Reading and reading comprehension - what's the difference?

[bjkmummy]

Just starting to get properly prepared for th tribunal,

I know I shouldn't be concentrating on NC levels but want to be prepared cos that's where the LA are going to try and show she's made progress.

Up to year 3 reading is referred to as reading then in year 4 it changes to reading comprehension and there's a sub level of progress - she also changed schools in year 4 as well - so is there a difference between reading and reading comprehension? Or is it the same thing?

Sorry guys if you see lots of posts from me over the next few days as I get finally prepared!

I have had standardised testing done but that only covers the period from oct 2013 to now as that's the only time it has been done and only cos we have got our own professionals involved. In the reading standardised tests she has stayed on the 2nd centile and hasn't moved and her working memory fallen from 4th centile to the 2nd centile

Bjk - on standardised tests the pure reading will be single word and the comprehension will be sentence. Ime the single word is below age expectation in single word but may be above age expectation when the word is in a sentence and can be deduced in DC with dyslexia. It seems to be the opposite in ASD - above age single word but below age sentence.

In other words comprehension is preferred by the LA as the scores are generally higher. So, use reading/decoding - more appropriate.

Right that makes sense. Her reading single word is well below and her reading comprehension would be higher in line with her IQ -I'm talking out loud to myself her. Yes it all makes sense to me now and I can now see what's really going on - thanks everyone - sure I will be back again over the weekend but will concentrate on this bit tonight to get it straight in my head

Reading is the technical skill of sounding out words. Reading comprehension is have a clue what the message is.

Yes. I think people with dyslexia but high IQ become competent at guessing the gist without having to be slowed by the laborious task of reading.

her reading comprehension still isn't brilliant and she is a slow reader etc but its better than her single word reading - her dyslexia teacher says that on the reading alone she will be lost at secondary as she will be simply overwhelmed.

without support the teacher assessed her as a 2B ( I know those NC levels again!) which put her I think about 8 NC points behind where she should be.

doing the test of a child a year below her and then having a TA basically do the test for her she magically then is assessed at a 4C which means those 8 NC points disappear and for the first time ever in her academic life she is now on par with her peers! its a miracle! and yet standardised testing puts her at 2nd per centile and about 3 and half years behind her age - hard not to smell a rat really !

now Im in a limbo not knowing if the senco will appear, write a report or what the hell is going to happen but trying to zone that out so I can focus on the task in hand.