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Helping Older Kids
Read
By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
A is for apple. B is for banana. C is for car-
rot…
Children generally learn phonics in kin- appropriate for each grade level.
dergarten through second grade. In
kindergarten, children usually learn the While it’s true that children in the young-
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except the vowels a, e, i, o, and u).
First- and second-graders typically learn
- at grade-level? Do you start with phonics
again?
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terns. great for young children learning to read,
Second-graders typically review and prac- -
f for years. Janet Allen, the author of Yelor years. Janet Allen, the author of -
low Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Path
to Independent Reading Grades 4-12, dis-
cusses the research she did to encourage
literacy in older children.
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- First, Allen explains that tons of research
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