Int elem. teacher; 🇬🇧 in 🇯🇵; interested in the teaching & learning of reading & writing and the science of learning.
Tokyo, Japan
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Very helpful thread from @Suchmo83 for anyone with a grade 1 classroom library that was set up for readers workshop but needs to work differently to fit students who are building their decoding and fluency.
@Suchmo83 What are your thoughts on organising a classroom library/bookcorner for grade 1 sts? Is it good to remove all levelling and put all books into topic areas for fiction and nonfiction?
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It's official. The Word Mapping Project website is up, and the curriculum is now available for purchase. A big thank you to everyone who supported me during this process. Let's do right by kids.
wordmappingproject.com
Thanks for this brilliant recommendation⬇️
Will order for our our grade 1 students.
What type of sound wall (if any) do you recommend in a classroom where phonics is taught? @SWLiteracy
2/4 Why is this type of reading not addressed more explicitly? Is this a "deliberate narrowing of scope" or do you see the same principles applying equally to standalone content-area and expository texts?
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**New** chapter on “Literacy” just published in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science. The whole series is super, accessible chapters and no paywalls, a great resource for teaching. oecs.mit.edu/pub/epclh9no/re…
Hi @Booktrust, have you removed the Poetry Prompts lesson guidance PDFs from your site? They were online just a few months ago. Could you please reupload or share a link? Many thanks!
booktrust.org.uk/resources/f…
In independent reading sessions, I alternate weeks: graphic novels allowed one week, not the next. Otherwise, some students read only graphic novels. Too harsh? Or a fair way to broaden their reading diet? @TeresaCremin
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Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research led by @a_lopukhina shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.
Any primary teachers out there who have read "Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain: Sequences and Behaviour to Enable Mathematical Thinking in the Classroom" from Craig Barton. Does it work well in the primary setting and are there sequences available for primary?
This video ⬇️ is a must watch for anyone wanting to understand how reading works and how it all fits together. It is the same reading map used in Chris's second book, Primary Reading Simplified, but having it explained like this really does help!
Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map.
The Reading Map - A Primer
youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?si=XIXC… via @YouTube
If you know, you know and if you don't, you don't! I recommend you buy Chris Such's new book so you will be in the former camp when it comes to reading instruction! 😀
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@ReadingShanahan has kindly responded to my thread in the comments in his blog.
However, I think that he has missed some of what I wrote. Here is his response:
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If you are interested in reading instruction, evidence and thoughtful, productive debate, I'd highly recommend that you follow @mattw009.
I'm not certain we agree about everything, but I deeply respect his willingness to discuss ideas in good faith.
Brilliant thread from @Suchmo83! Is support for a gradual accumulation of knowledge through extended reading essentially the same as support for a knowledge building curriculum or is that a different focus and philosophy?
@ReadingShanahan is a titan in the field of reading instruction, and lots of people I respect have praised this excellent blog, so I'm wary of disagreeing with *part* of it.
But, I'd like to offer an alternative perspective anyway.
A thread.🧵⬇️
"Decades of rsch show that tching syllable patterns to assist in decoding has value (Bhattacharya & Ehri 2004; Diliberto et al. 2009; Doignon-Camus & Zagar 2014) as long as we keep in mind that some syllble patterns are more reliable than others." Is there still a US UK divide?
"Insufficient phonemic awareness is the most common cause of word reading difficulty (Ashby et al. 2022; Kilpatrick 2015)" (taken from p.120 from Shifting the Balance 3-5 by Cunningham, Burkins, Yates)
Is this actually correct?
Is there a strong reading/literacy community on Bluesky? Are folks moving across since Musk got involved in US politics? Curious if @margaretmckeow2 @Suchmo83 @ReadingShanahan and others in the literacy world are making the switch! 🤔
Nobody writes about reading like Chris Such does - his second book gives you everything you want to know about elementary reading instruction. Ordered in Japan and it arrived the next day. For non-Brits, you can still make it work for your context! 😀@Suchmo83
