CVUSD's Communication Snapshot
The CVUSD is focused on implementing best practices to support students' success in the classroom. Starting in November, our Instructional Services team hosted three different Science of Reading sessions for all of the District's kindergarten and first grade teachers to complete. The Science of Reading is a body of research that incorporates insights and research from disciplines that include developmental psychology, educational psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. In short, the Science of Reading has demonstrated the methods that best help children learn to read, from the earliest steps in spoken language to being able to successfully decode unfamiliar words.
The goal of this professional development training was for our CVUSD teachers to gain a general understanding of the research behind the Science of Reading and how our brains learn to read. An overview of the importance of phonological awareness and phonics and how explicit, systematic instruction can help all children as they learn to read was provided. Teachers walked away from these trainings with simple, easy-to-implement classroom routines in phonology, phonemic awareness, learning sight words, phonics, and spelling using our adopted Wonders ELA curriculum and other free supplemental resources.
A big thank you to our Instructional Services team for leading this professional development and to our dedicated teachers for their engagement and successful completion of this training!
