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The National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development (NICHD) has supported research to understand
normal reading development and reading difficulties continuously
since 1965. During the past 33 years, NICHD-supported scientists
have studied the reading development of 34,501 children and
adults. Four factors that interfere with the development of
reading proficiency among children, regardless of socioeconomic
level and ethnicity, have been identified:
- Deficits in phoneme awareness and the
development of the alphabetic principle AND the application
of these skills to fluency when reading connected text
- Deficits in acquiring reading comprehension
strategies and application of these skills to reading connected
text
- The development and maintenance of motivation
to learn to read
- The inadequate preparation of teachers
Each year Hamlin Robinson School evaluates
all its educational programs in the light of current research. This
close scrutiny provides an explanation of why the Slingerland
Approach has been successful in teaching so many students
to read.
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