Ep. 1: Learners with Reading Difficulties.

Rebecca is a 4th-year pre-service teacher. In this episode, she discusses learners with reading difficulties and examines their characteristics. She talks to early-career teachers to discover how they use evidence-based strategies to collect data, and how this underpins classroom strategies for student support. In this episode, you will learn:

· Legislation that requires teachers to support children with reading difficulties.

· Reading frameworks, including the Reading Rope (Scarborough, 2001), the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986), and the Cognitive Foundations Framework (Tunmer & Hoover, 2019).

· Characteristics of students with reading difficulties, including dyslexia.

· Evidence-based approaches to collect data for creating a student profile.

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