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Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9: How to build decoding skills to read multisyllabic words

Posted on 10th May 202223rd May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Science of Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged Article, beginning readers, blending, chunking multi-syllable words, decode, flexibility, how to teach multi-syllable words, Institute of Education Sciences, multisyllabic words, Phonics, practice guides, prefixes, reading intervention, routines, spelling instruction, suffixes, teachspelling, US Department of Education, vocabularyLeave a Comment

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the US Department of Education periodically issues free practice guides for teachers. They convene a panel, review the research, and formulate general recommendations based on the evidence. What I like about these practice guides is that they are concise, accessible, and practical. The goal is not to get…

To script or not to script?

Posted on 29th March 202223rd May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics and tagged Article, balanced literacy, beginning readers, flexibility, Planning, scope and sequence, scripting, structured literacy, systemactic phonics, systematic instructionLeave a Comment

What do you think of when you hear the word “scripted” pop up in conversations about teaching reading? For some teachers, the associations are negative. They may think of mindless robotic lesson delivery that strips teachers of their autonomy and creativity and turns them into zombies. The word can trigger worries about limitations in the…