School Aged Reading Impairment

Question 1

Reading Impairment

Answer 1

-Decoding and Comprehension

Question 2

Key Features: Simple View of Reading

Answer 2

• Simple View of Reading
  
  • poor language comprehension
  • poor decoding
  • weakness in both areas

Question 3

Key Features: Reading Comprehension

Answer 3

Reading Comprehension
- Difficulties in foundational skills
- Vocabulary Development
- Narrative Ability
- use of meta-strategies

Question 4

Etiology

Answer 4

• General Language Disorder
• Dyslexia

Question 5

Assessment: Decoding (Phonological Awareness)

Answer 5

• Norm Referenced
• Criterion Referenced
• Assessed in sequential order of development

Question 6

Assessment: Reading Comprehension

Answer 6

• Literal Questions
• Inferential Questions
• Critical Questions

Question 7

Intervention: Decoding (Phonological Awareness)

Answer 7

• Blending/Segmenting
• Teaching meta-cognitive strategies
• Elkonin Boxes

Question 8

Intervention: Reading Comprehension

Answer 8

• Explicitly teaching meta-strategies
  
  • Activate Prior Knowledge
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Summarization
  • Re Reading