
At a Loss for Words: What's Wrong with How Schools Teach Reading
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How to Be a Good Reader
Margaret Goldberg is a literacy coach in Oakland, California. She was hired to teach something called LLI that stands for leveled literacy intervention. It's a found to some penel approach to help struggling readers and it teaches queuing. On the same time, Margaret went to a training in a program that uses a different approach. The program is called Systematic Instruction in Phonological Awareness, Phonics, and Site Words (SIPS) After just a few months her SIPS phonics students were doing better. So she stopped teaching LLI and the queuing that goes with it.
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