WorksheetsWhen Older Students Can't Read: Research Based Reading
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
What was the problem the research study focused on?
Frustration with school administration.
Not enough support for students in mathematics.
Frustration when students older than 3rd grade display reading difficulties.
Frustration with the high school drop out and adult illiteracy rates.
Why is there a problem when older students struggle? Aren’t there national programs in schools to help with reading?
Yes, but...school initiatives mostly focus on early intervention for Kindergarten and 1st grades.
Yes, but school initiatives focus on reading failure, only at the high school level.
Yes, but school initiatives focus mostly on after school reading programs and purchasing reading materials.
Yes, but...school initiatives only focus on parents and community engagement.
What does the Fundamental Idea of the Simple View of Reading say?
All reading instruction is the same.
All students can learn to read eventually.
Reading instruction is effective if the focus is on two key essentials: reading often and choosing the right books.
Reading instruction is effective if the focus includes BOTH Decoding and Comprehension.
Isn’t reading instruction ALL the SAME?
Yes
No
What does Effective Instruction look like?
Effective Reading Interventions are grounded in lots of exposure to reading.
Effective Reading Interventions are grounded in Teacher developed spelling and phonics.
Effective Reading Interventions are ones that are grounded in research.
Effective Reading Interventions do NOT promote reading across the content areas.
According to the research presented, Instruction that works includes Reading acquisition as a result of these components:
Decoding and Comprehension equals Reading Acquisition
Phonics and Reading Strategies equals Reading Acquisition.
Sight word drills, and Fluency equals Reading Acquisition.
Test taking strategies and Memorization equals Reading Acquisition.
"Beyond third grade, poor readers can be taught ONLY if the program has all the necessary components."
True
False
How can the older struggling reader be described accurately according to the research?
They are lazy and don't try hard enough.
They can never catch up to their peers, as much an any teacher tries.
They avoid reading, not necessarily due to laziness, but because it’s unsatisfying, slow, and frustrating,
Limited vocabulary since they do not recognize letter sequences so they will never catch up to their peers.
“Above all,
students must
read as much as possible
in text that is
not too difficult
for them to close the
huge gap
between themselves and other students.”
True
False
If teachers are committed to
applying best practices
supported by reading research,
there is hope for any struggling reader!
False
True
