Mary Ann Poparad - Better Early Than Late

Do you have a bias?Highly successful teachers appeared to have a bias towardprompting for text‐level strategies; however, they did notneglect the use of visual information or attention to words.They help children analyze words using larger “chunks” ofinformation in addition to letter‐sound correspondence.Teachers with lower student outcomes tended to focusmore on letters and words and less on text‐levelstrategies. They attended to letter‐soundcorrespondence often; yet they did not appear to worktoward helping the child use word analysis “on the run”while reading continuous text.26