Guidance for Phonics Routines

Reading Matters, See

Marking: Engage children with a sense of their own learning. Do they know it? They tick in pencil. Don’t they know it? Circle – understanding that it’s OK not to know something. The teacher will teach you (or teach you again), and you may need more...

Simple View of Reading

Reading Matters, See

(1/5) Skilled reading is the product of decoding AND language comprehension. If kids can’t decode, their comprehension is moot, because they don’t know what the words are. If kids don’t have strong background knowledge/vocab, they won’t understand most of what they...

Scarborough’s Reading Rope

Reading Matters, See

From fb – SoR, What I Should Have Learned in College – comes this neatly simplified way to think of language comprehension. Obvi applies through K-12. More I think about The Rope, more I understand reading acquisition, instruction, need for disciplinary...