Reading Matters

The Decoding Dragon will keep you safe from that horrible Guessing Monster! I love this from @lifelonglit

Love this from @markseidenberg. Always go back to it when colleagues try to downplay the importance of phonics.

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 practice.

(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...

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 literacy in...

Finished up our Vowel Valley!!! Moving on to the consonants next! @tools4reading @ELCSouth_KISD @KellerSped #kidlips #phoneme #grapheme

The #LadderOfReading brilliantly illustrates how #StructuredLiteracy benefits ALL children: “The portion along the far right notes that even the children at the top of the heap benefit from systematic instruction. Everyone does better. That is a critical message." —...

Sound walls for teacher learning? Check! This sound wall created by reading specialist Tambra Isenberg was created for teachers & details the vowel valley sounds & corresponding graphemes- note how she added the frequency/percentages of the sound-spellings....