Understand the differences between Structured Literacy and Balanced Literacy to set every student up for reading success.

Structured Literacy teaches components of reading and literacy that are essential for students at all tiers to learn how to read.

As students practice and apply their decoding skills and learn new red words, their recognition of patterns, positions, and rules will boost their sight word reading.

In 2016, the International Dyslexia Association coined the term Structured Literacy as a category for evidence-based approaches of explicit instruction, such as Orton-Gillingham, synthetic phonics, phonics-based reading instruction, and systematic reading instruction.

Our Commitment to Evidence-Based Reading Instruction: Aligning Instruction with the Science of Reading Using Structured Literacy

Over decades, by examining factors such as phonological awareness, decoding skills, vocabulary acquisition, and comprehension strategies, interdisciplinary researchers have tried to identify exactly what separates proficient and struggling readers. The results of their efforts are collected in a body of…

In literacy, oral language development stands as the cornerstone upon which proficient reading skills are built. Oral language development refers to the development of the skills needed to properly listen, speak, and comprehend spoken words.

Comprehension is the very impetus that compels us to read.

Vocabulary is pivotal to reading success.

Fluency in early literacy refers to a child’s capacity to read text accurately, quickly, and smoothly while conveying meaning effectively.

Phonics is the understanding that letters make sounds and that those sounds can be combined to form words

Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words, and it’s a key skill for learning to read.

This six-part blog series will dive deep into each essential component of literacy instruction.