Diverse Learners Top Hat Organizer

Kyle Krestan
Article One: Literacy Education and Disability Article Two: Dyslexia: What Reading Teachers
Studies: Reenvisioning Struggling Students Need to Know

● Talks about DSE(Disability studies in
education) as a source of information to help
the two students.
● Used first person accounts to relay the
message of understanding and change.
● Discusses the disconnect from a cultural
perspective of teachers and students
● Focused primarily on citing sources that gave
answers rather than examples of the problem.
● Very data driven ideas and supports.
● Breaks down areas in which students with
Dyslexia normally struggle in to provide some
best practices to mitigate the struggle for them,
supported by more evidence.

Similarities:

● Both outline different strategies to support students that do not have the ability to learn the same way
as the teacher did.
● Both make clear distinctions of students that may have a disability to students who have a cultural or
linguistic disconnect to the teacher.
● The necessity in the collaboration of teachers, parents, students, and the administration is stressed in
order to support the students inside and outside the classroom.

My Thoughts:
The first thoughts I had while reading these articles were that of disconnect. Honestly, that was to be expected
because I have never really been exposed to people with disabilities or just of different cultural backgrounds
until college. Even in college most people that I was around were still of similar ideology as me. This
semester is really the first time I have been exposed to a classroom that is made up almost exclusively of
hispanic students. So far I don’t think this has created a lot of issues except for when I first showed up to the
class because a lot of the students were behind in the class and when I would help them with subjects I found
it necessary to use more visuals than that of previous internships. Overall, these articles reminded me of how
much more I have to go when it comes to interacting and supporting students to achieve literacy in science as
well as general literacy.

Citations
Collins, K. & Ferri, B. (2016). Literacy education and disability studies: Reenvisioning struggling students.
(Links to an external site.) ​Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 60(1), p. 7-12.
Johnson, V. (2019). Dyslexia what teachers need to know (Links to an external site.) 0(0), p. 1-8.​ International
Literacy Association.