Prevention versus intervention: supporting beginning readers/writers
Data gathering is vital for planning effective instruction
The reading gap
The gap which divides “good readers and spellers” and “poor readers and spellers” begins to form early in a student’s school life. Early years’ teachers observe differences in their students’ expressive and receptive language, knowledge about print, abilities to hear sounds and sound patterns, and to articulate and recreate them.
With this diversity in mind, can careful …