This year, my classroom has experienced measurable reading growth that reflects more than students working hard; it reflects the impact of full implementation of Structured Literacy and evidence-based instructional practices.
I appreciate how clearly you resist two common traps at once:
treating Structured Literacy as a checklist rather than a system
separating “foundational skills” from meaning, language, and thinking
Your fluency work reinforces knowledge and vocabulary. Your sentence-level writing deepens comprehension. Your discussions ensure every student does the cognitive work. That integration is where acceleration happens—especially for students who start furthest behind.
Fantastic work here. The effect size of 0.61 at midyear is genuinely impressive becasue most interventions dont clear 0.40 for a full year. What stands out is how the vocabulary integration with fluency passages creates dual exposure, wich I saw work similarly in a pilot program where struggling readers gained more from layred practice than isolated drills. The ORF gains above national norms validate the whole approach.
My classroom is a coteaching classroom, 4 of the 7 in the red are classified as SPED, so they received additional phonics based instruction during our AIS block from the SPED teacher. The other students in the red, did not receive any additional support outside of the regular classroom instruction.
I enjoyed this article, but can you tell me how you created fluency passages that aligned to the genre, topic, and essential question of the main text you were studying?
I use AI to create them. For example I would use this prompt: Create a 3rd grade fluency passage with the genre XX, that helps answer the essential question xxxx and helps build knowledge on the topic xxxx. Embed the vocabulary words: xxx in the passage.
I appreciate how clearly you resist two common traps at once:
treating Structured Literacy as a checklist rather than a system
separating “foundational skills” from meaning, language, and thinking
Your fluency work reinforces knowledge and vocabulary. Your sentence-level writing deepens comprehension. Your discussions ensure every student does the cognitive work. That integration is where acceleration happens—especially for students who start furthest behind.
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Fantastic work here. The effect size of 0.61 at midyear is genuinely impressive becasue most interventions dont clear 0.40 for a full year. What stands out is how the vocabulary integration with fluency passages creates dual exposure, wich I saw work similarly in a pilot program where struggling readers gained more from layred practice than isolated drills. The ORF gains above national norms validate the whole approach.
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This was an excellent article about SOR. Thank you so much!
I enjoyed reading your article.
Well done! Congratulations to you and your students for so much success. Thank you for sharing the strategies that worked for well.
Can you describe the intervention (approach/program, frequency, etc.) that the 7 students who were below benchmark on BOY ORF received?
My classroom is a coteaching classroom, 4 of the 7 in the red are classified as SPED, so they received additional phonics based instruction during our AIS block from the SPED teacher. The other students in the red, did not receive any additional support outside of the regular classroom instruction.
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Thank you!
I enjoyed this article, but can you tell me how you created fluency passages that aligned to the genre, topic, and essential question of the main text you were studying?
I use AI to create them. For example I would use this prompt: Create a 3rd grade fluency passage with the genre XX, that helps answer the essential question xxxx and helps build knowledge on the topic xxxx. Embed the vocabulary words: xxx in the passage.