Reading Difficulties

Reading Difficulties in Children

Introduction

This paper begins with a resolute affirmation: the success of a child to school throughout his life depends largely on his reading skills. One of the greatest challenges for education specialists in school is to ensure that all students can read (Fuchs, & Barnes, 2007)

Every year nearly a quarter of all young people leave school with only basic skills in reading and spelling, and with a little motivation to voluntarily take up a book (Stanovich & Cunningham, 2010). In every year, thousands of children are failed in the early stages of teaching reading in the task and write to learn. The school is obviously overwhelmed; pupils effectively to promote respect for this important key qualification (Gough & Hillinger, 1980).

Reading Recovery (RR) is a widely used first grade intervention program for students who are struggling with literacy skills. With its component strategies, teacher training, high degree of fidelity of treatment, specified timeline, and cut-off score defining which students have succeeded, RR fits the problem-solving approach of the Response-to-Intervention (RtI) model. This conceptual paper provides a description of (1) the RtI paradigm, (2) where RR could fit as a component intervention, and (3) what additional remedial activities and assessments could help school teams have insight as to which students with reading disabilities (RD) should be identified for long-term programming.

Discussion

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading. But for a good reading comprehension among many sub-components such as speech understanding, topic-knowledge, motivation, the ability to read fluently and accurately has great importance. For problems in one of these basic areas, the comprehension is impaired.

It is important that teachers realize that, with effective teaching all children can learn to read. The school is responsible to provide the level of support needed for each student, so that it can reach its full potential in reading.

The Nature of Reading Difficulties

Learning to read

Learning to read is based on the same basis for all students, boys and girls, whatever their age or ability. It always involves the acquisition of some skill, based on ability to understand and some motivation to read; even for the students that learning is a challenge. It is therefore to develop in all students the same knowledge and life skills and offer them for this purpose the same kind of educational activities.

Many parents become quite concerned when looking at their child's writing and see that their child is confusing letters such as b/d, p/q or m/w. Letter and word reversals have become so strongly associated with dyslexia that it's no wonder why parents are anxious when they see such confusions. As educators, it is important for us to understand why students reverse letters and to provide parents with the best information possible.

Dyslexia

The word “dyslexia” means difficulty with words. The word “dyslexia” means “difficulty with words”. Dyslexia is a specific disorder of learning to read, linked to a particular difficulty in identifying letters, the syllables or words that occurs in the absence of any deficit in visual, auditory, ...