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If we know better
What is we must do better?
What is Literacy rates?
Not naturally wired to read. Reading is a complex set of skills that must be explicitly taught.
What is essential to reading?
Finite and can be fully mastered
What is foundational reading skills?
Accepted by no responsible linguist, psychologist, or cognitive scientist in the research community.
What is the idea that learning to read is just like learning to speak?
In fourth and eighth grades, Black, Hispanic, American Indian/Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiin/Other Pacific Islander reading achievement
What is hovering at basic level and none had an average reading score?
To speak and use speech to connect with others and make sense of the world around us.
What is we are all born with the ability to process oral language?
Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness, systemic phonics instruction, and methods to improve fluency.
Concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency.
What are foundational reading skills?
To build students knowledge of the world beyond their scope and to help students make connections from the known to the new. There is no better way to draw children in the the treasures stored in the written word.
What is reading aloud to students?
Students who learn to read effortlessly and with minimal phonics-based instruction.
What is 5%?
Making sense of the things that we see, including written words.
What is we are born to process visual images?
Pre-determined skills are taught directly
What is explicit?
Rooted in overall language comprehension and help students create meaning from text.
What is Knowledge-based competencies?
Many factors contribute to successful comprehension-accurate, fluent word reading, vocabulary knowledge, and the use of strategies to prepare to read and fix up meaning when it breaks down
What is knowledge is the most important contributor?
Percentage of students who require support through explicit and systemic phonics-based instruction. This group represents the average learner who can meet grade-level expectations when provided effective reading instruction.
What is 40-50%?
Building the bridge between the oral language and visual image processing
What is reading instruction?
Skills are taught in a logical progression.
Vocabulary, Background Knowledge, Oral language skills, and Reading comprehension skills.
What are knowledge-based competencies?
What is "It's time that we retire balanced literacy?
Age gap where children's oral language abilities exceed their reading comprehension abilities, meaning children learn more from listening to texts than they do when reading on their own.
What is birth to 13 years?
Teaching two types of competencies: foundational reading skills and knowledge-based competencies.
What is effective reading instruction?
What is phonemic awareness?
Language comprehension and word recognition
What is skilled reading?