Yanke, Myra
Project description
The “Read It Again and Again” workshops teach participants to incorporate a wide array of
learning activities in reading the same book to children over several days. Reading the same book
again and again deepens children’s understanding of text and provides opportunities to improve
their reading and writing skills. “Read It Again and Again” supports the Clerc Center’s Nine Areas
of Literacy initiative by teaching strategies for the “shared reading and writing” area. The Read It
Again and Again manual and video have been completed and are being disseminated through the
Clerc Center’s ongoing dissemination mechanisms.
Development
Prior years. A manual and video set, Read It Again and Again, was developed in 1998. A
workshop was developed at the Clerc Center in 2002 and was piloted at the Intermountain Special
Studies Institute in Pocatello, Idaho. The Clerc Center then contracted an instructional designer to
formalize the workshop and develop the necessary training materials. Once these were completed, the
workshop was tested again, and the Clerc Center provided a train-the-trainer program to form a pool
of qualified trainers for this workshop. In 2006, an additional video showed the process with older
students. Based on requests for strategies to use with older emerging readers, the “Read It Again and
Again” workshop was adapted, and the instructor’s guide and training materials were revised.
FY 2008 activities and/or product(s).
• Exploration and early planning began to develop a national train-the-trainer program
that would expand the pool of trainers to include educators from around the nation that
teach a variety of underserved populations.
Dissemination
Prior years. The Clerc Center began offering “Read It Again and Again” workshops in FY
2003. Since then, training has been provided to educators, schools, and programs throughout the
United States and as part of professional conferences and the Clerc Center Summer Institute.
FY 2008 activities and/or product(s).
• “Read It Again and Again” workshops:
Berrigan, D., & Yanke, M. (2008, March). Cincinnati, OH.
Berrigan, D., & Yanke, M. (2008, March). Columbus, OH.
Kelley, C., & Jeffries, R. (2008, May). Detroit, MI.
• This project has become part of the Clerc Center’s routine offerings and will not be
reported in this section in future years.
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