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Understanding Your School's Reading Curriculum
Description
Episode 87: In this episode, Beth answers one of the most common questions she gets from parents: What reading curriculum should I be looking for and how to I know what my school uses? She breaks down why reading is not a natural process, what phonological awareness really means, and what to look for in a strong reading curriuclum program (plus red flags that a curriculum may be doing more harm than good.)
- Why curriculum matters and the different types of curriculum schools can use
- What to do if your child's curriculum isn't working
- What phonological awareness is and why it predicts reading success
- How to evaluate your child's school reading curriculum
- What parents of struggling readers and kids with dyslexia need to know
- How fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary all fit together
Topics
science of reading · phonological awareness · structured literacy · reading curriculum · phonics instruction · dyslexia · early literacy · reading fluency · parent questions about reading
Links Mentioned
Play on Words Episode 52: 3 Cuing and Reading Struggles
About the Host
Beth Gaskill (Miss Beth) is a reading specialist, early childhood educator, and founder of Big City Readers. She helps parents support their children's literacy development through research-backed, science of reading strategies.
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