![]() “It helps to calibrate that content so that students can practice reading at a ‘just-right’ level of difficulty,” said Rebecca Buckley, director of Succeeding by Reading, an Oakland-based tutoring program. Rose Ciotta, investigations and projects editor This EdSource special report examines the state of early reading in California, the needs of special learners, teacher preparation and training and curricula and textbooks that drive instruction. This is the seventh in an occasional series on the dramatic national push to revamp how reading is being taught in the earliest grades. However, leveled reading is so ubiquitous that it has also been invoked under the banner of the science of reading. Balanced literacy favors immersion in literature over teaching fundamentals like phonics, which is a pillar of structured literacy, an evidenced-based approach that builds on decades of exhaustive research. That’s because it flies in the face of “leveled reading,” a practice often associated with balanced literacy classrooms, by far the most popular approach in California. She gets to read whatever she wants at home.”Ī child’s simple decision to reach beyond her assessed reading level to pick a book she fancies has become a controversy in some quarters. “I don’t want her to read the leveled books. “She doesn’t want to read the leveled books,” said Hutchison. Right now, the third grader favors books about cats. That’s why Hutchison takes pains to supplement her daughter’s literary diet with more intriguing fare at home. “So it’s terrible reading, and you’re not learning anything. They’re just nonsensical,” said the Bay Area mother of two. Jess Hutchison’s daughter Sawyer, 8, is often bored by the books she gets assigned based on her reading level at school. Local Control Funding Formula Explained.California’s Homeless Students: Undercounted, Underfunded And Growing.Full Circle: California Schools Work To Transform Discipline.Tainted Taps: Lead puts California Students at Risk. ![]() Education during Covid: California families struggle to learn.College And Covid: Freshman Year Disrupted.Adjuncts’ gig economy at CA community colleges. ![]()
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