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Reading Road Trip

I’m excited to get back to summer and podcasts like reading-roadtrip.castos.com This weeks episode with Jen O’Sullivan was packed with great examples for teaching students inferencing skills! I’m looking forward to more from the Reading Road Trip!

This was a great conversation!

2025 minus 2005 equals 20 years of lost progress

Not just relevant to Australia- this is worth reading.
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Brilliant!

Powerful words from Executive Director Kareem Weaver to ground our work heading into the new year: “[Literacy] is the gateway to society, its institutions, and the basic opportunities that we want for all kids.”

#Literacy is the fundamental #CivilRight of our time.

Do certainly model and scaffold skills, but I think the goal should be learning, not completion of a task or product.

Inclusion is not Assimilation: Understanding communities of identity and diversity YouTube video by Five Moore Minutes

I love this. It makes me think about an often frustrating attempt ensure a student produces what everyone else is producing rather than honouring what a student creates or learns at their level when they participate in the process.
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For more information about using retrieval practice in the classroom, I appreciated thus interview with Blake Harvard www.podbean.com/ew/pb-35bpr-...

Theses aren’t my ideas, they are a few I’ve assembled from some awesome people - They are features of UFLI - Foundations and could be incorporated in other programs. I’m interested in hearing other strategies…. 9/n

Practice reading decodable passages that include the skills that have been learned. Reading passages helps connect to meaning, helps develop automaticity, and allows practice reading with prosody… 8/n

Spaced practice - spread out practice across sessions and across days - fold-in review from previous days into new lessons … 7/n

Interleaved practice - alternate different items - when you return to the target skill it is a new retrieval from memory and that makes the memory stronger … 6/n

Speaking aloud when reading and writing - have students say the sounds as they write them and read the word aloud when they’ve written it… 5/n

Scaffold when students are having difficulty so they get the correct answer (e.g., continuous phonation for blending or demonstrating (I say-you say))… 3/n

Repeat retrieval of correct answers. -Have students repeat a correct answer after an error…. 3/n

whole group responding: if one person gives an answer, then that’s retrieval practice for 1 student; if everyone answers then everyone gets the practice … 2/n

This week I got to talk with teachers about the importance of retrieval practice and maximizing opportunities to respond when teaching students who are struggling to learn literacy skills. Some useful strategies: … 1/n

Researchers Created a Phonics Program With ‘Dramatic’ Results. How It Works Consistent implementation of the 30-minute-a-day program fueled the results.

Systematic explicit instructiin and practice is not the only important part of teaching reading, but it is very important. New research published about UFLI- Foundations highlights the effectiveness of this phonics program. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

I’ve recently had some interesting conversations about spelling challenges. I’ve appreciated two podcast episodes from Melissa and Lori Love Literacy for practical ideas (episodes 191 with Pam Kastner and episode 192 with Savannah Campbell)
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How long should we teach phonics? I really should start this blog with, ‘Another thing I get asked about a lot is…’ because this issue comes up time and again: timescale. Here in England, where daily phonics is mandatory as initial in...

Another blog addressing a commonly asked question.
This time I'm looking at how long we should teach phonics when learners have additional needs, especially a complex profile.

www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com/post/how-lon...

Sold a Story makes TIME Magazine’s Top Ten Podcast list 🥳

Congratulations to Emily Hanford who has done so much to highlight how so many children have been taught to read (but haven’t learnt) using ineffective methods.

If you haven’t already, do find it and listen 🎧

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Examining the Effects of Silent Independent Reading on Reading Outcomes: A Narrative Synthesis Review from 2000 to 2020 Encouraging children to read extensively has been a widely recommended approach to developing reading. The National Reading Panel published a review study reporting inconclusive findings regarding ...

The NRP Report (2000) found that independent silent reading may not be the most efficient use of instructional time.

In our study, we replicated the finding. We found that independent reading didn't contribute meaningfully to improved reading outcomes.

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Love this teachers insight and personal experience! I think her experience resonates with a lot of teachers.

Why does the brain matter for education? New edition of BJEP has four papers which are very interesting. Made some notes, here's a quick 🧵⬇️

How Structured Literacy Will Upend Canadian Education - Macleans.ca Canadian students have struggled to read and write. That stops this year.

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Continued and stronger advocacy efforts are needed to promote recruitment in the profession. To find out more about school psychology in Canada, visit the CPA Section of Educational and School Psychology website: cpa.ca/sections/edu...

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Lawsuit calls reading curriculum 'deceptive' and 'defective' A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that the educational publishing company Heinemann falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based.”

“A product-liability case reaches beyond the secrecy of parents doing this over and over.”
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Heinemann and three of its top authors - Lucy Calkins and Fountas&Pinnell - promoted “deceptive” and “defective” products. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...

There is a shortage of school psychologists across Canada. This is at a time where access to critical mental health services for children and youth is becoming increasingly problematic. Canada needs more visibility of the profession, recruitment, training opportunities and programs.