 Science of Teaching Reading Explained for Families l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities Blog The reading scores of American children have remained about the same for over 40 years! Each year, the NAEP data shows about 35% of 4th graders are proficient in reading. This is unacceptable. But what can we do??? When we know better, we do better! When we know better, we do better! Research tells us that even though learning to read is harder for some students than others, with evidence-based reading instruction, the majority of our students can become proficient readers by the end of 3rd grade. This research is called the Science of Reading. The Science of Reading is our WHY. It drives our decision-making for policies and to strengthen our instruction and assessments of reading. What is the Science of Reading?“The body of work referred to as the “science of reading” is not an ideology, a philosophy, a political agenda, a one-size-fits-all approach, a program of instruction, nor a specific component of instruction. It is the emerging consensus from many related disciplines, based on literally thousands of studies, supported by hundreds of millions of research dollars, conducted across the world in many languages. These studies have revealed a great deal about how we learn to read, what goes wrong when students don’t learn, and what kind of instruction is most likely to work the best for the most students.” So what has changed in the way we teach reading?
Our families are our partners in teaching our students to learn to read. So let's teach them about the Science of Reading! Share this knowledge with your families by grabbing this resource!  Science of Reading Handout Explained for Parents in English and Spanish l Miss Rae's Room Teachers Pay Teachers Store Happy and Healthy Teaching!
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 5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities Well, first let’s start with some background knowledge. What is the Science of Reading??? The Science of Reading is 20 plus years of reading research, and it gives teachers the best strategies for teaching students to read based on research of how the brain learns to read.  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities Our brains are wired to speak, but not to read. We have been speaking for over 100,000 years, but we have not been reading and writing for that long. The first writing systems were invented about 10,000 years ago. Alphabetic writing (so when we changed from drawings to express stories to letters to convey words) evolved about 5,000 years ago.  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities The Science of Reading research, provides an evidence-based best practice approach for teaching foundational literacy skills called Structured Literacy. Structured Literacy emphasizes a purposeful, direct, systematic, and explicit reading and language arts instructional framework for instructing students to decipher words in prints and to focus on the goal of reading, which is to learn, enjoy, and comprehend text, through individualized instruction, informed by deliberate assessment.  Structured Literacy Checklist FREEBIE l 5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities -The Simple View of Reading looks at reading like a math equation: Decoding x Linguistic/Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension -There are 5 Pillars of Reading: Phonemic Awareness, Alphabetic Principle, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension, all integral to the… -3 Layers of Reading Development: 1 - letters and sounds, 2 - phonic decoding, 3 - orthographic mapping  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities What are advanced phonemic awareness skills? Early phonemic awareness are the skills typically develop in preschoolers and include rhyming (e.g. sit, pit, lit), alliteration (e.g. the cute cat can cry), being able to segment words into syllables (e.g. /syll/ /a/ /bles/), and being able to identify the first sounds in words. Basic phonemic awareness skills are typically developed throughout kindergarten and first grade. Basic phonemic awareness skills include phoneme blending and phoneme segmentation. These basic skills are instrumental in phonic decoding and early spelling.
Advanced phonemic awareness skills are the skills typically developed by about third or fourth grade. Advanced phonemic awareness skills include the ability to manipulate phonemes, such as
AND they are required for proficient reading. This means that phonemic awareness skills must be explicitly taught. Students must be able to achieve mastery of advanced phonemic awareness skills to be able to proficiently read.  5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities Orthographic Mapping is the formation of letter-sound connections to bond the spellings and pronunciations of specific words in memory It explains how student brains memorize how words look-sound. The process we use to store printed words in long-term memory is the third level of reading development called orthographic mapping. Orthographic mapping is the efficient expansion of sight vocabularies, requiring letter-sound skills and advanced phonological awareness skills. Research has demonstrated that orthographic mapping is the most efficient strategy for moving word patterns into long-term memory for students, thus increasing a student’s sight word vocabulary.  Orthographic Mapping Strategy Sequence l 5 Things to Know about the Science of Reading l Miss Rae's Room Teaching Reading to Students with Learning Disabilities Get this instructional sequence AND grab my FREE Phoneme Grapheme Mapping Board by clicking HERE! Happy and Healthy Teaching! Peace, Miss Rae Learn more...
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