Amazing 🙌🏻

Rob Randel @Addysg_Cymraeg Lynne Neagle Welsh Government Education I'd gamble that the person who wrote that - like plenty of education academics - genuinely doesn't know the difference between cueing strategies (which is what seems to be espoused by the quote you shared) and set for variability (which Shanahan espouses below):

Wiley Blevins, EdD

Benefit to teaching *phonological awareness ALONE*? Paper by Melissa Stalega with me and others about whether there is a benefit to teaching PA alone... Basically: Teaching PA: better PA Teaching PA WITH letters: better PA AND better word reading. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In evidence-based practices that explicitly teach phonics skills!

More of this please!!! Reading Recovery ending in New Zealand. The end of an ineffective reading program that gave the illusion of working but that scientific evidence has proven again and again not only is ineffective but detrimental to the reading development of the most

Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… "The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero."

”Accommodations can not come at the expense of teaching children to read. Audiobooks or speech-to-text apps for writing, while great tools, should not be a replacement for teaching children to read.” Orly Klapholz

"What is dyslexia?" Thanks to Decoding Dyslexia California for this infographic. DyslexiaConnect.com #dyslexia #adhd #dysgraphia

🇨🇦 “Manitoba teachers and school leaders have been urged to change how they spot struggling readers and intervene sooner to boost literacy rates.” winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2… #UniversalScreening #RightToRead #mbed

Yes - literacy reform is absolutely necessary; literacy is a human right!

Does this mean that if a division in Manitoba chooses not to use Reading Recovery that they don’t receive the Literacy & Numeracy grant? 🤨

I’m shocked that this needs to be said, but: If you have a student who struggles to read, you should not blame the parents, for not reading enough. Lots of kids with dyslexia struggle to read despite having their parents read to them every day. You don’t know what happens in a

Many have strong feelings about teaching reading. Kids desperately need us to get out our feelings and do what's proven to work for the greatest number of students. Bottom line.