Answer to Question #218770 in English for Palesa

Question

1.1 Describe how you can identify learners who experience barriers to reading due to the following undeveloped perceptual skills: 1.1.1 Directionality 
1.1.2 Laterality 

1.1.3 Spatial relationship
1.2 Briefly explain the intervention strategies you can use to support learners who experience barriers to reading due to the following: 1.2.1 Laterality 1.2.2 Spatial relationship

Answer 1

1.1 Describe how you can identify learners who experience barriers to reading due to the following undeveloped perceptual skills;

1.1.1 Directionality

Directionality refers to ability to know tight from left, up from down or forwards from backwards. A child with directionality problem has difficulty dealing with directions of objects in relation to self. The child may also read words back to front and also track the sentences from right to left and read from the bottom of the page to the top.

1.1.2 Laterality

Laterality refers to motor awareness of the two sides of the body. A child who has laterality problem has not yet internalized the knowledge that the body has two sides. The child will have difficulties in spelling and frequent reading errors.

1.1.3 Spatial Relationship

Spatial perception abilities enables individuals to explore a visual field, to detect spatial position and to infer relationships between visual stimuli. A child with spatial relationship problems tends to read slowly and have poor memory.

1.2 Briefly explain the intervention strategies you can use to support learners who experience barriers to reading due to the following:

1.2.1 Laterality

One of the strategies that one can use is shared reading where the teacher reads aloud while the students follow along in their own books. This way the teacher models fluency.

1.2.2 Spatial Relationship

One strategy that one can use is by make learning participative by pairing up strong and weak readers who takes turns reading, rereading and retelling.