tiered instruction

Can dyslexia and dysgraphia be remediated?

• YES

• NO

Evidence-based reading instruction, including explicit and systematic instruction in phonics...

• Is beneficial for students with reading difficulties but harmful for typical learners.

• Improves the neural connectivity between regions of the brain that are responsible for reading.

• supports both typical and struggling readers.

• helps very few students with dyslexia.

Which of the following is NOT an instructional recommendation for students with dyslexia and other students who have difficulty reading?

• Provide opportunities for students to apply decoding skills in the context of connected text with teacher guidance.

• Increase the intensity of instruction to support students’ learning needs.

• Provide scaffolded word building, word analysis, and spelling instruction to support advanced decoding and encoding skills.

• Adapt or intensify instruction ONLY after a student has been identified as having a learning disability, dyslexia, or dysgraphia.

Which of the following is a characteristic of dysgraphia?

• Writing avoidance and frustration

• complete letter formation

• written output that matches oral output

• all of the above

When a child is having difficulty learning to read, the teacher should consider which of the following?

• The child’s ability to understand spoken language

• The child’s ability to decode words

• The child’s knowledge of vocabulary

• All of the above