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Meaning Based Strategies Paper

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Reading and writing are intertwined. It is important that you do not separate the two in therapy. Thus, my ideal therapy will focus on a reading and writing portion.
Meaning-based strategies are contrastive, recurrent, embedded, active, and meaningful (CREAM). Meaning that emphasis will be on the actual reading, focus will be on the meaning during all readings, accuracy is not a priority, focus will be on strategies to construct meaningfulness, numerous opportunities of modeling, and the clinician will serve as a more competent model (D’amico, Lynch, & Tetnowski).
Some examples of meaning based strategies are think alouds, incorporating background knowledge, making predictions, re-reading, and making meaningful substitutions. Think alouds, …show more content…

The clinician will ask the client’s parents open-ended questions to gather information about the client from their perspective.
b. The clinician will clarify information found in the case history forms.
c. The clinician will audio record the interview.
B. The clinician will assess the client’s reading abilities
a. The clinician will use Goodman’s (1987) Miscue Analysis to document the client’s use of meaning-based strategies during reading.
b. The clinician will obtain a retell of reading sample.
c. The clinician will audio record the session.
C. The clinician will assess the client’s current writing abilities
a. The clinician will obtain two writing samples
b. The clinician will give the client a topic to write about for one sample.
c. The clinician will ask the client to write about anything he wants for the second sample.
d. The samples will be analyzed in accordance with Ruptic’s (1994) Emergent Writing Development Approach
Example Goals:
1. The client will increase use of meaning-based strategies during shared reading. Meaning-based strategies such as think alouds, incorporating background knowledge and making predictions, as well as re-reading, and making meaningful substitutions in order to improve

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