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As a parent I see 80% of our one-time funding and all of our COLA being utilized for teacher salaries. What is the best way to advocate getting this money to give to direct intervention and specialized aids rather than lining the teachers pockets?

As much as the CTA blindly makes you believe it, higher teacher salaries are not resulting in higher level of education for kids as evident in our reading and comprehension benchmarks and in CA school dashboards.

At what age should a child begin to be able to read? I'm sure it is variable, but I'm wondering if my child is on track. He's 3 and knows his ABCs (as in the song), we are working on being able to identify letters, and we read multiple books to him everyday.

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My wife was an intervention specialist and hearing her breakdown this exact issue as a constant roadblock in her ability to get old school Gen Ed teachers to move away from whole word instruction is baffling.

Even in her masters coursework right now she’s running into instructors that are ignorant of the SOR.

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I used this too! It's an incredible resource.

The irony

One of the greatest honors of my role as a parent so far has been teaching each of my four children to read. They were all highly proficient by the time they were four or five. I used a book called, How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. It’s a bit old school, but miraculous in its results, and is explicit in its instructions for parents to be effective.

Do not cede the responsibility of teaching your child to read to a teacher. It is an absolute certainty that they won’t do as good a job as you.

Has anybody ever mentioned the person on the left looks like walter white?

PS. I know a kid that has a hard time reading stuff he sees, like usernames people have chosen in video games. I wonder if it's education or dyslexia maybe.

I’m not OP but I struggled to learn to read. One day I found Ramona Quimy and instead of reading one chapter I read three, because I liked it!

Read to them, anything is better than nothing, but if you read about topics they like they’ll be self-driven and that’s golden.

Probably not but the argument would be atleast coherent lmfaooo

Not sure how old your child is, but my school district is using a program called “Reading Horizons”. The company even has YouTube videos of all their lessons online for free. It teaches phonics, decoding, CVC, all that good stuff. I would suggest you doing the videos and lessons with your child. I think parent involvement is the key, just the mere fact that you’re concerned and want to do something about it is the first, right, step!

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What remedial skills do you find are most helpful for teaching kids with developmental delays to read?

Definitely find poems to be a life saver.

I have tried and failed to find substantial research as to what books are good at what ages for children. I have a one year old and will soon have another. Any advice? Most of the books I see are just ads by sites just pushing for clicks and referral revenue.

There are a lot of studies indicating that the mere presence of plenty of books in the home contribute to increased reading abilities and interest in reading. Any advice regarding the migration to e-readers?

There was a study by Pew Research indicating that interest in reading starts to taper off at 9. Any recommendations to help prevent that?

There was another study done showing that parents stop reading to kids once their kids start to learn to read on their own. Are there substantial benefits regarding continuing the practice after the kid learns to read on their own?

Are you aware of other organizations similar to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (For those who have kids, I highly recommend).

EDIT: Also recommend the Open Dyslexic Font https://opendyslexic.org/ for those struggling or know someone struggling with Dyslexia.

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Great idea. Parents also need to see regular monitoring data too!

No real research support for the integration of art into improving literacy. Stick with the research!

How would you respond to an administrator who tells language arts teachers that listening to audio books is reading?

Sadly we keep on moving on . This literacy gap is responsible for the school to prison pipeline. If you can't read proficiently by end of 3rd a student is 4x likely to drop out of high school and never read fluently. Over 80% of justice involved youth are illiterate. Sadly for some this is the first time they get assessed is in Federal jail because there is a law to test for dyslexia.. (trouble with words). I think the change will come when the public demands it. Low literacy affects communities, not just students and parents.