Heard in CA legislature, 1996: You could justify cueing 20 years ago. 'Now they know that’s not a good strategy to teach kids. It’s a second-rate strategy that will mean they’re slow readers for the rest of their life.'
1996!
Ep 3 of Sold a Story tomorrow. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

We've got episode 3 of Sold a Story coming tomorrow.
You can find links to it in various podcast apps, download the episodes, find transcripts, get a reading list - all here: features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Educators, RUN don’t walk to listen to this one

Retweeting for others to provide responses...
Thoughts?

Episode 3 of Sold a Story will be available tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts.
Here's a link on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sol…

Coming up tomorrow, on Episode 3 of Sold a Story:
'We will only support effective programs. Effective reading strategies.'
'I’d have five teachers two inches from my face just tearing me up and down.'
features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Coming up in Ep 3 of Sold a Story:
'You know the sense of war with reading wars is very true. That you just absolutely reject other pieces of evidence coming at you because you can’t believe their source.'
features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

So far on Sold a Story:
'He doesn’t look at all the letters in words. And reading is miserable for him.'
'It didn’t seem like they were really teaching em to read. It seemed like they were teaching em to sound like they could read.'
Ep 3 drops tomorrow. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

If you love a child who is learning to read in the public school system, you will want to listen to this…just give it 15 minutes and I guarantee you will be furious, just like I’ve been for the last 3 years. I was literally crying and shaking with anger that we accept this.

'These revisions (by Calkins) mark an inflection point for balanced literacy.'
It leaves 'all the other folks in the camp with one of two recourses—they either choose to change with her, or they have to go find a new camp.' edweek.org/teaching-learn…

The new Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Teaching Reading are out.
'While the materials have undergone large-scale changes, reading researchers and educators who have reviewed excerpts offer mixed reviews on their potential to shift classroom instruction.'
edweek.org/teaching-learn…

Lindsey Jones-Renaud Emily Hanford Fountas & Pinnell KnowledgeMatters I give away Emily Hanford Christopher Peak’s podcasts like they are candy.

But I am also one of the people who shared Natalie Wexler’s 💯 comments above. She’s right.

We need to be having both conversations.

More on the Phonics Patch risk in thread:

When Wayne County Schools in south central Kentucky got its hands on Natalie Wexler's The Knowledge Gap, the district quickly realized phonics alone wouldn't solve its literacy problems.

'I was like, 'Wow, this is it.''

Chapter 5 of Between the Lines:
courier-journal.com/in-depth/news/…

Today, did diagnostic for 8th grader - does not know some consonant sounds & many of his vowel sounds & is embarrassed about his reading skills.

He said, 'I can't sound out words.' (These are simple words by the way - napkin, dome, stiff.)

Kareem J. Weaver Sherri Lucas-Hall-Designed to Teach Tutoring Svcs

🧵

‘Every year, I 'find' students in my 8th grade classes who cannot read at even an upper elementary level.’

Read this thread:

We have a new episode of Sold a Story coming tomorrow (Thursday).
features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Totally worth the listen.

I made public comment at my school district’s board meeting tonight, urging people to listen to “Sold a Story”. How about you? *Tip: Email the link to superintendent and BOE right after commenting. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/