Teaching Reading: Keys to Success
When reading is systematically and directly taught using the five pillars, then students learn to read successfully. Read our whitepaper to learn more.
Unlock the Secrets
of Reading:
A Must-Read White Paper
for Teachers
Using a systematic, synthetic approach, DataWORKS’ Teaching Reading white paper explains what to do and what not to do in helping kids learn to read.
The 5 Pillers
The focus is on improving students’ reading skills with the five Pillars of Reading—Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Comprehension, Fluency, and Vocabulary.
Evidence-based Strategies
It recommends evidence-based strategies for enhancing literacy outcomes for all learners, and it highlights ineffective practices to avoid.
What are
The Four Keys
Discover key strategies for improving students’ reading skills! Our white paper explores explicitly teaching the five pillars of reading, refining common teaching methods for greater impact, and integrating literacy components like spelling, grammar, and writing to enhance reading development. It also highlights proven strategies for fostering strong literacy skills.
Focusing on Explicit Instruction
The white paper emphasizes the importance of structured, systematic, and explicit instruction in teaching reading. This includes explicit phonics instruction, scaffolding, repeated practice with text, direct instruction of word meanings and strategies for understanding words in context, and targeted instruction for both narrative and informational texts. These evidence-based approaches support all five pillars of reading — phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Redefine Common Teaching Approaches
The white paper highlights common challenges in reading instruction and identifies approaches that may not fully support students’ literacy development. It offers insights into how practices — such as discovery learning, lack of skill progression, passive reading, and answering questions without sufficient instruction— can be refined to better foster reading growth and literacy skills.
Using Proven Strategies
This white paper explains how key strategies within literacy components—such as daily practice, consistency, repetition, guided practice, reading aloud, vocabulary instruction, graphic organizers, and modeling—can effectively enhance students’ reading skills.
Enhancing with Additional Literacy Components
The white paper describes how to use other essential literacy components—such as spelling, writing, grammar, and listening/speaking—to advance students’ reading skills.
Professional Development
Learning-to-read workshops
Learning-to-read strategies are essential tools for promoting student literacy growth. These strategies, incorporated with reading lessons and student engagement, educators can help students become confident, skilled readers.
Our webinar and onsite workshops provide comprehensive support to enhance effective reading instruction.
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