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From regular student assessment to contracting for independent studies, 成人快播 systematically collects, analyzes, and uses data to generate knowledge, improve programs, and report on impacts.

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science of reading

The established and growing research we have about how students learn to read, including systemic phonics education.

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A facet of high-dosage tutoring in which a tutor offers personalized attention to their student, resulting in targeted support, and personalized literacy learning.

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The frequency of a learning experience. For example, 成人快播 students receive twice weekly tutoring for maximum growth.

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educational equity

Ensuring every student, no matter their race, gender, socioeconomic level, or location has access to the resources and support they need to succeed in school and in life.

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Supporting Student Success with Phonics-Focused Learning

November 8, 2018

by Supporting Student Success with Phonics-Focused Learning

鈥淭oday we鈥檙e going to go over a couple of words that all end with the letters i,n,k, sounding like 鈥榠nk鈥 as in 鈥榮ink.鈥欌澛 I overheard this yesterday at my urban San Francisco reading center, from a tutor working with one of our awesome first graders. This is how many of our lessons sound, with community volunteers breaking down words into their letters and sounds.聽 And as it turns out, we鈥檙e not just reading. We鈥檙e doing some serious brain science.

Since the push for public education began in the US, a national debate of how to teach reading has influenced generation after generation of students. At the core of the debate is the question of whether learning to read is a natural process similar to the acquisition of speech, or if reading needs to be strategically taught using phonics to connect letters to sound. For years, teachers have been taught that students can 鈥渘aturally鈥 learn how to read if given enough access and memorization – a 鈥渨hole language鈥 approach. However, concluded in 2000 that students who learned the relationship between sounds and letters become better readers. The report also showed that there is no evidence that the 鈥渨hole language鈥 approach – which emphasizes access to books over phonological approaches to reading – increases students鈥 reading abilities. That is to say, scientific evidence supports what 成人快播 does in our curriculum: breaking down words and sounds and learning how to 鈥渄ecode鈥 words that we don鈥檛 know, not just memorizing them.

As chronicled in her article , author Emily Hanford breaks down how scientific evidence – brain science, supports this tactic and demonstrates why student literacy has not increased in the past two decades.聽 Following the publication of Congress鈥 report, rather than bringing an end to the debate on how to best teach students how to read, a new idea was created: balanced literacy. It鈥檚 a repackaged whole language approach with just a touch of phonics. For the last 20 years, 成人快播 has been working across the country to support students, but despite the findings of the report, literacy rates aren鈥檛 showing much improvement. Why is this? Because across the US, phonics continues to be an insubstantial part of the curriculum being used to train teachers.聽

In California, a 2009 senate bill changed the law to require that teacher preparedness programs provide instruction to meet the needs of a variety of learning styles. These programs also prepare teachers for a required statewide assessment that emphasizes the educator鈥檚 understanding of how sounds relate to letters and words, how sounds relate to spoken language, and how to develop those skills in the classroom – the brain science method!

Unfortunately for students in the Bay Area, universities have fallen short of providing adequate training for educators. This is where 成人快播 comes in.聽

With over 150 evidence-based lessons in our curriculum, thousands of community volunteers are mobilized to break down that 鈥渋,n,k鈥 and that 鈥渢,h鈥 and 鈥-ed鈥 to give our students the tools they need to succeed. For two 45 minute sessions a week, students receive one-on-one literacy support that is geared specifically towards their unique needs. During the 2018-19 school year, our dedicated team of volunteers and staff aim to empower more than 1,550 readers in the Bay Area.聽

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