Reading Difficulties Profile Overview

What are the characteristics of each reading difficulty profile?

Specific Word Recognition Difficulty

Mixed Reading Difficulties

Specific Reading Comprehension Difficulty

• Poor word recognition skills due to weak phonemic awareness and/or phonics skills
• Weak reading comprehension skills including with texts that can be read independently
• Non-fluent reader due to difficulties with word recognition and language comprehension
• May struggle with writing and crafting sentences

• Average word recognition skills including phonemic awareness and phonics
• Poor reading comprehension even though texts are read proficiently
• Can be due to poor oral language skills like vocabulary, syntax, background knowledge, and other language comprehension skills
• Any reading fluency problems are caused by poor language comprehension, not the ability to read words

• Poor word recognition skills due to poorly developed phonemic awareness and/or phonics skills
• Average reading comprehension of texts that can be read independently or oral questioning from read alouds
• Poor reading fluency due to poor word reading ability
• May have spelling difficulties