Special education

             Literacy skills are important for a student to develop because difficulties with reading and writing will affect all areas of their school achievement. Reading is the main way that students find and present information for school activities. It is also the main way that students learn (Robinson, 2001). A high percentage of the school day incorporates paper and pencil activities which involve reading; and when students move into later primary and then into high school, they will come across word problems in mathematics that they must read and be able to comprehend in order to understand mathematics topics.
             According to a 1992 Australian government enquiry into early literacy, 10-20% of students finish primary school with literacy problems. This therefore, means that these literacy difficulties will extend into adulthood for most of these students. As a result, it is more that likely that all teachers, during their career will be involved with students who have literacy problems (Robinson, 2001). This was evident at St Jerome's, where due to the high proportion of students with special needs at the school, just about every teacher had at least one student with special needs in their class. Thus, all teachers must understand how students with literacy problems feel and the best way to support them. It is not something that teachers can ignore and hope they never have to deal with.
             This is where the Macquarie Reading Tutor Program fits in. The Special Education teachers at St Jerome's use the Expressive Word Attack Skills Test to assess students with special needs on the following literacy skills:
             - short vowels - consonants - upper case - cv blends
             - cvc blends - cvcc words - ccv blends - ccv words
             - cccv blends - cccv words - consonant digraphs
             - consonant digraph words - letter names - long vowel words
             - various letter combinations - r-controlled words
             - words with r-controlled vowels - compound, tw...

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