Why Is Reading Intervention Important?
Reading intervention is important because it is the main way that students with learning disabilities can get the intensive help they need. Interventions should be conducted by a teacher or a trained assistant to ensure that the student is getting help in the most appropriate way for his or her learning needs.
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Reading Difficulties
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Reading intervention is important because it can help a teacher identify a child's specific reading problems. That is difficult to do when observing reading ability in a whole-group situation. When children are reading together, struggling readers will often mimic the better students, making it hard for the teacher to know there is a problem.
Reading Skills
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Reading intervention allows the teacher to reinforce a particular reading skill. That is especially helpful for students in grades K-2, because those are the years that children are learning basic reading skills such as letter recognition, decoding sounds, and blending sounds into words.
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One-to-One Instruction
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Reading intervention provides one of the best ways for children to get individual time with a teacher or trained assistant. Usually, students targeted for intervention are those who need extra help with some facet of the reading process. One-on-one remedial instruction is essential if those students are to become successful readers.
Student Input
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Reading intervention also can improve the student's participation in the process. Children who are timid in the classroom will be more likely to ask questions and share their difficulties with the teacher because reading intervention groups usually consist of no more than three students. Intervention sessions can be beneficial to the teacher in ascertaining and addressing behavioral as well as academic problems.
Benefits
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Reading intervention is important to the overall academic experience of a child because improved reading ability will help a child in all other subjects. When students are able to see their own progress, they become more confident in their abilities, which will increase their chances of being successful throughout school.
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