Tag: structured literacy
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Writing Is the Reading Skill Nobody’s Talking About
A landmark meta-analysis from Graham and Hebert (2011) showed something that should have changed every reading curriculum in America but mostly didn’t: writing about what you read significantly improves comprehension. Not a little. Significantly.
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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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Where Did All the Books Go? What’s Actually in Your Kid’s Reading Curriculum
Remember when reading class meant reading a book? Not a two-page excerpt with a worksheet stapled to it. Not a passage pulled from some basal reader anthology. A book. A whole book. Something with a spine and pages you could turn and a story that unfolded over time. If you’re feeling nostalgic about that right…
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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…