Tag: decoding
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IEP Reading Goals: Measurable Examples for Dyslexia and Struggling Readers
A strong IEP reading goal names the exact skill, starting point, materials or conditions, target performance, measurement method, and deadline. “Will improve reading” is not measurable. “Given a controlled word list containing taught one- and two-syllable patterns, the student will read 45 of 50 words accurately across three consecutive weekly probes by the annual review…
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TOWRE-2 Explainer
A Parent Field Guide TOWRE-2: What parents actually need to know. Test of Word Reading Efficiency, Second Edition The TOWRE-2 is the test that asks one question: how fast can your child read words against the clock? Not how accurately. Not how comprehensively. Just speed and automaticity. In dyslexia evaluation, that question is the one…
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CTOPP-2 Explainer
A Parent Field Guide CTOPP-2: What parents actually need to know. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, Second Edition The CTOPP-2 measures three phonological-processing skills closely related to reading development: phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. It can add important evidence when dyslexia or another reading difficulty is being evaluated, but the results must be…
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Phonics Fixed Everything… Right? Why Reading Is Bigger Than Decoding
Over the past five years, we’ve heard a lot about the “science of reading” and phonics. It’s been the big fix, the magic bullet, the thing that was going to transform struggling readers everywhere. And phonics absolutely matters. But here’s what nobody told you: phonics is necessary but it’s not sufficient.
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The Reading Strategy You’ve Never Heard Of (But Should Absolutely Be Using)
If you’ve watched your child decode a word perfectly during flashcard-style practice and then completely fall apart when that same word shows up in a sentence, you are not imagining things. And you’ve probably been told the same thing over and over: just have them read more. More books. More time. More practice. Here’s the…