Students who fell behind in their reading abilities during the pandemic are now making huge strides due to consistent face-to-face instruction, researcher says
After falling behind in their reading abilities over the past two years, a group of Alberta students are showing signs of recovery, a researcher has found.
“When everybody comes together and they all understand the importance of early literacy and what skills have to be taught in the early grades, then you can have the success that we see in our schools today,” Prof. Georgiou said. Prof. Georgiou has been monitoring screening assessments from about 20 schools in Edmonton and the surrounding areas for about a decade. The schools assess their students three times a year – in September, January and May – to identify children who are falling behind in their learning and might needBy the end of the 2020-21 academic year, Prof. Georgiou found that students in Grades 1 and 2 were performing, on average, eight months to a full year below grade level on reading tasks.
This is a departure from the way reading is taught in many parts of the country, where children are supposed to be taught to sound out letters, but are also encouraged to predict or guess at words using context, pictures and cues.
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