Three mornings a week for the past several months, a Northeast Portland second grader named Jaden has left his classroom for a 30-minute session focused on taking words apart and putting them back together.
By early June, a week before school was due to let out for summer, Jaden had progressed to reading full sentences with practiced ease, a huge leap forward.
The nearly concluded school year is the first since the pandemic that Oregon’s largest school district went big on a strategy that researchers have consistently pinpointed as among the best to help students who need more help to master grade level reading…