| The Nuts
and Bolts of Reading Instruction and How Parents Can Help |
| Center Elementary School, November 18, 2008 |
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| We now understand more about the reading
process and its underpinnings than ever
before, thanks to 35 years of exhaustive and
sophisticated studies, including brain and
eye movement studies. With the help of Sally
Grimes, a consultant skilled in this area,
we have come to understand even more deeply
the development of our young readers. In
this podcast, Sally provides a simple, brief
overview of state-of-the-art reading
instruction. She explains how the five
components of reading work together. She
discusses how the foundational skills of
phonemic awareness, phonics and fluency work
with vocabulary development and
comprehension skill building.
The
presentation offers ideas to caregivers for
helping children and for recognizing the
“red flags” that might indicate difficulty
with learning to read. Since we can now
predict with approximately 92% accuracy
those children who will struggle in grade
three, it is more important than ever to
monitor the progress of children in K-3 who
may not be meeting nationally accepted
benchmarks and then take action to prevent
failure. The presentation talk very briefly
discusses such progress monitoring.
 More
about Sally Grimes and the Grimes Reading
Institute
This presentation is geared toward
caregivers of children ages 5-10 and/or
struggling readers. |
