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Here's an opportunity for families with children age 7-9 to learn about their child's reading development, earn $200, AND support important research!
This work is being done in partnership with @UMN_MIDB and Ed Psych's @kristenmcmaster and @Kendeou.
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"It's not that students aren't responsive to our interventions, it's that our interventions aren't responsive to our students." @DrKamonta 🔥 #IESSCRD
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It starts in higher Ed
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What a bizarre world.
A person can believe utter nonsense, as did Marie Clay (see below), and yet, nonetheless, achieve fame and found an organization (Reading Recovery) still in existence today.
Reading Recovery is part of the problem, not the solution.
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For now until things change and I’m ever optimistic they will, every book on dyslexia should include this chart. Credit: @LitMomsNC
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Highly recommend this series if you are interested in helping young children learn to read, whether as a parent, educational professional, or someone else seeking to be informed by a large body of scientific evidence. #dyslexia #scienceofreading
All @apmreports podcast episodes and articles abt how kids learn to read collected here: features.apmreports.org/read…
Listen here:
Hard Words podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
At a Loss for Words podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
What the Words Say podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Ugh. Doing some background reading for the next book (Writing for Life) and came across a detailed analysis of Marie Clay's 'Emergent Literacy' work and how it decimated the teaching of handwriting. Is there nothing she hasn't ruined for children?
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When you hear “guided reading”, this is how your children are being taught to read. Teaching students compensation strategies to work around actually reading words is teaching the habits of poor readers. How have so many intelligent people been duped for so long?
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There is ONE strategy to “recognize and take apart words.” DECODING. That is the ONLY strategy. Everything else is disproven nonsense!!!!
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$6,500 at Hamline Univ. for my Reading License, and all I learned was a disproven theory of how the reading brain works.
$700 for LETRS training, and I learned the most current research regarding systems of language underlying literacy for word recognition and lang comprehension.
📣Happy News! Today, @GovTimWalz signed into law our LETRS bill📚 with funding for 2 years! Thank you to our entire community of support, our Coalition partners (@DysInstMN, IDA-UMB, & @GrovesAcademy), our lobbyist at @apparatusmn, & Sen @rcchamberlain1 & Rep @heather_edelson!
This has to STOP!!!
ICYMI - @FountasPinnell tweeted a "learning tip" to parents yesterday to do an exercise with their child that actually creates poor readers: word-guessing based on the word's first letter.
After some pointed criticism, they quickly took it down.
But here it is.
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I would refer to Hanlon’ razor: Never attribute to malice which can be adequately explained by incompetence. A weak knowledge culture makes you succeptible to ‘whole language’ and the like because it appears to make ‘intuitive’ sense. And that is how education ‘reason’.
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How demoralizing for a child struggling with reading to be essentially told, “If you would just get your mouth ready and turn your brain on higher, you’d be a better reader.”
Here, according to @LucyCalkins, are her suggested prompts for teachers trying to “scaffold” struggling readers. She learned them, she says, by watching Reading Recovery teachers and Gay Su Pinnell work with children.
From her book, modestly titled “The Art of Teaching Reading.”
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MDE is now accepting public comment on the use of flexible federal funds dedicated to education by the American Rescue Plan. The comment period closes June 1. Learn more and share your feedback here: survey.alchemer.com/s3/63491…
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Reupping this because as everyone gears up for accelerating learning using federal funding, the tendency will be to add more stuff, rather than pare down and focus on getting right what is most critical.
“When people try to make something better … they don’t think that they can remove or subtract unless they are somehow prompted to do so"
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