Reading to your children will not teach them how to read. But reading to your children will help them to develop oral language & vocabulary & syntactic knowledge which will be essential for the development of their reading comprehension.

Today we read the book That's Not My Name - each student got to say their name to their classmates to ensure we are all saying them correctly. Respecting our uniqueness. We then recognized which Capital our name should go under - spelling out their name to us. #Kindergarten

"Teaching whole word memorization is limited, and learning phonics empowers students with an exponential effect." Institute for Multi-Sensory Education

A reader must be accurate before becoming automatic. There is no automaticity without accuracy.-EdWeb

Kindergarten students starting the day with table-top learning activities! Barstow Elementary

Great example of a well-paced, explicit phonics lesson…that begins with skill targeted phonemic awareness! 👏

Part #3 Open/Closed Syllables. Applying our learning to irregular words…for now. 👉Concretely showing why it’s an open syllable 👉Reviewing the vowel sound 👉Decoding the word ⁦Science of Reading Classroom⁩ #decoding #opensyllables #knowbetterdobetter

Saturday we welcomed Kathy B back to Calvertela! 😀 Our learning focused on intentional instruction using high quality read aloud text. Kathy

We need more Henry Winklers in this world….💙

OK! Now the reporters at CNN are following the lead of Emily Hanford and sharing the "news" about failing reading programs in U.S. schools! This should get some attention!

We appreciate that you share your instructional routines as you apply your LETRS learning!

After reviewing that all sentences need a WHO & DO, we discussed making them more complex with a WHAT. We’ve been working with who & do for several months. It took us this long to be writing independently in K. Lots of scaffolding prior to this. 2/3 Science of Reading Classroom

I’m honored to be speaking about the writing research and classroom implications for The Reading League Kansas I hope to see you there. The Reading League Maryland Know Better Do Better ARI / The Alabama Reading Initiative, ALSDE

Auditory & Visual drills for letter-sound correspondence Visual ✅Show letter ✅Ask: What letter? What sound? Auditory ✅Say letter sound ✅Ss write the letter ✅Ss say letter name Science of Reading Classroom #kindergarten #letters #sounds #automaticity

Fluency at the Phrase level! Letter/Sounds✅ Decoding onset/rime✅ Automaticity with ❤️ words✅ We are now working on reading phrases! 1st read: Independent 2nd & 3rd: Choral 4th: Partner Science of Reading Classroom

Students from Huntingtown Elementary School participating in the Read to Animals event at Freedom Hill Horse Rescue. HtownESCCPS