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Kindergarten teachers report early gains after CKLA adoption; district plans summer practice
Summary
District kindergarten teachers told the board the CKLA phonics curriculum and decodable readers are improving early-reading skills; staff cited positive FastBridge screening trends and plans to provide Boost practice over the summer to stem "summer slide."
Kindergarten teachers and district staff told the Mount Horeb Area School District board that a shift toward CKLA (a science-of-reading approach) and the use of decodable readers is producing early gains in students' phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
Presenters showed classroom examples and a short video demonstrating students using large-letter cards, individual folders for manipulating phonemes and decodable texts. Teachers said the program emphasizes explicit phonics…
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