Problem Identification
Is there a problem? What is it?
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His Instructional Resource Team referral says...
"Andy has struggled with reading skills and memory. He reads and writes numbers backwards. His parents report that he had an accident when was a toddler and was hospitalized and has always struggled with memory and reading. He often loses his place when reading, has poor alphabetic knowledge and poor sight word vocabulary. He reads at a slow pace and has poor comprehension.
Andy is often disorganized possesses limited memory skills and needs directions repeated frequently. He is fidgety and often off task. Andy has difficulty completing tasks and is often anxious especially if he gets behind with his seat work.
For his difficulty maintaining attention he was given preferential seating and his teacher checked for understanding when giving directions. These interventions helped decrease Andy's anxiety and increased his comprehension.He received supplemental reading instruction where he did best using picture cues. For copying Andy was allowed extra time which helped."
-Classroom Teacher
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Quiz
Look for key phrases and order them from most important to least important, that will guide us in defining Andy's reading problem.
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