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Literacy Framework

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This framework comprises Tier 1 core literacy instruction within the ISD 622 MTSS structure.

ISD 622 Elementary Literacy Framework

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“Each student has a right to equitable, accessible, inclusive, and culturally responsive literacy education. 622 educators commit to delivering high-quality English Language Arts instruction that is research- and evidence-based and anchored in MN state standards. Each ISD 622 student will be a critical reader, writer, and thinker, ensuring career and college readiness and the ability to thrive and contribute in diverse communities.” 

- ISD 622 Literacy Philosophy

2020 Minnesota K-12 English Language Arts Standards
 
Structured Literacy: Instructional practices aligned with the science of reading, that are sequential, systematic, explicit, cumulative, diagnostic, mastery-driven, and highly interactive.

Core Reading Instruction

Word Recognition        X

Language Comprehension      =

                            

Reading Comprehension

Phonemic Awareness

Explicit instruction in
identifying and manipulating
individual speech sounds
in spoken language.

Includes:

blending

segmenting

isolation

discrimination

deletion

substitution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phonics       

Direction instruction in
the relationship between sounds and
written letters that is sequential,
systematic, and explicit.

Includes:

decoding

morphology

high-frequency words 

graphemes

letter formation

handwriting

encoding

spelling

Fluency

Monitored daily practice
with repeated readings
to build accuracy,
automaticity, and
appropriate expression.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary  

Explicitly teaching
word meanings to
build background
knowledge across
 content areas. 

 

 

 

                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comprehension

The ultimate goal
of reading, which
combines word
recognition and
language comprehension
to make meaning
with automaticity.

 

 

 

 

 

Core Writing Instruction

Explicit, sequenced instruction into content knowledge-building.

Includes:

responding to reading

composing original narrative, opinion, informational, and create texts

understanding syntax, semantics, grammar, word choice, etc.