If you are a K-4 reading teacher anywhere in Canada, we invite you to participate in our study. Your role? A quick survey about foundational rdg skills now and again a year from now 📖 questionnaire.simplesurvey.com/f/s.aspx?s=495…
This addresses something my students often ask about. "[D]ifferent operational definitions of reading disability will differentially impact which students get identified [and treated]... and this varies by the race and ethnicity of the student." SchotzDr. Sara A. Hart
All my reading peeps: what is a classic, conceptual paper on word reading that stands the test of time, that you think everyone learning about reading development should read? Not a data paper but a nice, juicy conceptual paper.
Click through for the takeaway thread -- or even better, read the paper! (Open access!) The one that jumped out at me: "the most anxious students are the ones who don't know how to learn."
"Explicit instruction isn't old-fashioned; it's essential." 3starlearningexperiences.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/exp… From Kindergarten to high school to university.
Just published meta-analysis (open access): Morphology instruction is effective for improving reading and spelling outcomes, and spelling effects can transfer to untrained words – but we still need to learn more about why it works and how best to teach it doi.org/10.1007/s10648…