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Reading Difficulties & How To Overcome

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Language comprehension

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What is Dyslexia? (Rose Report, 2009)

• ‘Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate & fluent word reading & spelling.’

• Occurs across the range of intellectual abilities.

• Continuum

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Children may have difficulties with• phonological awareness(identifying & manipulating sounds)•verbal memory (retaining an ordered sequence of verbal material) •verbal processing (processing familiar verbal information e.g. letters & digits)• Visual memory (tracking & processing).

Characteristic features of dyslexiaCharacteristic features of dyslexia

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Other Associated Difficulties with Reading Difficulties & Dyslexia

• poor gross and fine motor coordination

• weak language skills and word finding difficulties

• difficulty with short term and working memory

• unable to follow complex instructions

• poor organisation and management of time

• low self esteem

Note: These are not by themselves markers of dyslexia.

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Key to Success

• Ensure they have focused, early intervention to support their literacy

•Make dyslexic learners into successful learners

• Put in place strategies to

support their learning which

will benefit all pupils

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Developing word recognition skills

• phoneme awareness and phonics teaching

• repetition and teaching of ‘tricky’ words

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Developing language comprehension

• talking with children

• reading to children

• learning about words

• teaching comprehension strategies

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How to support short term memory

• Mind mapping

• Precision teaching

• Over learning

• Chunking instructions

• Repetition of instructions

• Visual timetables

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Questions and

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Targeted areas of intervention

decoding

comprehension

Pre-reading skills

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Reading has two components

Word Recognition

The ability to recognise words presented in and out

of context.

The ability to apply phonic rules - blending phonemes to

decode.

High quality phonics work – prime approach for beginners

in learning to decode and encode.

Comprehension

The process by which word information, sentences and discourse are interpreted.

The same processes underlie comprehension of both oral and

written language.

Continues to develop throughout life!