The Nation’s Report Card shows that reading scores went down five points. What should we do? groupcentered.com/reading-blog/t…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) just released the first set of scores for 2022. They are not good. #Reading groupcentered.com/reading-blog/t…

According to the Nation’s Report Card in 2022, “The score difference between students attending suburban schools and students attending city schools narrowed in reading between 2020 and 2022….” groupcentered.com/reading-blog/t…

How you interpret "the science of reading" depends on how you think of "science": Part III languageliteracy.blog/2022/08/31/how… via Mark Anderson

The National Center for Education Statistics released the first set of scores for 2022. They are not good. What does a mean for children in the classroom? #reading groupcentered.com/reading-blog/t…

What does science have to say about the role of the oral language system in teaching students to read? groupcentered.com/reading-blog/t…

Neuroimaging research shows that phonics does not teach letter-sound relationships in the same way that the brain processes them. Phonics focuses on letters; the brain focuses on sounds. groupcentered.com/reading-blog/t…

Research shows that teaching letter sounds and connecting to the oral language system was much more effective for teaching students to read than phonics. I have also found this to be true in my own research with vowel clustering. groupcentered.com/reading-blog/t…

Vowel clustering teaches students to decode and encode letter sounds to pronounce and read words. Children are taught to sound words out letter by letter or by sound cluster instead of guessing. groupcentered.com/reading-blog/w…

With vowel clustering, a student started at the pre-K level and ended the year reading at the third-grade level, while a second grader started the year reading below first grade and ended at the fourth-grade level. groupcentered.com/reading-blog/w…

Reading scores dropped from a score of 220 in 2020 to 215 in 2022—a five-point drop. COVID is not the only problem. The 2020 scores are not the first drop in reading scores. Look at 2019 before COVID—a two-point drop. groupcentered.com/reading-blog/i…

The vowel clustering method uses a vowel center where children learn to match words with the letter sounds, therefore emphasizing the letter sound relationship and helping children to build and connect the sounds with their oral filing system. groupcentered.com/reading-blog/i…

“In the juvenile court system, 85% of adolescents and youth seen by the courts are classified as functionally illiterate and unable to read." groupcentered.com/reading-blog/i…

New ACT scores show decline. Graduating seniors dropped to a 30-year low. Who is to blame? Read carefully. #ACTScores groupcentered.com/reading-blog/a…

#ACT is reporting the lowest scores since 1991. Why? Officials say the problem is not COVID. groupcentered.com/reading-blog/a…

ACT College Admission Scores Drop to 30-Year Low—the 5th consecutive year of decline. Why? groupcentered.com/reading-blog/a…

groupcentered.com/reading-blog/a… New ACT scores show decline. Graduating seniors dropped to a 30-year low. COVID is not the biggest problem. #LearningLoss

Several interesting posts these past few days.

Yes, we can teach all students to read, but we probably won’t. The schools will not change. Politicians will not change. The students will continue to fail when a solution is right at our fingertips. #Reading #ReadingScores groupcentered.com/reading-blog/n…

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that the drop in test scores could not be “…solely attributed to the pandemic.” groupcentered.com/reading-blog/n…