Jessica Hoffman, SST 13 Regional Literacy Specialist

You know phonics instruction is critical in learning to read. Your district or school has a program that teaches phonics in grades K-3, and you recently shifted to decodable texts and spelling instruction that aligns with phonics instruction. Your Tier 2 intervention is also strongly rooted in phonics, phonemic awareness, decodable texts, and spelling. In … Read more

Early literacy development can be conceptualized using the Simple View of Reading, just as later literacy components can be. In the Simple View of Reading, the end result of Reading Comprehension is made up of two factors, Word Recognition and Language Comprehension. Later in development (in early elementary school for most children), those two factors … Read more

Equity. The word is ringing in my ears. It has been a major emphasis in education in our state, as it should be. And sources everywhere are talking and writing about equity in education. But what does it really mean? What is Educational Equity? According to the National Equity Project, “Educational equity means that each … Read more

*Before you decide maybe this blog post isn’t for you, like I might have done a year ago, please read through this preface. Our blogs this year have focused mostly on how to design systems for effective literacy instruction. I have written those posts partly because they are much-needed topics, but also because I was … Read more