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The summer slide is the loss of knowledge and skills experienced over the summer break when students are not engaged in active learning. While this up to 20% loss can make the return to school difficult for any student, it is even more difficult to overcome for students with reading difficulties.

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The California Reading Summit brings together leaders in improving reading results in California to share successes and struggles, and help chart the course to move our state forward.

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“State legislatures, which have been getting an earful from dyslexia activists for years, have begun to act. From 2013 to Aug. 1, 30 states have passed laws or enacted new policies related to “evidence-based” reading instruction. Mississippi was one of the first, and in 2019 it became the only state in the nation to meaningfully improve its fourth-grade reading scores. The results were touted as the “Mississippi Miracle.”

The Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read “A lot of times the teachers have no idea that they’re not teaching things that are beneficial to the kids”

“Using these high-quality instructional materials and the approaches supported by the evidence-based science of reading has been a great equalizer for teachers and students alike. Intervention group sizes have dwindled as explicit and systematic reading instruction has been made accessible to all students.”

Curriculum Case Study: How Grade-Level Literacy Doubled in Just 2 Months in a Rural Tennessee District This is the first in a series of three articles from a Knowledge Matters Campaign tour of school districts in Tennessee spotlighting the impact of the state’s investment in training all teachers in the science of reading. The rural district of Elizabethton City Schools was designated a “Reading ...

“But [Thurmond], who is running for reelection, was clear that as long as he’s in charge, California won’t follow the lead of other states — adopting a statewide literacy policy that prioritizes phonics, the connections between letter sounds and written words.”

“Overall, 37 percent of the state’s fourth-graders score below the basic level on federal reading tests. The average score for Hispanic students is 27 points below that of white students, and the gap between Black and white students is even larger.”

Amid Literacy Crisis, CA Ed Chief Rejects Phonics-Driven Approach to Reading California Superintendent Tony Thurmond issued a challenge to the state’s school districts last week to ensure third graders become strong readers by 2026. “We’re asking you to take a pledge today,” he said during the May 20 Zoom session, providing a link for participants to sign. Other elem...

Myth of the Natural Reader:

Some children seem to turn magically into readers, without deliberate phonics coaching. That has helped fuel a mistaken belief that reading is as natural as speaking. In fact, functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrates that humans process written language letter by letter, sound by sound. Far from being automatic, reading requires a rewiring of the brain, which is primed by evolution to recognize faces, not words.

Lucy Calkins Retreats on Phonics in Fight Over Reading Curriculum - The New York Times Fight Over How Teach Reading, This Guru Makes Major Retreathttps www.nytimes.com 2022 reading teaching curriculum phonics.htmlGive this article1968AdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyIn the Fight Over How Teach Reading,...

Decodable Readers — Omnibus Literacy  Decodable Readers Free Decodable Readers Beyond Decodables Beyond Decodables aim to support young readers’ success in reading by allowing children the chance to decode words in a meaningful context. READ NOW Carissa Taylor: Decodable Readers This is a master list of all of the free decodable pho...