Struggling Readers

How to Spot ‘em And

What if You’ve Got ‘em

Deb Morris, M.Ed., F/AOGPE

Good readers gain an increasingly stronger language base with which to be even more successful readers.

If a student fails to become a proficient reader by third grade, he is going to struggle when he has to start to read to learn in 4th grade.

Reversals

Omissions

Substitutions

Inversions

Additions

Literal versus figurative language

Difficulty with multiple-meaning words

Word Retrieval

Summarizing, synthesizing, and paraphrasing

Problems finding the main idea

Lack of knowledge of phrase structure

16% Increase of 2+ GL in 3 months       29% Increase of 2 GL in 6 months       26% Increase of 2 GL in 12 months       13% Increase of 3 GL in 24 months       3% Increase of 2 GL in 36 months       10% Maintained initial GL       3% Lost one GL after a year of instruction      

I Read It, But I Don’t Get It, by Cris

Tovani

Writing Skills, by Diana Hanbury King

Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz,

M.D.

Books for Struggling ReadersHigh Interest, Low Level Books:

www.orcabook.comhttp://www.sdlback.com/estore/search/http://www.townsendpress.com/our-books/bluford-series/