The poor get poorer and the rich get richer with the “Matthew effect” in much of the reading instruction provided to students (skills & strategies). @natwexler explains why building background knowledge is essential to creating good readers.
What is happening in classrooms is not adequately preparing the majority of students to read. An awareness of this reality is growing, the initial push for dyslexia legislation has morphed into efforts to exact changes to address this larger issue. https://t.co/5Tt7zs3vMm
Connected Phonation is More Effective than Segmented Phonation for Teaching Beginning Readers to Decode Unfamiliar Words | Reading Rockets #juneogplus2021 https://t.co/PjnHuaxbT3