The Bodine School

Grades 4-8

• Significant difficulty reading and spelling multisyllabic words, often omitting entire syllables
   
• Lack of awareness of word structure (prefixes, roots, suffixes)
   
• Frequent misreading of common sight words (where, there, what, then, when, etc.)
   
• Difficulty with reading comprehension and learning new information from text because of poor word recognition
   
• Significant difficulty in writing related to problems in spelling as well as organizing ideas