The 5 Pillars of Successful Reading Instruction Infographic presents the five essential components of successful reading instruction.
An in-depth summary of the National Reading Panel (NRP) and its findings regarding the 5 Pillars of Reading instruction.
The Pillars of Literacy provide a comprehensive framework for developing strong reading skills. They include five key areas for instruction.
A look at the 5 pillars of reading, what the NRP findings said about each of these areas, and some classroom connections. I also highlight some of the post-NRP information that's related to their findings, while still holding true to the five pillars of reading. Finally, much of the NRP report has been misconstrued and contested, I identify why and have included links for further reading at the end.
Discover lessons that foster reading skills through the 5 Pillars of Literacy: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Fluency. These comprehensive lessons provide a balanced literacy approach, ensuring students read accurately and with comprehension.
This is the schedule guide you’ve been looking for! There are FIVE different schedules for both 90 minute and 120 minute literacy blocks. Each one offers a very different way...
Do your students love dinosaurs and need to practice sight words? This high frequency word game contains 90 sight words. There is a lightening clue for irregular words compared to words that can be sounded out and words that can be blended. This is great for practicing sight words especially for the crazy dinosaur obsessed class! Check out the preview to see what is included. There is an extra SURPRISE! Simply print, laminate, and cut apart. The students choose a word and try to read it. Then record words on 1 of 2 recording sheets. There is a parent note to explaining the beginnings of reading irregular words. You might also be interested in: Letter Picture Dynamite Dominoes Blending &Segmenting Phonemic Awareness Blending Puzzles and Dibels Practice Fun! Your satisfaction is my TOP priority!! If you have any questions or concerns, please email me. [email protected] I will help you in any way possible! or just drop a note to say hi! FEEDBACK I truly appreciate feedback. It helps me decide which products are most helpful and valuable for your students. The feedback you provide helps me make my products better to suit your needs. If there is anything that you might need or want to make your job easier, just let me know! Customer Tips: 1. How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. I value your feedback greatly.☺ 2. Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and products: • click here to become a follower. Magically! You will now receive customized email updates about this store. Hugs, Debora ©TeachMagically™ Permission is granted to original purchasers to reproduce material as designated only for their own classroom use. No other part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.
Back-to-school time is perfect to share infographics like this one. The visual was created by Texthelp, the company that provides literacy support solutions to students and educators in schools and…
An in-depth summary of the National Reading Panel (NRP) and its findings regarding the 5 Pillars of Reading instruction.
Have you ever thought about the core reading pillars of your reading instruction? Come read about mine and how I identified them!
The 5 Pillars of Successful Reading Instruction Infographic presents the five essential components of successful reading instruction.
Here's what you need to know to choose a literacy program to meet your child's needs, your homeschool style, and is backed by reading science.
Unlock secrets to effective instruction in this comprehensive guide! Learn instructional strategies to support the five pillars of literacy.
We all know how important phonics instruction is. It is a pillar in the 5 pillars of reading, it’s integrated into Scarborough’s Reading Rope, and it is heavily supported by research when it comes to how the brain learns to read. Phonics instruction is both explicit and systematic, but that doesn’t equal boring! We need […]
Morphology instruction is a powerful strategy for improving vocabulary and comprehension. This post shares several morphology activities.
Wondering how to structure your middle school language arts daily schedule? Here's the planning template I developed to find my ideal stride!
Morphology instruction is a powerful strategy for improving vocabulary and comprehension. This post shares several morphology activities.
This blog post will help provide you with tools and strategies for engaging struggling readers and writers in your classroom. As a high school English teacher, I teach students how to read literature and write essays. In fact, reading and writing form half of the four major pillars of ELA instruction: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. And while it is essential to engage of the learners in our classrooms, those who need help with reading and writing might be less willing to engage in classroom discussions.
Reading for fluency is such an important part of upper elementary school.. Here are some of my favorite strategies for increasing fluency.
Did you know that 38% of grade four students have reading abilities below the lowest basic level as determined by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? The NAEP is the only ongoing…
We have been talking a lot about words that are pebbles and words that are ROCKS. A word that is a pebble does not tip the scale like a rock...
We all know how important phonics instruction is. It is a pillar in the 5 pillars of reading, it’s integrated into Scarborough’s Reading Rope, and it is heavily supported by research when it comes to how the brain learns to read. Phonics instruction is both explicit and systematic, but that doesn’t equal boring! We need […]
For ideas about how to teach each of these comprehension strategies in a "primary-friendly" way, keep reading!
The first week is (almost) finished and I thought I’d share some of our highlights! It has been great getting to know my students, and I am looking forward to getting into even more routine next week. What did we do? Check it out… My goal for the first week of school is to start […]
In this post, I go over a variety of small group reading options like reading strategy groups!
Hello Everyone! Thanks for taking a peek! We have been having so much fun using the themes of "The Lorax" as springboards for other cutrricular areas. In math we have been working on composing and decomposing addition facts. We have been working on the strategy of making groups of 10 to help solve those additon problems. Using a 10 frame is a way to show kids how to compose and decompose using 10's. The frams also show kids different ways to solve the same problem. To make the concept clear and multisensory, I decided to find some "Truffula Tree Tufts" to use as manipulatives. Alas! Hobby Lobby had some large bags of bright colored pom poms in all different sizes. They so reminded me of Truffula Tufts and the kids couldn't wait to get their hands on them!! We practiced using the tufts to show how to decompose (or move) enough of the tufts from one of the addends to help the other addend make 10. We were then able to compose a new related addition fact. 10 + anything is easier to add!! The kids really got it!! We finally had the time to make our little Text Connection books I talked about last week. We, of course, had to use the story "The Lorax." The kids cut out their own hearts in specific colors, and wrote their connection ideas on each color, Yellow= Text to Self, Green= Text to Text, and Blue= Text to World. The kids had some great connections. The pics didn't turn out very clear (I so need a new camera) but I hope you can get the point of their connections! "It reminds me of a book called Grizwald. He had to move because were cutting down the trees." "I am a Daisy, and it reminds me of the Lorax." A final fun craft connection we did to go along with "The Lorax" was of course to make Truffula Trees! I needed an inexpensive craft connection that the kids could easily make. I decided to have the kids make some tissue paper tufts with striped pipe cleaner trunks. We took 4 sheets of brightly colored tissue paper (about 8x12) layered evenely. We then fan folded starting from the short side. We trimmed the ends either round or diagonal, and twisted the pipe cleaner around the center. Now the fun part! Gently pulling the layers apart!! This so reminded me of creating hundreds of flowers for parade floats way back in high school!! :) The kids had a blast making these and wanted to make a whole Truffula Forest!!! A Truffula Tree Forest! Thank you, Dr. Seuss, for your inspiration!! We've had a fantastic week! Hope your week was just as inspirational!! Joyfully! Nancy
How to make reading comprehension instruction engaging with ideas from the book DIsrupting Thinking by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is explicit and systematic, with a focus on the structure of the English language.
You’ve opened your Kit and have all those lovely, colorful words ready to introduce to your students! Now what? What is the very best way to teach SnapWords® efficiently and effectively?
Today marks my third look into the national Reading Panel. I’ve already discussed their work on phonemic awareness and phonics. Looking into fluency, though, the report felt different. There were no tables full of effect sizes: in fact they weren’t even able to conduct a metanalysis on one of their topics because there simply were not enough reports that met their criteria. Fluency is one of the 5 pillars of reading instruction, yet it doesn’t feel like all the pillars are equal. So much of fluency is intertwined with how well a child can decode words. For the National
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Discover and use the science of reading to teach phonics scope and sequence by grade level with my printable phonics sequence chart.
Well, it was about as close to a snow day as we get today. Our buses were cancelled today, and because I teach at a fairly rural school, that meant I only had 6 students in my class ... yep, 6. Don't ask me why they don't cancel school when the buses are off the road - I have no answer for this. Anyhow, it was a GREAT day with them. I got them started on a new art project, got my DRA testing done with 6 that were there (and got prepped for the rest of the students), worked on their orals, and got in some more practice with metric conversions. The grade 7/8 teacher and myself paired up the classes for two full blocks, so we each got some time to ourselves in the classroom, too. YAY! With the extra time I had today, I was able to get a lot of marking done in their reading notebooks. We're still studying inferring with our Chris Van Allsburg unit. Last week we read The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For our weekly summative task, I decided to do a foldable - the kids love them in math, so I figured they'd love them in language, as well. I had them make an accordion book. They had to recreate the cover, using the same style of illustrations Chris Van Allsburg used in the book. For the inside panels they had to cover: a summary of the story character traits for two characters (with supporting evidence) setting (both place and time - inferred from the story) a reflection based on the question, "How did the main character's feelings change throughout the story?" (they also had to include supporting evidence from the text). This was a nice switch from the usual written summary and reflection - and I was right, the kids loved making them (well, love might be a strong word, but they definitely liked them). ;) Happy Monday!!!
This is my sixth post about implementing reading workshop in the primary classroom. In my last post, I wrote about how to implement reading partnerships in your classroom. Today, I will specifically talk about the role of the teacher during reading workshop. First and foremost, the teacher’s job is to plan and teach effective mini-lessons. […]
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