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MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program

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Build and develop reading and writing skills with this research-proven curriculum program for children in grades K-5 with significant disabilities

The MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program is a research-proven multi-year literacy curriculum paired with age-appropriate content for beginning readers with significant disabilities in grades K-5. This curriculum helps teachers accelerate student outcomes by building generalisable literacy skills.

The program originated based on the belief that students with significant disabilities can and deserve the opportunity to develop generalisable literacy skills that can be applied in novel contexts, on assessments and in everyday life. The curriculum provides the type of scaffolding necessary for students to achieve this goal.

Three Organisations Leading Change

The MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program was conceived by Dr. Karen Erickson, AbleNet Inc., and Don Johnston Incorporated. The partnership brings together the power of MEville to WEville, AbleNet’s scientifically-supported early literacy and communication curriculum and extended MEville to WEville lessons that leverage the strength of Don Johnston’s research-based Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters content – all combined with the research expertise of Dr. Karen Erickson.

What makes the MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program different is that it offers a research-proven curriculum and age-appropriate content for older students, including three sets of Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters books and switch-accessible computer books written specifically for the MEville to WEville curriculum – all in one convenient package.

Generalised Development in Reading and Writing Skills

Students improved by an average of 40% (Cohen’s d=.44) after completing 40 instructor-delivered lessons from the MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program. See more research results for the MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program.

Program Overview

• MEville to WEville

  MEville to WEville was specifically developed for students with disabilities who have difficulties learning to read and write through traditional instructional methods. Designed to build a classroom community that promotes a sense of belonging, each unit offers students a new and different perspective on themselves, their families and their school.
  

• Extending MEville to WEville Lessons with Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters

  Like AbleNet’s original MEville to WEville curriculum, Extending MEville to WEville with Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters systematically integrates reading, writing, speaking, augmentative communicating and listening into lessons and activities designed to build a classroom community that promotes a sense of belonging.
  

• Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters

  The MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program includes three sets of Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters books written specifically for the MEville to WEville curriculum. Each book set includes three book types. Each type plays a unique and important role in literacy development.
  

  • The Enrichment texts emphasize language learning and the development of concepts about print.
    
  • The Transitional texts emphasise print referencing and print processing with minimal demands on language and word reading.
    
  • The Conventional texts emphasise word reading in connected text.

Program Contents/Curriculum Details

• MEville to WEville – Grades K-2 – Three units: Me, My Family, My School.

  Each of the units includes:
  

  • 300-page spiral bound manual in full colour
    
  • 75 lessons and 60 extension activities that focus on
    
    • reading activities
      
    • vocabulary and word wall activities
      
    • writing activities
      
    • creating books
      
    • art projects
      
    • games
      
    • brainstorming
      
    • relationship building
    
    
  • Action Dictionary: Assistive Technology Guide
    
  • One literature book that supports the theme and content of the lesson
    
  • Activity reproducibles created with Boardmaker PCS Symbols
    
  • Data collection tools for collecting and sharing student progress
  
  
• MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program – Grades 3-5 – Three units: Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters: Families – Rights and Responsibilities, Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters: Jobs – Work to Live and Learn, and Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters: Yearbook – Friends and Feelings.

  Each of the additional 3 unit lessons includes:
  

  • One set of Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters
    
    • 3 paperback books
      
    • 3 computer books on a CD
      
    • 3 vocabulary cards
      
    • 1 teacher materials CD
    
    
  • 45 Lessons mapped to the included Start-to-Finish content
    
  • 15 word study lessons that focus on
    
    • 7 vocabulary lessons
      
    • 8 Word Wall lessons
    
    
  • 15 comprehension lessons. Read to:
    
    • Choose a title
      
    • Identify feelings of characters
      
    • Identify the problem
      
    • Select or Propose an alternate ending
      
    • State your opinion
    
    
  • 15 writing lessons – Structured writing activities with connections to MEville to WEville. Write to:
    
    • Describe a picture from the book
      
    • Write a list of emotions
      
    • Write a list of things to do to help
      
    • Tell about likes and dislikes
      
    • Write a note to a friend

Karen Erickson, Ph.D. is the Director of the Centre for Literacy and Disability Studies at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, USA.

Related Products

• MEville to WEville
  
• Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters

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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Program - Single Set	Includes complete MEville to WEville collection, Extending MEville to WEville Lessons with Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters, three Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters sets and curriculum resources.
	DJB402	CD-ROM, Book, Resource		$1,379.00	$137.90
	Extending MEville to WEville with Literacy Starters Books	Includes Extending MEville to WEville Lessons with Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters book, and three Start-to-Finish Literacy Starters sets and curriculum resources.
	AB700-801300	CD-ROM, Book, Resource		$809.00	$80.90