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How to Spot ‘em And What if You’ve Got ‘em Deb Morris, M.Ed., F/AOGPE

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Struggling Readers. How to Spot ‘ em And What if You ’ ve Got ‘ em. Deb Morris, M.Ed., F/AOGPE. Matthew Effect. Good readers gain an increasingly stronger language base with which to be even more successful readers. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Struggling Readers

How to Spot ‘em And

What if You’ve Got ‘em

Deb Morris, M.Ed., F/AOGPE

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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.

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Reversals

Omissions

Substitutions

Inversions

Additions

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Literal versus figurative language

Difficulty with multiple-meaning words

Word Retrieval

Summarizing, synthesizing, and paraphrasing

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Problems finding the main idea

Lack of knowledge of phrase structure

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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      

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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.

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Books for Struggling ReadersHigh Interest, Low Level Books:

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