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Teaching the Reading Rope

Posted on 24th January 202327th May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Decodable Books, Learning to Read, Science of Reading, Uncategorised and tagged Article, beginning readers, blending, decoding, disabilities, early literacy, fluency, how to teach reading, phonemic awareness, Phonics, phonics for sen, phonics program, Science of Reading, special education, structured reading instruction, struggling readersLeave a Comment

Scarboroughs reading rope

Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy (pp. 97-110). New York: Guilford Press. Teaching the Reading Rope The Reading Rope was developed by Dr. Hollis Scarborough to provide a framework for understanding the different…

Can Lucy Calkins’ changing views shift the way millions of children are taught to read?

Posted on 28th October 202023rd May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Science of Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged Article, beginning readers, decodable texts, decode, developing readers#, early literacy, expanding vocablulary, explicit teaching, orthographic mapping, phoneme awareness, Phonics, Science of Reading, structured phonics program, struggling readersLeave a Comment

The news has been spreading that Lucy Calkins, head of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP), has been learning about the Science of Reading and making changes to her guidance and widely used curricula. Throughout her career, she has often characterized phonics as ‘low-level’ work that should be minimized and has promoted top-down…