Keys to Literacy Summer Newsletter

Keys to Literacy Newsletter

Summer, 2023

Blog Post

The Importance of Teaching Prosody As Part of Reading Fluency

Fluency plays a role in helping students become motivated readers. It is the ability to read connected text at varying degrees of complexity accurately, appropriately paced, with logical phrasing and prosodic expression, with little conscious attention to the mechanics of reading. Fluency combines rate, accuracy, automaticity, and oral reading prosody (expression), which taken together facilitate the reader’s construction of meaning.

Prosody is the rhythmic and melodic aspects of speech. It is reading with good expression, intonation, including pitch, tone, volume, and emphasis on certain words. Click here to read more.

Spotlight: Keys in the Classroom

High School Algebra, 2-column notes from The Key Comprehension Routine.

Canfield, OH Kindergarten using 2-column to plan a writing piece. From Keys to Early Writing.

Keys News

NEW! Louisiana Act 108 Online Training Option

Louisiana educators seeking to meet Act 108 literacy training requirements now have the option to take our asynchronous online option! Click here for details.

Learning A-Z Virtual Writing Summit

KTL is collaborating with Learning A-Z for a free virtual writing summit on August 9 featuring Joan Sedita, founder of Keys. Joan will present a workshop titled The Writing Rope: A Framework for Explicit Writing Instruction. KTL's Lisa Klein and Melisa Rice will also present webinars titled Instructional Suggestions to Support Sentence and Paragraph Writing and First Steps for Beginning Writing: Drawing, Labels, Lists for Kindergarten and Grade 1. Click here to register.

Recommended Literacy Resources

Free Adolescent Literacy Webinar

Colleen Yasenchock, Keys to Literacy consultant and founder of the Science of Reading: 3rd Grade and Beyond Facebook group, is delivering a free two-part webinar titled "The SOR for Secondary Levels" on July 16 & August 8. Click here for details.

New report about the 30 states focusing on science-of-reading.Click here. Also, a related report with survey of state reading legislation. Click here.

Several helpful resources that emphasize the value of teaching comprehension strategies, including main idea: "Don't Discard Comprehension Strategies" (Five from Five), "Helping Kids Access Complex Text" (ASCD), "Comprehension Strategy Intervention" (Peng et al., 2023).

Nice, short article in Edutopia with suggestions for integrating vocabulary and comprehension instructional activities into a primary grades read-aloud lesson. Click here.

Great article in Psychology Today about reading and brain science. Click here.

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