The music is the demo will perk anyone up!

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Again (and as I've suggested way too many times in the past few weeks), you may want to see Emily Hanford's piece on phonics, ignoring evidence, using intuitively pleasing (but unproven) methods, etc. Is as good as I've seen for a while. apmreports.org/story/2018/09/…

And many teen and adult beginners

When you look carefully at much reading instruction, you find the assumption is that kids learn to be expert readers by mimicking what expert readers do. It doesn’t work that way. There’s a series of steps involved to go from novice to expert. readingelephant.com/2018/10/11/lea…

New blog post: “Decodable books for older students: finding the hook” focusontap.com/decodable-book…

Great thread.

Why is everyone and their mother talking about phonics? – eduvaites eduvaites.org/2018/10/13/why…

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Funny Phonemes Phonemic Awareness app for older learners — Phoneme set e... youtu.be/zeVEM4YMFZM via YouTube

Dyslexic teen struggles and overcomes in new decodable text: Lit Sick focusontap.com/dyslexic-teen-…

Decodable text meet Rex: a story full of animals and charm focusontap.com/decodable-text…