When working to identify skill gaps in Literacy, it is important to utilize both screening and diagnostic information for students. The following flow chart can assist teams with knowing where a skill gap lies for a student:
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Academic Strengths:
Can understand the organization and basic features of print
Can understand spoken words, syllables, and sounds
Can apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
Academic Weaknesses:
Difficulty with letter-sound correspondence
Difficulty to quickly and effortlessly decode words
Difficulty applying strategies when reading words
Difficulty applying phonics when reading unknown words
Difficulty blending words
Academic Strengths:
Can read text with accuracy, speed, and intonation and exhibit specific characteristics, such as: well-developed word-recognition skills, allowing the reader to use automatic decoding. Reading that sounds effortless and occurs without stumbling over individual words.
Academic Weaknesses:
Slow and labored reading; frequent stopping at unknown words. Lacking expression appropriate to the meaning in oral reading. Inefficient or inaccurate decoding of unfamiliar words.
Academic Strengths:
Can read text, process it and understand its meaning.
Academic Weaknesses:
Confusion about the meaning of words and sentences, with an inability to connect ideas in a passage. Omission of, or glossing over detail is evident with difficulty distinguishing significant information from minor details. Limited vocabulary will impact comprehension in a variety of ways including inferencing, summarizing, grasping main ideas, etc.
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