Phonemics awareness

phonics

fluency

vocabulary

comprehension

What is it?

"a set of key components that form the foundations of effective reading instruction"

Why is it important? Every aspect of reading falls into a component of the five pillars. They build on each other and together for the tools and components needed to learn to read.

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5 Pillars of Reading

Why is it important? It is the the scientific process and reasoing for effective reading and the learning process of reading.

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Science of Reading

word recognition X language comprehension = reading comprehension

Why is it important? It is the formula that explains how reading is learned and processed.

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Simple View of Reading

Why is it important? it is a basic need to reading and a building block to learning to read.

How is it taught? it can be taught through identifying, blending, and segmenting sounds in words. it can also be done with rhyming activities.

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Phonemic Awareness

Why is it important? it is a key component in learning more difficult words and why and how different sounds and what they can make to come together.

How is it taught?

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Phonological Awareness

Why is it important? It shows the psychological components in a visual manner to explain how we read.

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Reading Rope

Why is it important? Research suggests that we scan every single letter of every word we read. Our brains use what we know about  letter-sound relationships plus our awareness of speech sounds to map letter patterns and words together as units. These units are stored in long-term memory.

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Orthographic Mappin

Why is it important? having an understanding of phonics is the base and building blocks for reading writing and spelling.

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Text book and articles add resource links

Why is it important? The strategies for instruction are key because having a plan and a structure that allows students to build on what they know and how they learn is how all subject matter should be approached.

resources- Text book

why is it important?

Assessment is the key to understanding our students and what they know. It also allows us to see how they learn and to structure our lessons to better meet the learning needs of our students.

resources- Dr. Goodwins Pedagogy book and the text for this class will add links

reading material carefully controlled to use only phonetic elements that a beginning reader has already been taught.

Why is it important? Building a strong base and practicing those elements allows students to create a level of comfort with the tools to build on and explore potential new combinations and create new words and sounds.

Resources- text book will add link

Why is it important? Fluency is the connection between recognizing the words and their meaning.

How is it taught?

repetition, and a strong foundation.

Heart Words- What are they?

a common word that has an irregular spelling that needs to be learned and known by heart. This is shown by finding the irregular part of the word and putting a heart around it.

Sight Words- What are they?

they are words that you can recognize instantly.

High Frequency Words- What are they?

Words that appear most in both spoken and written language. Some examples are "the" "is" "and"

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• Fluency

• heart words

• sight words

• high frequency words

·         Precommunicative stage- Children use letters from the alphabet but show no knowledge of letter sound correspondences. children likely don't know the entire alphabet.

·         Semiphonetic staged- Children start to understand letter sound correspondence. Letter sounds and assignment of these start now.

·         Phonetic stage- Children can use a letter or group of letters to represent speech sound that they hear.

·         Transitional stage- Spellers begin to assimilate the conventional alternative for representing sounds.

·       Correct stage- spellers know common letter sound relationships and generalization for spelling. morphemic information in spelling. students stat to understand how to spell most common prefixes, and suffixes.

Spelling Rules: when used with phonograms can explain most of the english language. These are almost always true when spelling but there is almost always exceptions however.

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Spelling Stages

Spelling Rules

What is it? It is a model that shows the 5 critical strands that contribute to strong writing.

Why is it important? It builds the foundation for strong writing by combining critical thinking, syntax, text structure, writing craft, and transcription.

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Writing Rope

Connections Between Reading and Writing:

They both describe the intertwined skills that make up successful readers and writer. Most of them play into each other and utilize similar components.

Instructional Strategies for Writing: emphasize the process, repetition, allow for a creative environment. provide support.

Assessments for Writing: create an assessment that allows to track growth and potential concerns. Utilize the assessment to structure future lessons

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Connecting the Reading and the Writing Rope

Writing Strategies

Assessments for Writing

a learning disability that is neurobiological. it has to do with deficits in processing phonological ordering.

Why is it important? Knowing that a child struggles with this and providing resources early and often is important.

Caregiver Information on Dyslexia: are any people who are able to directly support a student with their disability.

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• Dyslexia

• What is Dyslexia?

What is it? research based reading instruction method that emphasizes systematic explicit teaching of language.

Why is it important? It allows to follow the science of reading and provide lessons and instruction that are proven effective.

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Structured Literacy

What is it? it is the ability to understand and comprehend and analyze media in its many forms.

Why is it important? media is the majority of language use today it is the primary form of communication.

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Media Literacy

AI Platform for School Districts | MagicSchool

appears to be a resource for teachers that allows assistance on presentations, lesson plans, feedback and much more. This has to potential to decrease burnout and overall workload for teacher. The big downfall is how detrimental AI is on the environment.

Colleague AI | AI-Powered Education Platform for K-12 Teaching & Learning

This appears to be a similar resource for teachers as Magic school. There is the same benefits and the same downfalls as all AI.

Tier 2 words would be high frequency words that are more advanced and may appear in books. some examples would be access, character, culture, intense. These words are essential in most reading material in books that are appropriate for elementary students and although may appear more difficult they are easily identified and spoken by students.

Tier 3 words are low-frequency words that do not appear in normal day to day conversation or reading. They usually are more specific to a certain subject. some examples would be quadrilaterals, ecosystem, protagonist, integer. These words will likely be unknown to students and be a struggle for them to pronounce and use in their daily conversation.

Word sort- I found this resource to be extremely helpful -- Best Practices: Vocabulary Strategies (Word Sort)

-What I have found with my own children is given them words in context through reading. allowing them to find words in a text that interests them and then using the context of the text to help figure it out and even use the word to help them better understand the subject matter.

At the discrete end of the continuum, we have vocabulary treated as a separate subtest or isolated set of words distinct from each word’s role within a larger construct of comprehension, composition, or conceptual application. Alternatively, a purely embedded measure would look at how students operationalize vocabulary in a holistic context and a vocabulary scale might be one measure of the larger construct.

Vocabulary Recognition Task

The Vocabulary Recognition Task (VRT) is a teacher-constructed yes-no task used to estimate vocabulary recognition in a content area (Stahl, 2008). Like the VKS, it combines self-report with demonstrated knowledge. Stahl applied the VRT with second graders reading at a mid-first-grade level. The purpose was to identify content-related words that the students could both read and associate with a unit of study.

In the study, each VRT consisted of a list of 25 words; 18 of the words were related to the content in each of four themed science units and 7 words were unrelated foils. See Figure 3 for a sample VRT comprised of vocabulary associated with the insect unit. Students circled the words that they were able to read and that were related to the topic. As a posttest, students completed the VRT and categorized the selected words under provided headings on a concept web (see Figure 4).

"Realistic fiction is a genre of literature that tells stories that could plausibly happen in real life, featuring believable characters, relatable settings, and plausible events without magical or supernatural elements."

Folktales are stories that have been passed down orally over many years, from generation to generation. They are meant to be fun and exciting!

This may sound very similar to fairy tales, because it is. A fairy tale is a type of folktale, a sub-genre.

Folktales – Types of Texts | Elementary | Alloprof

a great resource I found for online peer review and other tools for the writing process.

Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals

1. Ideas – The core message of the writing. Strong ideas are clear, focused, and supported with relevant details that go beyond the obvious. Writers should provide information that is important and engaging, helping readers visualize the content.

2. Organization – The structure of the writing. This includes a logical sequence, clear beginning, middle, and end, and effective transitions. Well-organized writing guides the reader through the content smoothly and maintains focus on the main idea.

3. Voice – The writer’s unique tone and personality. Voice reflects engagement with the topic and conveys emotion, attitude, and perspective, making the writing feel authentic and compelling.

4. Word Choice – The selection of precise, vivid, and appropriate words. Effective word choice enhances meaning, creates imagery, and strengthens the writer’s message.

5. Sentence Fluency – The rhythm and flow of sentences. Writing should include varied sentence structures, smooth transitions, and readability that allows the text to be easily understood and enjoyable to read.

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6. Conventions – Correct use of grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and paragraphing. Mastery of conventions ensures clarity and helps readers focus on the content rather than errors.

Scholastic

. Presentation – The physical appearance of the writing, including formatting, neatness, and overall visual appeal. Presentation supports readability and professionalism.

These traits are used together to guide instruction, assessment, and revision. Teachers can focus on each trait individually or collectively, helping students develop comprehensive writing skills. The model is adaptable across text types, including narrative, informative, and argumentative writing, and is effective from early grades through high school.

here is a great resource

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