What: Presentation Handout
Handout Link Here
Students who struggle with literacy, including students who use AAC, may
struggle to comprehend texts (e.g., stories, chapters, articles, plays, and
poems) because they don’t understand features including complex vocabulary words,
complex sentences, and figurative language. Text simplification is a useful strategy to
support these students. This session
will provide an overview of strategies for text simplification (simplifying
passages based on course requirements and student language needs), as well as, text
summaries (providing a summary of the content of a passage). Resources will be reviewed for text
summarization, and specific rules will be described for text
simplification. Participants will be
given a sample passage to simplify using rules provided. Throughout the session, text resources will
also be shared.
Who: Dr. Gretchen Hanser and Dr. Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite
Where: Closing the Gap Conference, Minneapolis, MN 2018
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