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Two main types of reading problems

Sandie Barrie-Blackley
posted this on January 03, 2011 18:56

Research has shown that reading comprehension depends on two types of skills:

Listening comprehension (such as following spoken directions or understanding a story that is read aloud)
Single word recognition (“decoding”)

This is expressed in a following formula is called The Simple View of Reading by researchers Wesley A. Hoover and Philip B. Gough. The formula says that reading comprehension is equal to listening comprehension multiplied by word recognition:

reading comprehension = listening comprehension X word recognition

The Lexercise Screener is designed to determine if your child might have a problem with reading. Click here to use a pass-fail, public version of the Lexercise Screener to test your child’s word-recognition ability.

if you think your child is a struggling reader or writer schedule an evaluation to determine what is causing that trouble.