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Struggling reader Flow Chart
Notice the signs of a struggling reader.
Becomes easily frustrated.
Disinterested or bored
Has trouble concentrating
Takes a long time to complete written work.
Becomes combative and irritable
Shows anxiety around assignments
Has difficulty following directions.
Identify the specific problem
Engage with the child and if necessary, with the other teachers and administration to determine what exactly is going on.
If no IEP is required and the student is still struggling, then many differentiation strategies can be employed to make the content more accessible.
Dyslexia – a disability that impacts phonological processing
Expressive Language Disorder – when students struggle with speaking which can also impact fluency and accuracy while reading aloud
Receptive Language Disorder – when students have a difficult time taking in the information that is being told to them which can impact when others are reading aloud in the classroom
Visual Processing Disorder– when students have a difficult time taking in the information that they see which can impact when they are reading independently
Attention Deficit Disorder – when students struggle to focus and stay on task, which can impact their ability to attend to text, limit short-term recall, and impact how the student processes information.
To use reading struggles as an example, differentiated teaching.com presents several possible issues that can be responsible.
Differentiation for struggling readers
Use Audiobooks to access the material. Not everyone thrives by receiving information visually. Provide other options
Allow other ways to demonstrate mastery of the content than written ones. For example, an oral presentation, or a multimedia project.
Use tools to help struggling readers to track the text, like covered overlays or reading guide strips
Pre-teach the challenging vocabulary that will be encountered in the text. This has been proven to help ease the anxiety of struggling readers when they do come across it later.
Experiment with the special fonts that have been developed like Dyslexie, or others to help make the words stand out a bit more on the page.
Will Jones, Module 2, Unit 3, activity 1
Works Cited
Hairston, A. & Liberty University. (2011, October). Identifying and Helping Struggling Readers. Liberty University.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1136506.pdf
How to differentiate instruction & reading tasks to support struggling learners. (2020). Differentiated Teaching.
https://www.differentiatedteaching.com/simple-ways-to-differentiate-reading-tasks-to-support-struggling-learners/
Therapy Travellers. (2018, February 18). Strategies for Teaching Students with Intellectual Disabilities. Therapytravelers.Com.
https://therapytravelers.com/strategies-teaching-students-intellectual-disabilities/