What At-Risk Readers Need
If we began screening for letter name knowledge in kindergarten, we could know on the second day of kindergarten who is at risk of becoming a struggling reader, and begin interventions, he says.
However, he adds, most U.S. schools have no plan to provide the sorts of expert, additional instruction that at-risk kindergartners need. "This means that most schools deliberately create a pool of students who will become struggling readers," Allington concludes.
To break this status quo, Allington suggests shifting early reading interventions from what doesn't work:
