The Bodine School

Grades 1-3

• Difficulty with learning sound/symbol correspondences confusion of visually similar letters such as b/d/p, w/m, h/n or f/t confusion of auditorily similar letters such as d/t, b/p or f/v
   
• Difficulty remembering basic sight vocabulary problems with segmenting words into individual sounds and blending sounds to form words reading and spelling errors that involve
   
• Difficulties with sequencing and monitoring sound/symbol correspondence such as reversals of letters (past/pats), omissions (tip/trip), additions (slip/sip), substitutions (rip/rib) and transpositions (stop/pots)
   
• Omission of grammatical endings in reading and/or writing (-s, -ed, -ing, etc.)
   
• Difficulty remembering spelling words over time and applying spelling rules
   
• Poor oral reading skills