Ms. Hill's first grade class is incorporating multi-sensory reading strategies during their reading block. Our reading specialist, Mrs. Ray, has modeled the routine of encoding a word using phoneme-grapheme mapping boxes. This strategy applies the knowledge of how the brain learns to read to incorporate hands-on activities during instruction. Students writing (encoding) words using the phoneme-grapheme mapping boxes helps them attend to the reality that number of sounds (phonemes) they hear in a word may be different from the number of letters (graphemes) that represent those sounds. The data has shown that these strategies are improving student reading and writing fluency!
First Grade Incorporates Science-Based Reading Strategies
March 30, 2023