Tag: phonological awareness
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What Is Structured Literacy? A Parent-Friendly Guide
Structured literacy is a teaching approach with five specific characteristics, not a single program. Here’s what it actually means, what it isn’t, and how to tell if your kid is getting it.
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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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When a Diagnostic Pretends to Be a Screener
This is the third post in a series. If you started here, you might want Part 1 for the overview of what California and Michigan said about i-Ready, and Part 2 for the line-by-line of Michigan’s review. This one is the personal one. The one where I tell you what i-Ready missed for my own…
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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 is the most dyslexia-sensitive instrument in the standard evaluation battery. It measures the underlying skills that make reading possible: phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming. If dyslexia is on the table for your child,…
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Not All Reading Mistakes Are the Same. Here’s What to Look For
Reading errors are not just mistakes. They’re information. The specific shape of an error, not just that an error happened, tells you something meaningful about what’s happening inside your child’s reading system. And once you know how to look at errors differently, you become a much better advocate for your child.