Mastery-based learning provides a solid foundation for students to build and develop their knowledge at their own pace. Pajaro Valley Unified School District in California has made the move to a mastery-based, individualized learning and has seen improved student outcomes, particularly in the area of literacy.

In a recent webinar, Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rodriguez and Early Literacy Coordinator Lynda Pate shared:

• Key components of mastery-based, individualized learning
• District and Site systems needed to support significant change
• Critical steps to take an initiative from pilot to scale
• Milestones/checkpoints to monitor along the way to track intended impact

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The California Dyslexia Guidelines were published in August, 2017 in response to Assembly Bill 1369, Statutes of 2015, in order to assist regular education teachers, special education teachers, and parents in identifying, assessing, and supporting students with dyslexia. This Infographic highlights major points from these Guidelines.

CORE can support your district’s efforts to address dyslexia and to help you prevent students from developing reading difficulties right from the start.  Contact CORE today to find out how to implement the new Guidelines in your district!

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Phonics

Sound/Spelling Review

The following videos align to the Explicit Phonics Lesson Sequence chart in the CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook, p. 175.

Blending Long E spelled ee – First Grade (aligns to Step 3, Blend Words)

Reading Words for Automaticity (aligns to Step 4, Build Automatic Word Recognition)

Reading Decodable Text – First Grade (aligns to Step 5, Apply to Decodable Text)

Reading Decodable Text – Fourth and Fifth Grade (aligns to Step 5, Apply to Decodable Text)

Word Work (aligns to Step 6, Word Work for Decoding and Encoding)

Multisyllabic Word Reading

The following videos align to HOW lessons in the CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook.

Introducing Open and Closed Syllables (pp. 272-275)

Syllable Division Strategy – VC/CV (pp. 276-282)

Syllable Division Strategy – VCV (pp. 283-287)

Introducing Affixes (pp. 304-307)

Flexible Strategy for Reading Big Words (pp. 308-313)

Informational Text

The following videos align to HOW lessons in the CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook.

QAR (Question-Answer Relationships) (pp. 702-710)

Hard to Read: How American schools fail kids with dyslexia (podcast and transcript by American Public Media)

Also from APM, “In Ohio, parents demand change for dyslexic kids”

International Dyslexia Association

The Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity

Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen: Quick, evidence-based screening tool that identifies students who are at risk for dyslexia.

Understood.org: Understanding Dyslexia

Decoding Dyslexia

The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia (film)

Reading Rockets: Top 10 Resources on Dyslexia

The teacher reviews previously learned sound/spellings. Notice her explanation of the three “sounds” for the inflectional suffix ed and the order of frequency of those three “sounds.”