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Show LETRS based spelling curriculum 23 LETRS stands for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling. It is a professional development course for instructors of reading, writing, spelling and other related language art skills. It is not a literacy curriculum. It is a training for early childhood educators, K-8 educators, SPED educators and administrators to gain knowledge, strategies and tools so they can better teach language arts. It is research based on how, when and what language skills need to be taught. There are two volumes with a total of eight units. Instructors taking the courses learn with the manual, online training and learning with an instructor. Volume one (unit 1-4) focuses on word recognition. Unit one describes the challenges of learning to read. Unit two instructs on the speech sound of English (phonological skills). Unit three teachers on phonics, word recognition and spelling. Unit four educates on advanced decoding, spelling, and word recognition. Volume two (Units 5-8) focuses on language comprehension. Unit five describes the importance of vocabulary and oral language. Unit six instructs on reading comprehension. Unit seven teaches on text comprehension strategies. Lastly unit eight educates on reading-writing connection (Moats & Tolman, 2019). LETRS incorporates reading research and is grounded in the science of reading. Some notable research the authors use are the following ten instructional principles. The first principle is, “Simple View of Reading” which states that the two most important components of reading are the ability to decode words and comprehend text. The second principle is, “Area of the Brain that Support Reading” which reveals that the left side of the brain is the orthographic processing system. This part of the brain does not visualize any other stimuli such as objects or faces. The third principle is, “Ehri’s Phases of Word-Reading Development” which declares that readers that recognize sight words depend on phonemic awareness and the ability to map phonemes to graphemes. The fourth principle is, “Letter-by-letter Processing and Orthographical Mapping” |
