Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?
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The Simple View of Reading
The training the principals were doing used a curriculum written by Louisa Moats. The curriculum is called Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, or Letters for Short. Research shows when kids are explicitly taught how letters represent phonemes, they become better readers. Kids can learn to decode words without knowing what the words mean. To comprehend what they're reading, kids need a good vocabulary too.
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