Literacy and Children with Special Needs
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Special students have special needs. These students are typically considered poor readers. They are usually behind in reading and writing skills when compared to their classmates. The individual instruction that these students receive normally involves the recognition of identifying sounds of letters and words instead of the structure of their meaning in the context of a text or story. Poor readers are frequently asked to read aloud more often than other more skilled readers. Also, their teachers tend to interrupt their reading instead of encouraging them towards a self-monitoring approach to their reading. Teachers need to be extra sensitive to certain ideals when teaching young children who have reading difficulties. It is important that teachers actually believe that the student can and will become a good reader and writer. The student also needs predictable material to help encourage successful reading practice. Teachers can best achieve this task if they use quality children's books written by well-known authors...