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  Blog 1: Accelerate the reading and writing progress of 19 identified students using structured literacy interventions so they are working at or above their expected year level by the end of the year. What area of my practice do I need to work on changing in order to meet the needs of Pīwakawaka target children for reading and writing? To meet the needs of my Pīwakawaka target children I am going to work on the following areas for reading and writing: Reading: 1. Strengthening Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping While your current strategy uses a "speech to print" concept—loading a known word before identifying phonemes—the new curriculum teaching sequences emphasize rigorous orthographic mapping. Practice Change: Move from oral phonemic awareness activities to teaching phonemes simultaneously with graphemes. Research cited in the curriculum indicates that connecting sounds to letters immediately leads to stronger reading outcomes than oral-only activities.  This requires explicit inst...