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“Narrowing the gap…word by word.” 👏🏾👏🏾 @ExcelinEd @Literacy_Wynns #MS

If have questions about the value of and measures of fluency, I highly recommend this one. ⁦@janhasbrouck⁩ puts on a master class &⁦@literacypodcast⁩ continue to outdo themselves with contributions to the field. 👏👏👏⁦@SonjaSantelises⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mel…

Interpreting research and translating it into classroom practice requires specialised knowledge and a lot of time, and the prospect can be daunting and demotivating for busy teachers who are newly aware of the Science of Reading. View the report at fivefromfive.com.au/wp-content/upl…

OK! Now the reporters at CNN are following the lead of @ehanford and sharing the "news" about failing reading programs in U.S. schools! This should get some attention!

“A revolt over how children are taught to read, steadily building for years, is now sweeping school board meetings and statehouses around the country.” nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/…

@MJ18912000 @reading_league @FaithBorkowsky @DTWillingham As a cognitive scientist, I would characterize background knowledge and skill differently than what Shannahan has done. Knowledge and skill are differentiated in the memory literature with knowledge here roughly equivalent to declarative memory, which is explicit...

Last week, three superintendents wrote an absolute barn-burner of an OpEd, and I'm not sure it has had enough attention. @SonjaSantelises @drgoffney @principallearns with straight talk about the nation's most popular curriculum: k12dive.com/news/reading-r…

Twitter needs a "blue check" for people who've actually taught children to read - consistently and across demographics. That'd help people understand if they're listening to a theorist, successful practitioner, or somebody who's full of it.

@ehanford Assessing a student’s writing about a specific, well-studied topic is a better indicator of comprehension, language knowledge, and use.

An article worth reading: "The conclusion that comprehension tests are an invalid assessment of reading comprehension begs the question: how can we measure it? It would seem that we can’t. There is just too much going in in the brain.." thereadingape.com/single-post/20…

THREAD: WATCH THE RIGHT TO READ ON NATIONAL READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY. In celebration of National Reading Month, The Right to Read will be available to all audiences for free online for one week.

Let’s talk about “implementation fidelity” - one of educations most agitating terms… 🧵 (1/7)

📺 You can find individual clips complied in a single YouTube playlist. Tap the link below!👇 youtube.com/playlist?list=…

MAKING INSTRUCTION EXPLICIT 🧵 In this thread, I have summarised some of Barak Rosenshine’s most influential points from his 2002 presentation on making instruction explicit. You can watch the full presentation here: 📼 youtu.be/gvv-y7SHLeM Hope you find this useful! ⬇️

🧵We adapted Sold a Story for @reveal. It's been airing on public radio stations this weekend. You can hear it on the Reveal podcast too. revealnews.org/podcast/how-te… 1/5

Who's right? Emily Hanford or her critics. Shanahan weighs in. #sthash.JCVXqpHQ.dpbs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/is-emily-…

“In recent years, a growing number of experts, advocates and parents have argued that educators are often too quick to blame poor reading outcomes on families, particularly low-income ones, overlooking schools’ complicity in perpetuating unequal access.” washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

A cognitive horror story

@ChaseJYoung1 Levels & grades are human constructs-useful in characterizing products like texts. If we are measuring a complex cognitive process like reading, we should be measuring those essential processes. Like word recognition & its subskills and vocabulary/knowledge.

The elephant in the room. Popular SoR says leveled texts and instruction are out. But, they say kids need to read at grade level expectations. So, um, how is that not a level? Psychometrics of DIBELS (and others) is validated by norm reference to age/grade. I'm confused. Help?

Teachers who disagreed with the letter Hechinger published in response to "Sold A Story" might want to reach out to @calliepatton and have a look at the response from a teacher's perspective, and consider signing on. From the perspective of this non-teacher it's right on point.