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Unpacking Automaticity: Scaffolded Texts and Comprehension

illustration of 3 adolescent readers

This article presents evidence for an alternative perspective for automaticity support where texts are selected to help students increase their automaticity with the words they will encounter consistently—the 2500 morphological families that have been shown to account for at least…

Unpacking automaticity: Scaffolded texts and comprehension

“CATERing” to Readers’ Needs with AI: Innovation in Text Design and Instruction

In this article, the authors describe an innovation that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create texts tailored to the interests, strengths, and learning needs of individual readers.

CATERing” to Readers’ Needs with AI: Innovation in Text Design and Instruction

What the Quasi-Regular Orthography of English Means for Bringing Students to Proficient Reading

Proficiency in reading demands automaticity in connecting letters and sounds, necessitating systematic phonics instruction. However, the complexity of English orthography and its morphology means that becoming proficient in reading takes time and requires substantial exposure to text.

What the Quasi-Regular Orthography of English Means for Bringing Students to Proficient Reading

Enhancing Opportunities for Decoding and Knowledge Building through Beginning Texts

2 elementary students reading while lying down, with a stack of books on either side.

Ensuring effective texts for student reading acquisition is a shared goal. This paper addresses the efficacy of decodable and leveled texts, their word features, and outcomes of reorganizing texts by vowel patterns and topics. Sparse evidence supports one text type’s…

Enhancing Opportunities for Decoding and Knowledge Building through Beginning Texts

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