Heidi | Science of Reading Simplified on Instagram: "Meaning is important... even for our earliest readers! “Rapid access to word meanings that are relevant to a given context is necessary to keep comprehension from slowing down and eventually breaking down.” McKeown M. G. (2019) To be honest, I never really considered teaching vocabulary with CVC words because so many of them are widely used and known. However, in looking at the word lists, I realized there are many that kids may not know! This