Literacy Instruction with a Focus in Phonics: A Professional Development for Primary Teachers
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Title
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Literacy Instruction with a Focus in Phonics: A Professional Development for Primary Teachers
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Creator
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McKinzie Leatherman
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Degree Name
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Master of Science in Education
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Project Type
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Professional Project
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Date
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6/15/2025
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Abstract
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This professional project is looking deeper into the possible need for explicit, systematic phonics instruction specifically in young children. The paper overlooks the research that ties together the Science of Reading, phonics instruction, and instructional best practices. The goal is to benefit teachers to know the best way to support their young students by learning how to decipher all the research behind the varying strategies on literacy and phonics instruction. This is a valuable topic due to the declining literacy proficiency and reading comprehension skills we see today. All can be experienced because of various views on the best strategies to teach literacy and what skills students are learning at what time. This can be confusing for educators who are just trying to find the best ways to support and provide their students with the best skills to help them succeed. In the research surrounding this topic, I found research behind phonics instruction, interventions, professional development, and best practices. Based on this research, I created a professional development for primary teachers in June 2025. My goal is to provide primary teachers with all the information I learned and give them resources to implement it in their own classroom. All of which is speaking to educators who want help seeing through all the research to find the best way to support their students and setting them up for success.
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Keywords
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Science of Reading
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intervention
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foundational skills
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Committee Member
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Ken Carano
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Ya-Fang Cheng
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Gregory Zobel
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Rights
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Western Oregon University Library has determined, as of 06/20/2025, this item is in copyright, which is held by the author. Users may use the item in accordance with copyright limitations and exceptions, including fair use. For other uses, please ask permission from the author.
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https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
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Language
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eng
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Type
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Text
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Identifier
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McKinzieLeatherman_PP_2025
