Strategies for Struggling Readers

Teaching Strategies to Help Struggling Readers

These are the guidelines used to help teachers evaluate and help the students who are struggling with reading comprehension and fluency:

Conduct initial multiple assessments to determine each student's level of proficiency.

This is evaluated from formal (standardized tests) and informal (teacher observations and progress notes).

Systematically and periodically monitor student's progress to (a) inform your instruction and (b) meet each student's academic needs.

It is important to conduct informal assessments and make necessary changes.

Teachers can encourage students to self-monitor their progress through the use of charting fluency scores or completing an editing checklist.

Provide explicit instruction.

Teachers need to include clear, specific, easy-to-follow instructions

Teachers can work collaboratively to assist students who are struggling with their reading.

Teachers can encourage struggling students to work with phonological processing (detecting, segmenting, blending and/or manipulating the sounds in a spoken language)

Provide instruction three to five times per week.

This is defined as more instructional time to target students' specific needs.

By maximizing student engagement helps the student to become interest and increase motivation.

Teach struggle students in small groups of three to five students based on similar instructional needs.

Teachers can incorporate grouping to allow struggling students to work with more than one group of students.

Change group membership depending on the students' progress to better meet instructional needs.

Encourage peer tutoring to increase the amount of engaged academic time. These students can be paired with proficient readers.

Use materials at the students' appropriate reading levels.

The reading material should be interesting and engaging to the student.

 

To calculate the reading accuracy, divide the total of the number of words read correctly by the total number of words read.


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