The Simple View of Reading: Decoding X Language= Reading Comprehension.
Students’ brains are not wired to learn how to read. Humans are wired to learn to speak. Young students need systematic phonics. The research is overwhelming. In addition, all students require grade-level reading for the vocabulary, language, syntax and back ground knowledge. Let’s look at the simple steps that will transform your young students into readers.
- Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme blending & segmentation.
- Development of skills in Decoding AND Encoding.
- Orthographic Mapping-Efficient memory for printed words, and rapid sight vocabulary expansion.
- Grade-Level Reading: Teacher Read a louds-State benchmarks-topic-Text-Sets-Building knowledge-Vocabulary-Teacher-student-student-student conversations around rich text.
