Reading difficulties
Sunday, 05 October 2008 07:23
Successful intervention depends on assessment and accurate diagnosis of a student's reading strengths and difficulties.Successful reading involves decoding and comprehending. Based on assessment and diagnosis of a student's reading strengths and difficulties a systematic and sequential program will be developed. The program will be based on a combination of the following:
Decoding skills:
- Phonological awareness
- Sound/symbol correspondence
- Phonic rules
- Word recognition
- Word attack
- Oral reading - accuracy and fluency
- Vocabulary development
- Concept development
- Grammatical structure
- Semantic relationship between words and sentences
- Context cues
- Making connections
- Using prior knowledge/experience
- Visualising techniques
- Making predictions
- Questioning
- Making judgements
- Summarising
- Paraphrasing
- Inferential thinking skills
- Critical thinking skills
Progress evaluation:
Formal on-going appraisal of a student's progress will be carried out by means of standardised assessment in:
- Oral reading accuracy
- Oral reading fluency
- Comprehension of text
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