Reading Strategies For Struggling Readers

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Reading Strategies For Struggling Readers
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Summary:
Struggling readers are simply individuals who have not learned effective reading strategies. D

Keywords:
education,reading,teaching,struggling readers,learning

Article Body:
Struggling readers are simply individuals who have not learned effective reading strategies. D

Reading strategies can be organized into two distinct groups: decoding strategies and comprehe
Decoding Strategies
Without getting into a long debate over whether children should learn to read through phonics

Some indicators that a student needs explicit instruction in phonemic awareness include: skipp

It is helpful if students are able to recognize and spell a number of simple words. Dolch voca


A common decoding strategy that is taught to struggling readers is called chunking. If student

One school of thought considers the ability to decode words a precursor to reading comprehensi
Comprehension Strategies

Good readers regularly re-read, predict, infer, conclude, question, compare, contrast; and the

There is one main indicator that a student needs explicit instruction in comprehension strateg

There are many comprehension strategies that can be taught to struggling readers. Telling a st
Re-Reading - Not to be confused with "just read it again," re-reading is a deliberate attempt
Predicting - Using titles, pictures, or key words, students attempt to predict the content of
Re-Stating - This strategy encourages students to look at main ideas. They re-state what they

The best support for struggling readers is individual and intensive. In my opinion, struggling

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