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NEW THIS MORNING: Reading Recovery, one of the world’s most widely used reading intervention programs for young children, took a hit to its credibility today following the release of a new study at the American Educational Research Association conference. apmreports.org/story/2022/04…
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The poverty limitation on educational success is largely surmountable but change will require schools to recognize their pedagogical shortcomings and adopt practices that are adequate to the problem.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll boldly say it again:
Every teacher, educator, literacy coach, reading consultant, and superintendent of literacy curriculum should know this document and read it👇🏼 – at Kingston, Ontario
Do the math. 80 minutes x 5 days per week, x 9 months of school year, x 3 years = how many hours?
STILL 66% of kids by fourth grade don’t reach grade level reading. How is this OK? Help us, help teachers: boonphilanthropy.org/fundrai…
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Why - it takes more than phonics. Teachers aren’t trained in the science of reading so those hours are generally unproductive. boonphilanthropy.org/the-rea…
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When asked to identify the five essential components of literacy instruction only 55% of K-2 teachers and 78% of postsecondary teachers could identify all five according to The International Literacy Association (ILA) survey of Fall 2019.
Source: EdWeek Survey
K-2 teachers reported spending an average of 80 minutes a day on literacy instruction and 31 minutes of that time was devoted specifically to phonics (EdWeek Survey). This falls slightly below the National Reading Panel's daily recommendation!
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Learn more about Dr. Jeff Howard from Efficacy Institute in this interview. ow.ly/jXuj50HNs2W
British A. Robinson, president and CEO of the Barbara Bush Foundation, said, “America’s low literacy crisis is largely ignored, historically underfunded and woefully under-researched, despite being one of the great solvable problems of our time." #EndTheNationalReadingCrisis
Nicole Williams in the equity article wrote, “as we fight to make this country authentically just, we must recognize schools are the linchpin for that political and civic process.” This is a tremendous read, thus we are sharing: unbounded.org/blog/the-scien…
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Growing the Science of Reading Movement — Goyen Foundation goyen.io/blog/growingthemove…
In Grades K–2 and older remedial readers all benefit from being taught how to use letter sounds & spelling patterns to decode words. The use of systematic approaches or programs of phonics instruction were found to be more effective than more opportunistic/responsive approaches.
