The Literacy View

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Which ELA Practices Should Be Removed? Anna Geiger, The Measured Mom, Weighs In! Casey Jergens lists many of the practices he has dropped from his ELA block over the years. Article: PUTTING THE “STRUCTURE” INTO STRUCTURED LITERACY: PART 4 By Casey Jergens 3/27/24 The Goyen Foundation Blog https://www.goyen.io/blog/putting-...

The One About… APM Journalist Christopher Peak Breaking News Episode! Sold a Story Christopher Peak joins us to discuss his THREE APRIL articles with us about the collapse of literacy giants: Reading Recovery, Lucy Calkins, and Fountas and Pinnell, along with Heinemann Publishing. Christopher Peak Bio: Christopher Peak is an investigative reporter who covers education for APM Reports. He co-report...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Kathy Rastle on Having a Database of Books for Children The Children and Young People’s Books-Lexicon (CYP-LEX) provides unprecedented information into the nature of vocabulary in books that British children aged 7+ read and is a highly valuable resource for those studying reading and language development. Shouldn’t we hav...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Is Reading Recovery the Science of Reading? Article: “Reading Recovery IS the Science(s) of Reading and the Art of Teaching” Debra Semm Rich, Saint Mary’s College https://readingrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/JRR_23-2_Spring_2024_Rich.pdf Quote from the article: “The purpose of this article is to compare and contr...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… TRL Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines with Dr. Maria Murray and Kari Kurto Here is a link to the Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines: https://www.thereadingleague.org/curriculum-evaluation-guidelines/ When reviewing curricula for Tier I instruction, it is essential to ensure they do not include instructional practices that are...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… The Most Effective Reading Instruction with Dr. Molly Ness “New and Not-­Well-­Known Research about Reading Disabilities: Teachers Want to Know” https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2280 What is the Most Effective Instruction for Learning Disabilities? What is Dyslexia? What is DLD? Why is the Conversation...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Text Structure and Inference Skills: The Latest Instructional Research! Marianne Rice, Tiffany Peltier, and Kacee Lambright “What’s the Main Idea?”: Using Text Structure to Build Comprehension Alida K. Hudson, Julie Owens, Karol A. Moore, Kacee Lambright, Kausalai (Kay) Wijekumar First published: 27 April 2021 https://ila....

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One Ab out… What’s the Research Behind Mouth Picture Sound Walls? quote Cows don't fly, and phonemes don't have lips. So why is this unsupported practice spreading like wildfire? quote - Dr. Jan Wasowicz Article: “Articulatory Gestures in Literacy Instruction” Laura MacGrath, MSc(A) January 25, 2024 https://learningbydesign...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Joan Sedita on Comprehension Strategy Instruction “The growing awareness of the role of background knowledge in supporting reading comprehension has led some literacy professionals and journalists to proclaim that building background knowledge is the main solution to addressing students’ difficulties with reading comprehen...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Is the term “SoR” overused? Special Guest Emina McLean SoR? SoL? Structured Literacy? Quote: “What does that mean? In concrete terms, what exactly would you observe in these schools with respect to documentation, assessment, or teaching and learning practices that would mean they were an “SoL” school, and who decides?” – E...

Latest Curriculum Craze Part 2: Fact Checking with Dr. Leslie Laud and Jennifer Binis Quote: “Idea: A simpler solution to tossing out expensive materials (that do align to SoR) would be to guide teachers in which strategies are most effective and to prioritize these.” Article by Leslie Laud: Where is the Evidence? https://shorturl.at/betuQ Dr. Leslie Laud Bio: Dr. Leslie Laud is the founder of Thi...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Where is the Evidence? Latest Curriculum Craze Part 1 “A call to pause the rush to buy new curricula until we see consistent evidence of impact” is urged. “There is no SoR stamp of approval!” Our guests for this episode will give you unbiased, unaffiliated, and unrehearsed real talk. Article by Dr. Leslie Laud https://docs...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About: Dr. Holly Lane: Does Expensive Mean Better Quality? Dr. Holly Lane couldn’t sell a used car for $500 until she raised the price to $1500! Why do we think free or inexpensive products aren’t very good? Why do we think programs and materials with all the bells and whistles are better? Science or Snake Oil Webinar: https://ww...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About-Speech to Print Flaws with Lyn Stone Quotes: “I’m not saying you’re in a cult, but if you call yourself a ‘Brand Name’ practitioner/school/trainer, there’s a bit of a problem. And that problem occurs when your method is touted as the method to end all methods. That problem occurs when the only tool in your toolbox is fairly...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Conflating Leveled Books with Predictable Texts with Tiffany Peltier and Wiley Blevins On X (Twitter), a storm of tweets began when Tiffany posted this, “Leveled readers are great for building fluency. However, a SUBSET of leveled texts, known as PREDICTABLE texts ARE NOT great for building decoding skills and SHOULD NOT b...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Strengthening Implementation of SoR with Dr. Maureen Ruby “Only when state leaders implement a literacy strategy that prioritizes teacher effectiveness will states achieve a teacher workforce that can strengthen student literacy year after year. This report outlines five policy actions states can take to ensure a well-prep...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com The One About… Community-Based Screening Tools with Kate Mayer Kate Mayer is a literacy advocate and co-founder of Everyone Reads PA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure that every educator and parent in PA has the tools they need to help all students read to the best of their potential.  Earlybird Education: https://earl...

The One About… Community-Based Screening Tools with Kate Mayer Kate Mayer is a literacy advocate and co-founder of Everyone Reads PA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure that every educator and parent in PA has the tools they need to help all students read to the best of their potential.  Earlybird Education: https://earlybirdeducation.com/ Parent Involvement vs. Parent Engagement:...

The One About… What Should PA Instruction Look Like? Tiffany Peltier, and Marianne Rice PhD Quote: “The case for using letters in PA instruction is stacking up higher & higher… New research out today: An upside-down U curve found for oral PA instruction (diminishing returns after less than 10hrs) but the OPPOSITE—increasingly MORE returns after 16 hrs—for PA w/LETTERS ��” Tiffany Peltier,...

✨ Work with us💜 📩 Email: FaithandJudy@theliteracyview.com Dr. Rasinski’s bio Timothy Rasinski, Ph. D. Professor of Reading Education Reading and Writing Center Kent State University 401 White Hall Kent, OH 44242 trasinsk@kent.edu ; 330-672-0649 website: www.timrasinski.com Twitter: @timrasinski1 Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University and director of its a...

The One About… A Speech to Print Approach with Dr. Jan Wasowicz A blog by Lyn Stone entitled, "Culty as Charged: Why the Speech to Print Movement Needs Brakes,” and the follow-up blog, “Culty as Charged Part 2: Some Solutions,” raised some eyebrows, but advocates of the approach seemed to shy away publicly from presenting a counter-argument. Articles: https://lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as-cha...

The One About… Assemblymember Bobby Carroll: Literacy Advocacy and Dyslexia  Article: NYT  By Grace Ashford  January 3, 2024  As Literacy Lags, Hochul Proposes Changing How Schools Teach Reading  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/nyregion/new-york-schools-reading-hochul.html “This is a very big deal, because for a long time, people realized what was going on was not working. But nobody stood up a...

The One About: Curriculum Champions vs. the Teacher Defenders with Kata Solow “Right now, the Curriculum Champions are winning politically. But if they’re going to succeed in the classroom, they need to win over teachers on the ground. This piece is about how to do that.” – Kata Solow Article: Comprehensive Reading Curricula and Teacher Expertise: We Don’t Have to Choose November 30, 2023 by Kata...

The One About… Steve Dykstra’s Interpretation of Mark Seidenberg’s Slide Deck “Identifying what was wrong was much easier than figuring out what to do instead.” – Mark Seidenberg How are teachers supposed to figure out what to do? The Literacy View asked Dr. Steve Dykstra to help us unpack Mark Seidenberg’s Yale presentation slides. Mark Seidenberg’s Slide Deck from a presentation given at Yale: “...

The One About… Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System is Often Wrong with Dr. Matt Burns “Flipping a coin would actually be better.” “And when it came to identifying the readers who were furthest behind, Burns said, the BAS performed even worse.”  Matt Burns is a special education professor who conducted the first peer-reviewed study of the BAS. Article: “Benchmark Assessment System Rea...