School Talk Blog Helping All Children Learn to Read and Succeed Academically For Parents, Home Schools, Teachers, Coaches, Administrators, and School Board Members

Helping All Children Learn to Read

and Succeed Academically

For Parents, Home Schools, Teachers, Coaches, Administrators, and

School Board Members

Welcome

This website is owned and maintained by retired school teachers and administrators who have successfully taught children to read for over 20 years. These educators are dedicated to providing concrete, practical, factual, reliable, and scientifically research-based information to parents, teachers, reading coaches, administrators, and school board members. When making decisions about improving the academic achievement for all children, knowing what works best for all learners is key.

Literacy is the focus of this website. Daily reading and spelling lessons are provided for you to download each day. Reading is the gateway skill for all learning. Mathematics, history and social science, science, even music and the arts cannot be learned at high levels when reading skills are impaired. The good news is most all children can learn to read at high levels of academic achievement if they are taught well from the day they enter school and early intervention is immediate and focused when problems are identified. It is possible to identify children as early as pre-school and kindergarten who need intensive intervention. Early identification of problems results in higher rates of success. Waiting for a child to fall two or more years behind their grade-level peers is unnecessary and harmful.

That said, it is you, the reader of these pages who will help guide the developers of this website. Your questions and input will help formulate the content. All answers and information provided to you will be based upon the latest scientific-research on how children learn to read. Creating a website visitors can trust is of paramount importance for the educators who are maintaining this site. Fads may have their place in fashion, but when the futures of children are dependent upon receiving a quality education, fads are not productive.

Send email to INFO@schooltalkblog.com for questions and comments. Please include: your name, the state where you reside, school and/or district name, and the grade level about which you are inquiring or commenting.

To be at grade level by the end of first grade children should be reading grade-appropriate text fluently (about 60 Words Correct Per Minute). [Tindal, G., Hasbrouck, J., Jones, C., Oral Reading Fluency: 90 Years of Measurement Ⓒ 2005]