This summer I worked with a rising kindergartener. I was impressed that he knew all his letter names and could write his name all before entering school. He could even repeat back a familiar book that his mother had read to him. However, I soon discovered he could not read actual words yet. Why not? Because he had not yet learned how to decode, or recognize unfamiliar words. Together we strengthened the underlying skills needed to read, and we explicitly practiced decoding. B

that don't take long at all.... As reading specialists and special education teachers, we know that no two readers are alike. In any given group, you’ll have students who are decoding fluently but struggle with comprehension, others who still need phonics instruction, and a few who are just learning to attend to print. Differentiating reading lessons can feel overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be. The key is to plan small, manageable adjustments that target student needs wit

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Why the Orton-Gillingham approach? Teachers get into teaching because they want to help, but we often don’t have the training on how. ...