My name is Venessa Sooknanan Mohammed. I am a Masters in Education Reading student at the University of the West Indies. This Blog was set up as part of the requirement for a course that is being done this semester - ICT for Reading.

I am the Head of the Science Department at Williamsville Secondary School and I teach Agricultural Science. This school was deshifted and converted in 2006 and over the past two years we had the task of preparing students for CSEC.

The change from the Junior Secondary culture and the shift system presented various challenges. Among these were the teaching of Special students and main stream students who were not ready for that level of work. This challenge prompted me to get training in literacy. As a result I did the Certificate in the Teaching of Reading. This course enabled me to incorporate reading in the content area and implement strategies that will assist students to read.

The desire to help these struggling readers motivated me to do remedial work with them. The Masters programme that I am presently pursuing is able to help me assess, diagnose to some extent and plan instruction that can incoperate all aspects of learning to help struggling readers.