What is the Summer Series? A collection of listener favourites from the Structured Literacy Podcast to get you prepared for 2026. Today's Episode Repeated reading doesn't work for all students because fluency issues have different root causes. Understanding four reading profiles helps target the right intervention: Speedy & accurateSlow & accurateFast & inaccurateSlow & inaccurateCritical principle: First comes accuracy, then comes speed. Why repeated reading fails: If student...
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What is the Summer Series? A collection of listener favourites from the Structured Literacy Podcast to get you prepared for 2026. Today's Episode Repeated reading doesn't work for all students because fluency issues have different root causes. Understanding four reading profiles helps target the right intervention: Speedy & accurateSlow & accurateFast & inaccurateSlow & inaccurateCritical principle: First comes accuracy, then comes speed. Why repeated reading fails: If student...
S6 E17 - How to Streamline Your Assessment Schedule
The Structured Literacy Podcast
26 minutes
3 months ago
S6 E17 - How to Streamline Your Assessment Schedule
This episode helps schools cut bloated assessment schedules by focusing on two essential questions: 1. Who is at risk? 2. What skills lead to success? Key Principles: Not every assessment needs one-on-one administrationAssessments must inform instruction, not just generate dataQuestion whether testing time is more valuable than teaching timeAvoid decodable text level assessments that reinforce outdated levellingThe bottom line: Only assess what directly improves student outcomes. Everything e...
The Structured Literacy Podcast
What is the Summer Series? A collection of listener favourites from the Structured Literacy Podcast to get you prepared for 2026. Today's Episode Repeated reading doesn't work for all students because fluency issues have different root causes. Understanding four reading profiles helps target the right intervention: Speedy & accurateSlow & accurateFast & inaccurateSlow & inaccurateCritical principle: First comes accuracy, then comes speed. Why repeated reading fails: If student...
