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1. Understanding Reading Difficulties

2. Diagnosing Reading Difficulties
   
  Engage
  A1 - All that you know
  B1 - All that you know
   
  Describe
  Examples of reading behaviour A5, B10, C4 and D4
   
  Analyse
  WORD LEVEL
  A8 - Orthographic recognition (Secondary)
  C8 - Orthographic recognition (Primary)
  A9 - Orthographic vocalising (Secondary)
  D9 - Orthographic vocalising (Primary)
  C9 & C10 - Orthographic vocalising, multisyllabic words & Review
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  SENTENCE/TOPIC LEVEL
  B10 & B11 - Read and spontaneous retell (Lower Primary)
  A13 (A13,14,15) - Read, retell and cued retell and visualise (Secondary)
  D4 & D5 - Read and retell (Middle years)
  D6 - Re-read (Middle years)
  A2 & A3 - Read and show comprehension - Answer Q.s (Secondary)
  C2 & C3 - Read and show comprehension - Answer Q.s (Primary)
   
  Explain
  B2 & B3 - Phonological recognition (Primary)
  B4 - Phonological vocalising of onset & rime (Primary)
  B5 - Frequent, whole word reading
  A7 - Phonological recoding of non-words (Secondary)
  C6 - Phonological recoding of non-words (Primary)
   
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3. Designing a reading intervention
   
  Before reading
  3-1 New vocabulary (2)
4-6 Predicting by phrases
5-1 Predicting from sentences
5-2 Asking possible questions
5-3 Phrases and key words, make a picture in your mind
5-4 Inferring, using key sentences/phrases
5-5 Reading a story
5-6 Describing pictures in words
5-7 Describing pictures in sentences
   
  While reading
  1-2 What questions does the text answer?
1-3 Make a picture in your mind
1-4 New vocabulary (1)
2-1 Predicting (setting the scene)
2-2 Predicting and paraphrasing
2-3 Visualising and putting yourself in the picture
2-4 Predicting, key words and phrases
   
  After reading
  2-6 Paraphrasing (3)
3-2 Reviewing - visualising and summarising
3-3 Reviewing - summarising
3-4 Reviewing - questions the story answers
3-5 Reviewing - inferring
3-6 Reviewing - key words and vocabulary
4-1 New vocabulary (3) letter clusters
4-2 Reviewing reading actions (1)
4-3 Reviewing reading actions (2)
4-4 New knowledge and existing knowledge
4-5 Feelings and dispositional