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Sometimes reading struggles don't start to really appear until upper elementary. This is a red flag about the quality of instruction students received in early elementary. When we get literacy right in Kindergarten and 1st, we make a HUGE impact in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and beyond. Here's what the research says we need to be doing: 1. Explicit phonics instruction that follows a scope & sequence. This should be cumulative and embedded in the books students are actually practicing learning to read with. Explicit instruction in morphology, spelling, and grammar/syntax is so important too! "Gains from a great, and mostly free comprehensive phonics program (UFLI) are equivalent to 8 moths of additional instruction for kindergartners, and almost a year-and-a-half extra instruction for 1st graders." 2. Solid knowledge building content! Students need science and social studies in depth and breadth to gain the knowledge needed for the reading comprehension required of more advanced texts. The recent NAEP score drop continues to be abysmal, and Natalie Wexler mentions in her most recent blog post that it's important to remember NAEP is a test of reading COMPREHENSION. If student's aren't exposed to rich content and aligned writing instruction, reading comprehension will continue to suffer. Both of these pieces (1. Decoding & 2. Language Comprehension) are foundational pieces of the simple view of reading. We need to be using structured literacy practices and materials to explicitly teach decoding from sounds to syllables to morphology as well as to encoding to really solidify that automaticity! We also need to be intentional about vocab and background knowledge in addition to things like grammar/sentence structure! #scienceofreading #sor #nataliewexler #4thgradeslump #literacyandjusticeforall #untileveryonecanread #decoding #languagecomprehension #slp #readingcomprehension #structuredliteracy #phonics #supportallreaders #righttoread #readingisacivilright #naepscores #nationsreportcard #education
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Sometimes reading struggles don't start to really appear until upper elementary. This is a red flag about the quality of instruction students received in early elementary. When we get literacy right in Kindergarten and 1st, we make a HUGE impact in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and beyond. Here's what the research says we need to be doing: 1. Explicit phonics instruction that follows a scope & sequence. This should be cumulative and embedded in the books students are actually practicing learning to read with. Explicit instruction in morphology, spelling, and grammar/syntax is so important too! "Gains from a great, and mostly free comprehensive phonics program (UFLI) are equivalent to 8 moths of additional instruction for kindergartners, and almost a year-and-a-half extra instruction for 1st graders." 2. Solid knowledge building content! Students need science and social studies in depth and breadth to gain the knowledge needed for the reading comprehension required of more advanced texts. The recent NAEP score drop continues to be abysmal, and Natalie Wexler mentions in her most recent blog post that it's important to remember NAEP is a test of reading COMPREHENSION. If student's aren't exposed to rich content and aligned writing instruction, reading comprehension will continue to suffer. Both of these pieces (1. Decoding & 2. Language Comprehension) are foundational pieces of the simple view of reading. We need to be using structured literacy practices and materials to explicitly teach decoding from sounds to syllables to morphology as well as to encoding to really solidify that automaticity! We also need to be intentional about vocab and background knowledge in addition to things like grammar/sentence structure! #scienceofreading #sor #nataliewexler #4thgradeslump #literacyandjusticeforall #untileveryonecanread #decoding #languagecomprehension #slp #readingcomprehension #structuredliteracy #phonics #supportallreaders #righttoread #readingisacivilright #naepscores #nationsreportcard #education

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