How To Teach Children To Read

The National Institute of Child and Human Development (2012) was summoned by Congress in 1997 through its Child Development and Behavior Branch and United States Department of Education to establish the National Reading Panel to evaluate research that exists and evidence of the best teaching practices to teach children to read. The panel consisted of members of various backgrounds, which included school administrators, teachers in their current practice, and scientists that solely engaged in reading research. The 14 panel members completed their report and submitted their final report in the year 2000. Therefore, the panel found and submitted a combination of effective techniques to teach children to read; phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, …show more content…
Secondly, a lack of highly effective teachers to teach complex reading skills, and the thirdly minimal time in the regular school day and year to illusory expectations for children. The implications of literacy practices being implemented by highly effective teachers, as outlined in the report, will help teacher’s narrow racial and ethnic barriers in reading. Teachers who apply decoding skills tend to strengthen reading comprehension in their students. Therefore, teachers that are highly effective and skilled and utilize research based tools for reading assessment and instruction can positively affect reading achievement. The Performance Management Theory of Action is based on the premise that a teacher’s educational training adds valued contributions to student achievement and provide a lens to describe a teacher effectiveness to student outcomes on standardized test. Therefore, teaching, training enables the teacher render reading instruction to students of different backgrounds through social, racial, cultural, cognitive, and linguistic histories and characteristic of each