You want to know the levels of our reading model at which
readers have adequate knowledge and at which levels they are
having difficulty. Some of the questions you want to answer
when analysing reading and the types of data you can collect
to answer these are shown in the following:
| Are there word level difficulties? |
- Assess the reader's ability to read isolated words,
note types of words read automatically / using word
analysis and those that cause difficulty.
- Assess word reading accuracy when reading prose.
- Note the rate at which the reader says written words.
- Assess the reader's word meanings.
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| Are there sentence, conceptual and topic level difficulties? |
- Note the types of prose read well either aloud or
silently and the types that drop in performance.
- Note how well they use grammar and the meanings
of sentences.
- Note how well they retain a set of concepts or
a topic in the text they read.
|
| Are metacognitive aspects likely to cause difficulty? |
Note how they use planning, monitoring and comprehending actions,
how well they take remedial action, what they know about
useful reading strategies. |
| Are attitudes and feelings or habits likely to cause
difficulty? |
Note what readers believe about reading, how it is learnt
and themselves as readers, their interest in reading,
how often they read, literature they prefer to read. |
We need to answer these questions for reading prose loud,
silently and for reading isolated words.
