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Some children learn that b makes the buh sound and that there are three sounds in bag so early and so effortlessly that by the time they enter school and sometimes even preschool , learning to read is about as challenging as sneezing. When the feeling seizes them, they just have to do it. Other perfectly intelligent kids have a hard time locating the difference between bag and bad or a million other subtleties in language.

Many studies have shown that phonemic awareness is a skill that can be strengthened in kids. And following that instruction in phonemic awareness, about hours of direct and systematic phonics instruction can usually get the job done and ensure that about 90 percent of kids have the fundamentals they need to become good readers.

In some schools, balanced literacy means that preK teachers work on letters and letter sounds. Kindergarten, first, and second grade teachers deliver an orderly progression of explicit phonics lessons and, as the children become competent and confident readers, push them to discover the best that literature and nonfiction have to offer while doggedly building up their comprehension through weekly word study, spelling tests, and story analysis.

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At these schools, teachers provide a portion of the kids with a smattering of phonics most schools now concede that some kids do need phonics to help figure out the code and also encourage them to guess words from illustrations, and later, from context.

As the children hopefully get more competent at reading, teachers minimize the study of language and devote their time and energy to getting kids excited about words, reading, and books. For six years, Kristina Matuskiewicz, a kindergarten teacher at Edna C. Stevens Elementary School in Cromwell, CT, believed that, like all the teachers at her tidy suburban school, she was helping to make good readers.

She read them stories, she identified words and described their meaning, she offered them a variety of good books and worked to shift them to independent reading. The problem was, none of their approaches were working very well. In , only 70 percent of the third graders were proficient in reading. Not only that, each year about 33 out of kids in the preK through second grade classes required outside support in reading — a program that was costly for the school and for the district.

The principal, Lucille DiTunno, decided the school needed to take another approach. The first meeting, says Literacy How consultant Wendy North, was a disaster. Instead of directing the anger at the inadequate instruction they had been given at teachers college, she says, they felt humiliated and angry that outside experts were being brought in to teach what they already knew — how to teach reading. During the first week of kindergarten, Matuskiewicz sits with each child and determines if he or she knows the letters and their corresponding letter sounds.

The skill levels of the children are variable. When the chorus of cheerful voices begins to die away, North and Matuskiewicz look pleased. No one is suffering here. First grade teacher Angela DiStefano, a year teaching veteran, says the Literacy How approach to reading has changed her professional life forever.

Not long ago, she gave a seminar for first grade parents to teach them some rules about vowels for example: The Literacy How approach has increased the scores on interim tests, and results from the first third graders who learned to read this way are expected to be high. Already, only three children per year are now being referred for the costly reading support, a massive savings for the district. DiStefano says that the new program has made her relationship with parents more straightforward. Should you keep a sketchy secret if your child asks you not to tell?

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