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Targeted Instruction for Struggling Readers

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Students’ Needs

• Identify the reading problems of each student
• Remember: students demonstrate wide variations in reading difficulties.
• Begin with comprehension and continue diagnosing to find the range of difficulties
• Comprehension difficulties
• Vocabulary and background knowledge need to be determined during all instruction
• Fluency
• Word identification