I’ve been thinking about how phonics and blending instruction centers on the teacher. And how phonics is hard sometimes. This is partly a function of self-directed vs. teacher directed learning. In terms of work, teacher directed learning is harder for both student and teacher. At least much of the time. Teacher directed learning has become …
An Example Reading Intervention for First Graders based on the Science of Reading When I came to my elementary school at Christmas of 2022 I began working with the students right away using a phonics based method, along with fluency and comprehension exercises (vocabulary wasn’t part of the curriculum). This intervention was designed based on …
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We have been talking in the intervention office this year about “high rep kids.” These are students who will become fluent readers but only after doing high repetition drills (like phonics drills for letter-sound knowledge or CVC nonsense word drills for blending). There seems to be very little information about this phenomenon on the web. …
