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Hiawatha teacher says CKLA decodables speeding kindergarten reading skills
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Becky Pianchi, a kindergarten teacher at Hiawatha Elementary, told the Cedar Rapids Community School District that using the CKLA curriculum has helped students learn letter sounds and begin blending multi-sound words; she said decodable readers and a knowledge component support vocabulary and confidence.
Becky Pianchi, a kindergarten teacher at Hiawatha Elementary School, told the Cedar Rapids Community School District that students using the Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) curriculum are learning letter sounds earlier and beginning to blend three- to five-sound words.
Pianchi said CKLA divides the day into a skills portion and a knowledge portion. “CKLA is our new curricular resource that we're using here in Cedar Rapids and for kindergarten, specifically, there are 2 parts to our day. 1 part is the skills part,” she said, adding the knowledge component gives students exposure to topics through…
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