I recommend the K-12 reading block skills article By EL Education Curriculum. to my partner and our teacher. I believe that it is fundamental and one of the basic needs of all children is to be able to read. Without the appropriate reading skills how will students be able to comprehend and understand assignments and what they are looking for. This article in its second paragraph states the emphasis and importance of what the goal is for the children. “Because of this widely recognized need, EL Education has created the K–2 Reading Foundations Skills Block (Skills Block). The intent is to ensure that, by the end of Grade 2, students acquire the depth of skills they need in the Reading Foundations standards in order to be able to navigate grade-level text independently. The lessons and assessments explicitly address the CCSS Reading Standards: Foundational Skills, as well as some Language standards associated with spelling and letter formation.”(eleducation.org) There is a huge need for EL education and through this we hope we can adequately prepare students for success. Too many times in today’s world we see children fall by the wayside, this is because they are not equipped with the basic tools for survival. If we focus on fully developing the children’s reading and comprehension skills all the other categories will rise. The skill block is a module for the students to use its an eight-week structure with cycles. It is used to pace the levels that the child is learning. Each cycle becomes more difficult; it challenges the student to take charge and prepare oneself. You may ask what if a student isn’t fully understanding it? Well benchmark testing is used to examine how far along the student is. If they are on track then the benchmark will show, if they are not as a teacher we will step in and try to fill the void in the gap and push the student along in the right direction so they will be able to comprehend fully. This is the ultimate goal, so no child is fully left behind. I believe this will help my teacher dearly.

Citation: EL Education Curriculum

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