The instructor should discuss why the errors were made with the learner after the reading. Adults are often very insightful about their own strengths and weaknesses in reading. Sight words Sentence patterns Organization of meaning The Initial Assessment Pack available from the Literacy and Continuing Education Branch provides additional ideas about how to conduct a reading assessment. An effective way to determine how well a learner is writing and spelling is to have the learner write about something that is very familiar to him or her. Appendix B includes examples of other topics that you may want to suggest.
All learners have preferred ways of taking in information that they want to understand and learn.
Some people prefer to see information, others to hear it, and still others to experience it through muscle movement. Learners with a visual preference may feel that they need to see it on paper, or read about the information before they can understand it. Learners with an auditory style will often need to talk about the information, or say it aloud in order to learn. Learners with a motor style need to do any activity that involves muscle movement in order to learn something. They like to write out spelling words, or take things apart in order to learn how they work.