Dr. Sam is back. After a month’s long hiatus due to health issues, I am resuming my blog posts. This week’s blog will be of special interest to those of us who work with older readers, 4th grade and above. Dr. Gwen Pauloski is a teacher, researcher, consultant, and author. In

Dr. Sam is back. After a month’s long hiatus due to health issues, I am resuming my blog posts. This week’s blog will be of special interest to those of us who work with older readers, 4th grade and above. Dr. Gwen Pauloski is a teacher, researcher, consultant, and author. In

@williamakerns Evan Robb @ericlitwinbooks Jordan Page Joseph Pizzo Reading Recovery Community MoCTE Reading Recovery Europe Kathy Brown please have a look

Thanks for the kudos Tim Rasinski. Teachers will find some great ways to help their students understand and care about what they read.

This week, Dr. Sam’s blog addresses the issue of bias in education, specifically the kind of personal bias that educators may inadvertently introduce into their classrooms. He interviews Dr. ClauDean ChiNaka Kizart about her book, Beyond Implicit & Explicit Bias: Strategies for

Happy 4th of July

In this week’s blog, I express my concerns about the current state of the reading field. Many of my fellow teachers are leaving the field, and many others are expressing dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs. According to a recent poll, this is especially true of the

Yes This!

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Today's post is the second installment in the series, "Let's Stop the Nonsense and Start Using Common Sense to Guide Our Reading Practices." It explores the latest brain research findings on the reading process. It dispels myths, such as the claim that the brain is always

Thanks Tim Rasinski for sharing this excellent resource.

Thanks to Paul Thomas for this excellent piece on the "reading crisis" and to Reading Recovery Community for sharing. This piece is a must-read!

Thanks to playrol for sharing this podcast from Timothy Shanahan. Another "must see"

Today’s post is the third installment in the series entitled Let’s Stop the Nonsense and Start Using Common Sense to Guide Our Reading Practices. When states mandate programs without considering how much instructional time will be needed to carry them out, they often leave the

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Yes this. I'll also note that England has used a mainly synthentic phonics apporach for years yet they have yet to deomonstrate that it improves comprehension, especially upper level comprehension.

Today’s post is Dr. Sam’s advice for getting your literacy program off to a good start this year. It includes ideas and practices from both points of view about reading instruction. Have a great school year! doctorsam7.blog/2025/08/09/dr-…

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Today’s post is Dr. Sam’s alternative to following the “new paradigm” being offered by some in the SOR community. doctorsam7.blog/2025/08/16/whe…