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District recommends adopting 95% Core Phonics for grades 3–5 after 16-week pilot
Summary
The district recommends adopting 95% Core Phonics as a tier‑1, daily 30‑minute phonics program to complement existing knowledge-building ELA instruction in grades 3–5; pilot data and teacher feedback were presented to the board.
Sheena Conway, the district’s executive director for Humanities and Innovative Learning, presented the recommendation to adopt 95% Core Phonics as a Tier 1 core phonics program for grades 3–5.
Conway said the district identified gaps in explicit phonics and morphology instruction after grade 2 and that 95% is intended to complement — not replace — the district’s knowledge-building ELA curriculum. She described the science-of-reading basis for the recommendation, the program’s 30-minute daily whole-class…
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