Timothy Shanahan
@ReadingShanahan
Timothy Shanahan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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http://www.shanahanonliteracy.com 19-07-2013 17:18:00
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Emily Hanford I would start with Adams's Beginning to Read - or Steve Stahl's summary (link below) & Chall's stages. Kay Stahl & I have a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Ed Psych that updates the stages. And Timothy Shanahan's blog always cuts through the nonsense thereadingforum.com/2022/02/09/beg…
It is not kind to remove the pressure until children are older. It’s cruel. Timothy Shanahan has an analogy about the ramp to get from point A to point B - it’s the same distance, and you can either make it long and gentle or short and steep. 5/
Jesse Steif Dana A Robertson Amy Campbell Dr. Michael Paff 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ I would love to figure out how all the misunderstandings develop both in print and in craft knowledge. Timothy Shanahan address a lot of these, but some (e.g., learning styles as Dana & Amy noted) just won't die
Listening to a certain podcast got me thinking of Reading First... Timothy Shanahan
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I won’t try to simplify that point for Twitter, because one can’t, any better than Timothy Shanahan did.
And it’s a 201-level piece, so apologies to parent friends.
But here’s where things get really obscene.
👉 The ‘just right books’ approach also relies on the idea that we can easily, accurately measure a child’s reading level.
As Timothy Shanahan explains…
That’s a seriously flawed premise, for many reasons:
shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/rejecting…
A great post on Reading Recovery from Timothy Shanahan I have been loving trawling my way through his blog. A goldmine.
These paragraphs stand out. RR is really not worth it’s expense and is a flawed programme in what it excludes shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/me-and-re…
Timothy Shanahan “The texts used for fluency practice should be at levels that we would traditionally label as frustration level. We want students to improve their reading of these texts from their oral reading attempts, feedback, and rereading.” Ss get vocabulary and knowledge benefits as well!
And if you’re wondering “what about instructional levels?”, Timothy Shanahan calls that idea “fake news”.
shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/new-evide…
Deborah McCallum I coined this years ago. The quote is - leveled texts lead to leveled lives. AWT
Something I am grateful for? I learned to read easily. I'm a fast reader. It's helped a LOT on this project. I have read hundreds of articles/books about the science of reading over the past 5 years. I recommend 10 things here (was SUPER hard to choose).
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Another cracker episode of the Melissa & Lori Love Literacy podcast
This time they are with Timothy Shanahan whose blogs I am diving deep into as they have so much gold included.
He shared so much knowledge here.
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Here's advice from nationally known reading expert Timothy Shanahan.
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Halle Quezada Agree with your assessment of kids skimming to get the right answer rather than reading for meaning. Science of reading has never been just about decoding, though. It's about all parts of language and literacy. The k-12 teachers of reading comprehension like Timothy Shanahan 1/2