
Fifty Strategies to Ensure K–6 Literacy Success
Aligning Instruction to the Five Pillars of Reading
Using the science of reading and the five pillars essential for literacy success, author Dr. Kimberly A. Tyson explores practical, evidence-based strategies to implement in K–6 classrooms. This resource equips teachers, coaches, and principals with actionable tools for improving literacy instruction and student outcomes.
Fifty evidence-based instructional strategies to support K–6 literacy success
Ensure literacy success for all K–6 students with 50 evidence-based instructional strategies aligned to the five pillars of reading—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. In this timely and comprehensive resource for teachers, coaches, and principals, Dr. Kimberly Tyson includes strategies for struggling readers and English learners, key vocabulary, 10 online bonus strategies, and the “Leader’s Lens” to support principals.
K–6 teachers, coaches, and leaders can use the resources in this book to:
- Create a common language around the science of reading and the five pillars through the key vocabulary provided in each chapter
- Establish a literacy-rich classroom environment to support teaching and literacy learning
- Access 50 use-tomorrow instructional strategies for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
- Use the “Leader’s Lens” to provide supervision supports and classroom connections as principals lead and guide teachers
- Explore templates, key vocabulary, suggested professional resources, reproducibles, and 10 online bonus strategies