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Reading Comprehension Blueprint

August 2024 Vermont Leadership Series

August 2025 – Adolescent Literacy Leadership Series

Teaching Reading in Brief

Volume #1 – Phonemic Awareness

Vol.1, No.1 – The Essential Role of Phonological Awareness in Foundational Skill Development

Vol. 1, No.2 – Phonemic Awareness: Some First Sounds to Teach

Vol. 1, No.3 – Nasal Phonemes and their Quirks

Vol. 1, No. 4 – Phoneme Isolation and Categorization

Vol. 1, No. 5 – The Development of Phonemic Awareness: How to Match Instruction to Students’ Learning Needs

Vol. 1, No. 6 – When to Stress about Syllable Stress and Schwa

Volume #2 – Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping

Vol. 2, No. 1 – Understanding and Teaching Phoneme Grapheme Mapping

Vol. 2, No. 2 – Mapping Syllable Types with Phoneme Grapheme Mapping

Vol. 2 No. 3 – Four Principles of Grapheme Use

Vol. 2 No. 4 – The Importance of Teaching Inflectional Suffixes for Language Development

Vol. 2, No. 5 – Syllables and Their Place in Word Study

Volume #3 – Orthography and Morphology

Vol. 3, No. 1 – Overview of English: Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek Layers within English

Vol. 3, No. 2 – Building Strong Foundations: Teaching Suffixes in Primary Grades

Vol. 3, No. 3 – Teaching Suffix Spelling Rules

Vol. 3, No. 4 – From Simple to Complex: Prefixes and Chameleon Prefixes

Vol. 3, No. 5 – Teaching Latin Roots and Greek Combining Forms

Vol. 3, No. 6 – The Power of -tion, -sion, and -clan: The Hidden Building Blocks of Academic Vocabulary

Volume #4 – Reading Assessment

Vol. 4, No. 1- The Role of Assessment

Vol. 4, No. 2- Assessment of Fluency, Decoding, and Phonological Processing

Voices from the Field

Voices from the Field #1 Oct. 6th, 2025

Vermont Legislative Updates

Vermont Act 139: An act relating to supporting Vermont’s young readers through evidence-based literacy instruction. Enacted May 30, 2024