Structured literacy
Explore insights from thought leaders and resources to help you bridge knowledge and practice as you bring structured literacy to your school or district.
Preventing summer learning loss: Strategies for teachers and parents
Summer presents challenges and opportunities for literacy learning for students of all ages. In this blog post, we examine the research over several decades on summer learning loss to find where there is consensus. We offer several strategies for educators and parents to leverage the opportunities for learning that summer presents. We encourage teachers to adopt a year-round prevention mindset, and common language and routines across grades and tiers. And we look at success stories from three school districts that have implemented structured literacy and seen students sustain learning through the summer and into the next school year. We offer both teachers and parents a range of resources from webinars to books to help them sustain and grow their own learning.
There is one result that replicates consistently across every test that I’ve ever looked at. It’s so obvious that it’s easy to overlook, but it’s still important: nearly all children, no matter how advantaged, learn much more slowly during summer vacations than they do during the school years.
Paul T. von Hippel Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
What is structured literacy? An introduction for educators
Many people have asked me, ‘How do I do the science of reading?’ Here’s my answer,” Stewart said. ‘You can’t really DO the science of reading because the science of reading is a body of research that informs our practice. But structured literacy is an instructional approach designed to enact the science of reading research.’
Laura Stewart Chief Academic Officer
The ultimate guide to morphological awareness
Morphological awareness is something you can learn right along with your students. The more you teach it, the more confident you will feel, and the more you will include morphology in your vocabulary and spelling lessons.
Dr. Deb Glaser Author of the Reading Teacher’s Top Ten Tools: Instruction That Makes a Difference
Spotlight North Carolina: Phonics instruction takes root
I’ve worked with a lot of vendors over the years. Hands down, the best customer service we’ve received. We send a text or an email asking a question, and within 24 hours we have always gotten help. That doesn’t happen with other vendors. 95 Percent Group comes in, watches our teachers, and offers feedback or helps teach lessons. It’s not just part of the marketing, they actually do what they say they will do.
Lutashia Dove, EdD Director of elementary programs and pre-K, Edgecombe County Public Schools
Phonics instruction is far from dull and dreary. Children love to learn about words and their hidden properties and patterns.
Laura Stewart
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80%
of early elementary teachers still encourage students to use pictures or context clues to identify unfamiliar words.
One of the most effective tools that we’re using in Fulton County Schools is 95 Phonics Core Reading Program. That has been a game changer for our students and for our teachers. Honestly, if I tried to remove that program from our teachers’ hands these days, they would fight me. And when I go into classrooms, I see students learning at levels that they haven’t learned in previous years. It’s truly been transformational.
Mike Looney, PhD
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