Tag: phonemic awareness
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i-Ready Scored 50% in Michigan’s K-3 Screener Review. Here’s the Line-by-Line.
This is the deep dive. If you want the higher-level take on what California and Michigan said about i-Ready as a reading screener, start with Part 1 of the series. Then come back here for the receipts. In December 2025, the Michigan Department of Education completed its consensus scoring of the i-Ready Assessment under MCL…
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Two States Just Said i-Ready Doesn’t Cut It as a Reading Screener
If you’ve been on parent Facebook lately, you’ve probably seen the i-Ready takes piling up. Kids hate it. Parents hate it. Teachers were quietly recruited as spokesmodels and didn’t know what they were signing up for. The data showing it actually moves reading scores is, charitably, thin. But almost every one of those posts ends…
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Decoding What Your Child’s School Is Actually Telling You: From Vague Labels to Real Information
Schools use vague labels like “struggles with phonemic awareness” in IEP meetings, but most parents don’t know what those terms actually mean. Here’s how to decode the jargon and ask the right follow-up questions so you can actually understand what’s going on with your child’s reading.
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7 Reading Skills Your First Grader Should Have, and How to Check Tonight
First grade is the most important year for learning to read. Not because of the curriculum. Because of the window. A landmark study found that 88% of children who were poor readers at the end of first grade were still poor readers in fourth grade. Not most of them. Nearly all of them. This isn’t…