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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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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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.