Deb Z

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Deb Z

Deb Z

@DebZRead

WI Master Educator - Reading Specialist, Learner, Literacy Advocate

Katılım Şubat 2011
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Matt Renwick
Matt Renwick@ReadByExample·
We trust teachers to take care of our kids, to meet their basic physical, social, and emotional needs. So it shouldn't be a stretch to also trust them to teach readers, writers, listeners, communicators.
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Dr. Mary Howard
Dr. Mary Howard@DrMaryHoward·
1/5 Please read/share this article grounded in research vs media misinformation. Stories Grounded in Decades of Research: What We Truly Know about the Teaching of Reading (Catherine Compton-Lilly, Lucy K. Spence, Paul L. Thomas, Scott L. Decker) ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tr…
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Dr. Mary Howard
Dr. Mary Howard@DrMaryHoward·
A3 FIRST we must let go of old curricular tools that are minimizing that complexity and thus blinding us to the unique needs of children. We must stop investing millions in scripted program with rigid tests. Gullibility is not a responsible approach. #G2Great
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Helen Proulx
Helen Proulx@HelenProulx2·
Abolishing standardized testing would mean we stop treating children like standardized students #G2Great
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Dr. Sam Bommarito
Dr. Sam Bommarito@DoctorSam7·
In this 2-part interview, Dr. George Hruby makes a case for using the sciences of reading (with an s!) to help solve our literacy problems. He also pushes back on the recent trend of passing legislation that effectively bans all reading programs except those following a narrow phonics-first approach to reading. doctorsam7.blog/2023/08/05/an-…
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The Obama Foundation
The Obama Foundation@ObamaFoundation·
A must read from President @BarackObama to our country’s librarians: "I hope you’ll join me in reminding anyone who will listen — and even some people you think might not — that the free, robust exchange of ideas has always been at the heart of American democracy."
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Dr. John Spencer
Dr. John Spencer@spencerideas·
As someone who taught reading intervention at middle school in a school that focused on a phonics-centric Science of Reading approach, here are a few concerns I see with this new trend and how it might be applied to older students: 1. I worry that we will focus so much on skill development that we fail to see the need for reading for pleasure in order to develop reading endurance. At the middle school level, one of the key elements in helping students increase their reading scores was the role of endurance. 2. An emphasis on phonics, blending, and phonemic awareness at the middle school level sometimes fails to recognize the role of critical thinking, vocabulary, and prior knowledge in reading comprehension. I’ve seen highly fluent readers fail reading tests for these reasons. 3. The one-size-fits-all systematic approach that rejects balance might work at younger levels but the reasons a 13 year old is behind will often be far more varied. 4. I’m really worried that some of the people screaming the loudest about research haven’t read the research in-depth and seen the limitations in actual studies, the nuances in the finding, and the context of the studies (rarely about middle school) 5. I want to make sure we are paying attention to accessibility. I know many people who are dyslexic and became avid readers once they could use voice-to-text and audio readers. My fear is that readying will be defined solely as decoding written text and certain people who might thrive as readers will be forced to do drills where they lean into their weakness without learning about assistive technology. I’m no expert in early literacy but I am concerned with prescriptive approaches that treat middle school students in the same way as a second graders. I’m worried about prescriptive, singular solutions.
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Paul Thomas
Paul Thomas@plthomasEdD·
NCTQ Fordham Foundation ExcelinEd (Jeb) GW Bush Deans for Impact M4L SOR Curriculum bans/censorship An anti-teacher/public schools THREAD runs through and holds these together Careful with whom you align ...
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