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Adaptations for Struggling Readers in the Content Areas

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Determine What to Teach: Difficult Words to Decode

• Select "troublesome words"
• Typically multi-syllable words
• Important for understanding the content
• Determine
• Words that require teaching a word analysis strategy
• Words that require teaching as a sight word
• Words to "tell" when students come to them