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Stanford Professor Bruce McCandliss found that beginning readers who focus on letter-sound relationships, or phonics, increase activity in the area of their brains best wired for reading. https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/may/reading-brain-phonics-052815.html?fbclid=IwAR1X_Zx6dM0Jkdm9O0xO7TI7d0...

If a child memorizes 10 words they can only read 10 words
If a child learns 10 sounds they will be able to read 350 3 sound words, 4320 4 sound words, and 21650 5 sound words.
-Martin Kozolof 2002

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/how-do-kids-learn-to-read-what-the-science-says/2019/10?fbclid=IwAR1yI7jl8PbwKUWzqXpIpKalsJPeKbPH_2o57OHEKQi6HtylscoGAAscpe8

The National Center on Improving Literacy has a tutorial about Phonemic Awareness. https://improvingliteracy.org/module/ask-answer-phonemic-awareness?fbclid=IwAR1eFkydno-YOAUBB6cA3UUtpNVi7E4aBthkCvmTT_UqaqH95gz6nKROSfA

This article from Reading Rockets discusses the important phonemic awareness skills that readers need to develop in order to be proficient readers. By Louisa Moats and Carol Tolman. These are the skills that are practiced during Access Reading Success tutoring sessions. Link is here https://www.r...

Dr. Maureen Ray

Scarborogh's Reading Rope: Helps us as educators understand the complex strands that make up reading comprehension. The illustration points out that there are 2 focuses of the reading rope: Language Comprehension and word recognition also known as decoding. Students usually struggle with one of t...