My students are struggling readers in a small, rural community. About 50 percent of the children in our school are from low-income families. I teach over 50 students each day in our reading intervention program. Students at our school are taught phonics skills in a systematic, explicit way. In our reading interventions, we are trying to give the students practice with words they can access on their own, using the phonics and high-frequency word knowledge they have already acquired.
Intervention students need plenty of opportunities to decode words in books and other connected texts.
Decodable readers are an important part of this type of reading instruction. If too many words in a book are not decodable using the rules they have learned, students learn that the only ways to "read" those words are to tell them or to ask someone simply guess. Unfortunately, our school does not have many decodable book sets for interventions. The Junior Learning decodable readers would give students reading material which would help them learn to crack the phonics code. These books would reinforce good decoding habits and skills.
Half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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