Being able to read is the most important part of having a successful education. Every single class you do at school requires reading to some extent, and while there are some practices in place to help dyslexic students get by, most of the time they’ve been proven to be inadequate. Therefore, one of the most important tasks for a teacher and for a school, is to be able to correctly gauge the reading abilities of students.

Determining reading ability isn’t such a clear cut process though, as to get a good understanding of their abilities you need to have a break down of them. The two main areas which determine reading ability is vocabulary and comprehension; or being able to an individual word, and then being able to understand how the meaning of these words is determined by the context in which they’re used. If there is a problem with either of these areas, you can then decide whether or not you need to focus on improving a students vocabulary, by helping with definitions of words, or if you need to focus on improving their understanding of grammar.