Assistant Principal Message: Great news as you prepare to return after spring break 2023. Wow, the time has really flown by. It's already March, and spring break is over. I hope you had a good break and stayed safe. Please remember I'm available via email or office visits. 

Research Corner: Teaching Letter Names without Letter Sounds - Some people think that teaching letter names is essentially teaching their sounds, but unfortunately, that is not the case in English. Some letter names don't have a sound commonly associated with the letter at all. How do we fix this? By teaching primary vowels like short sounds first (e.g. a, e, i, o, u), as in "pat, pet, pit, pot, & putt." 

Reference:  Connor, Morrison, & Katch "Beyond the Reading Wars: Exploring the Effect of Child-Instructions on Growth in Early Reading," Scientific Studies of Reading 8, no. 4 (2004) 305-336. 

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