Standard III.
Strengths and Needs of Individual Students:
The Reading Specialist recognizes how the differing strengths and needs of individual students influence their literacy development, applies knowledge of primary and secondary language acquisition to promote literacy, and applies knowledge of reading difficulties, dyslexia, and reading disabilities to promote literacy.
3.8s
The beginning Reading Specialist is able to use assessment results to help design instruction that promotes reading skills by building on strengths and addressing needs for students with reading difficulties, dyslexia, and reading disabilities.
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This is really the nuts and bolts of the position of Reading Specialists in public schools today. They are responsible for working with those learners with varying levels of abilities and through small group or individual instruction, able to increase comprehension, fluency, and the entire continuum of reading difficulties, and other areas of growth of learners in the school setting.
This is also important for intervention of learners who might be at risk of dropping out of school or failure in a grade. Unfortunately, many Reading Specialists have become TAKS tutors.
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