Learners With Reading Difficulties.

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.

· Using data to inform systems of support.

· Holistic supports for learners with reading difficulties.

Supplementary Materials

This link (https://bitesizedbigtopics.my.canva.site) contains information relating to the following topics:

· Scarborough’s (2001) Reading Rope: An illustration of the components or strands of reading that interweave to create a skilled reader (00:52).

· The Simple View of Reading (SVR) framework (Gough & Tunmer, 1986): A visual representation to support educators in understanding reading difficulties (01:20).

· The Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) (de Bruin et al., 2024): A visual representation to support educators in understanding the MTSS (04:36).

· The Cognitive Foundations Framework (CFF) (Tunmer & Hoover, 2019): An image of the CFF, which aims to support educators in understanding the cognitive capacities required for reading, allowing for effective teaching and assessment (05:10).