Reading, Writing, Spelling Lesson Plans from FreeReading

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FreeReading is truly free. The materials on it are free for you to review and download.

FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains a 40-week scope and sequence of phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade core or basal program.

Our premises are:

The research on how students learn to read is well-established.
The research on which instructional techniques work is well-understood.
The voices of those who know what works best, classroom teachers, are rarely heard in instructional design.
The power of "we" is far greater than the power of "you" or "I."

The goals of FreeReading are:

To help educators around the world teach kids to read
To make quality, research-based, explicit, and systematic instruction for early reading widely available and free (in two senses of the word free: “at no charge” and “openly offered so as to be used, reused, mashed-up, and shared again”)
To nurture a community of educators who can share effective teaching methods with one another
To channel spending in education away from textbooks and toward customized instructional materials, support and training for teachers, and tools for data and knowledge management
To allow kids, as Catherine Snow has said, for kids to be able to "read books with enjoyment while lying in a hammock under elm trees."

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