When our students start intervention, many of them are only comfortable reading simple texts or are not comfortable reading at all. This means they do not have as much familiarity with the structure of written language as their peers. Most of our students read sentences or decodable stories at the end of each lesson. This gives us the perfect opportunity to talk about sentence structure.
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What is Structured Literacy?
Literacy support for students with dyslexia has been under development for over 100 years. Back in the 1920s, a pathologist named Samuel Orton tried to figure out why some children with average and above average intelligence experienced language difficulties similar to his adult patients with brain damage. Since he thought that their left and rightContinue reading “What is Structured Literacy?”
Decodable Texts: They might sound strange, but…
Decodable texts certainly aren’t perfect, but they are an essential component of reading instruction.
More than Sounds
English is not as illogical as many people think, but it often seems illogical when meaning-related patterns are not included in literacy instruction.
Developing Readers 