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.
Two-thirds of US students are unable to read at grade level, which is why state legislatures are now mandating that schools implement evidence-based alternatives to ineffective literacy approaches. IMSE’s newest edition of Decodable Readers sets out to equip teachers eagerly…
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.