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Students read and write more when they are given a choice. If students have the opportunity to choose what to read and write, they are more likely to be engaged.

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One main take away from this article is that every primary- grade teacher should be equipped with several effective decoding approaches because no single approach works for every student.

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One main take away from this article is that each teacher should offer the students with choice in what they read. This will motivate the student.

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Our classrooms should help students foster a love of reading. This should be the focus of instruction, rather than test-preparation activities, which do not help to improve reading proficiency.

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When students write about what they care about, they will use correct grammar, so their ideas will be heard and understood.

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A main take away from this article is having students engaging in literacy conversation based on their own reading and writing.

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It is important to provide students with choice in their reading. If a student is interested in a topic, they will likely choose to read a book about that topic. This is a way to engage students and make them more interested in reading.

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Reading for meaning is so important when reading. Often times struggling readers get so caught up in basic skills rather than looking at the bigger idea in what is being read.

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“Fostering phonemic awareness is a critical aspect of emergent literacy development"

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“Fostering phonemic awareness is a critical aspect of emergent literacy development"

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When students are able to write about something they enjoy and care about they use conventions of spelling and grammar because their story is important to them and they want their ideas to be communicated correctly

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"US schools will not deliver high-quality lessons if there is a continued reliance on paraprofessionals to deliver reading lessons in intervention programs"

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Every child needs inventive writing activity and explicit phonics instruction. Struggling readers need to be reading on the level based on their needs.

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Young children need to become engaged readers.

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Lessons should be meaning focused, not skill focused for struggling readers. 

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Lessons should be meaning focused, not skill focused for struggling readers. 

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Read aloud to your students every day!

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“effective early decoding proficiencies is an essential task of primary-grade teachers” (p. 522).

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students should be reading and rereading stories and texts that they find engaging and comprehensible in order to develop the ability to read

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"Inventive spelling activity simultaneously develops phonemic awareness and promotes understanding of the alphabetic principle"

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It is important that every child reads accurately. The goal of reading is to comprehend text. When students read accurately they will gain confidence and learn to love reading.

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Choice

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Appropriate time and purpose.