Send us a text The One About… TRL Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines with Dr. Maria Murray and Kari Kurto Here is a link to the Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines: https://www.thereadingleague.org/curriculum-evaluation-guidelines/ When reviewing curricula for Tier I instruction, it is essential to ensure they do not include instructional practices that are not aligned with the scientific evidence base of how children learn to read. The Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines are designed to highlight any n...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Send us a text The One About… The Most Effective Reading Instruction with Dr. Molly Ness “New and Not-Well-Known Research about Reading Disabilities: Teachers Want to Know” https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2280 What is the Most Effective Instruction for Learning Disabilities? What is Dyslexia? What is DLD? Why is the Conversation around Reading Disorders So Confusing? Reading Screening Versus Learning Disability Identification Instruction in Word Recognition and Language Co...
Apr 10, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 70
Send us a text The One About… Text Structure and Inference Skills: The Latest Instructional Research! Marianne Rice, Tiffany Peltier, and Kacee Lambright “What’s the Main Idea?”: Using Text Structure to Build Comprehension Alida K. Hudson, Julie Owens, Karol A. Moore, Kacee Lambright, Kausalai (Kay) Wijekumar First published: 27 April 2021 https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/trtr.2016 “Inference skills for reading: A meta-analysis of instructional practices.” Rice, M., & ...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 69
Send us a text The One Ab out… What’s the Research Behind Mouth Picture Sound Walls? quote Cows don't fly, and phonemes don't have lips. So why is this unsupported practice spreading like wildfire? quote - Dr. Jan Wasowicz Article: “Articulatory Gestures in Literacy Instruction” Laura MacGrath, MSc(A) January 25, 2024 https://learningbydesign.com/professional-development/spell-links-blogue/ Bio: Dr. Jan Wasowicz **External Consultant for Purdue University, Interdepartmental Science of Reading In...
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 68
Send us a text The One About… Joan Sedita on Comprehension Strategy Instruction “The growing awareness of the role of background knowledge in supporting reading comprehension has led some literacy professionals and journalists to proclaim that building background knowledge is the main solution to addressing students’ difficulties with reading comprehension.” – Joan Sedita This episode takes a look at the actual research supporting the teaching of instructional strategies. Article: “In Support of...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 67
Send us a text The One About… Is the term “SoR” overused? Special Guest Emina McLean SoR? SoL? Structured Literacy? Quote: “What does that mean? In concrete terms, what exactly would you observe in these schools with respect to documentation, assessment, or teaching and learning practices that would mean they were an “SoL” school, and who decides?” – Emina McLean “There is no such thing as an “SoR” curriculum, resource, or set of instructional techniques.” Article: https://www.eminamclean.com/po...
Mar 15, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 66
Send us a text Latest Curriculum Craze Part 2: Fact Checking with Dr. Leslie Laud and Jennifer Binis Quote: “Idea: A simpler solution to tossing out expensive materials (that do align to SoR) would be to guide teachers in which strategies are most effective and to prioritize these.” Article by Leslie Laud: Where is the Evidence? https://shorturl.at/betuQ Dr. Leslie Laud Bio: Dr. Leslie Laud is the founder of Think SRSD (Self-Regulated Strategy Development) for reading and writing. She is a write...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Send us a text The One About… Where is the Evidence? Latest Curriculum Craze Part 1 “A call to pause the rush to buy new curricula until we see consistent evidence of impact” is urged. “There is no SoR stamp of approval!” Our guests for this episode will give you unbiased, unaffiliated, and unrehearsed real talk. Article by Dr. Leslie Laud https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xz7FJxXSwlx7zZkeTLDc4TfYzRedsimkb8kcKpHz_sE/edit Nathaniel Hansford (Nate Joseph) Bio https://www.solutiontree.com/ca/nath...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Send us a text The One About: Dr. Holly Lane: Does Expensive Mean Better Quality? Dr. Holly Lane couldn’t sell a used car for $500 until she raised the price to $1500! Why do we think free or inexpensive products aren’t very good? Why do we think programs and materials with all the bells and whistles are better? Science or Snake Oil Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc5SjcLQ5Ow Bio: Dr. Holly Lane is a faculty member at the University of Florida and director of the University of Florida L...
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Send us a text The One About-Speech to Print Flaws with Lyn Stone Quotes: “I’m not saying you’re in a cult, but if you call yourself a ‘Brand Name’ practitioner/school/trainer, there’s a bit of a problem. And that problem occurs when your method is touted as the method to end all methods. That problem occurs when the only tool in your toolbox is fairly blunt, and when you’re expressly forbidden to use ‘outside’ tools even though you know you should.” “They identify so closely with the brand, tha...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Send us a text The One About… Conflating Leveled Books with Predictable Texts with Tiffany Peltier and Wiley Blevins On X (Twitter), a storm of tweets began when Tiffany posted this, “Leveled readers are great for building fluency. However, a SUBSET of leveled texts, known as PREDICTABLE texts ARE NOT great for building decoding skills and SHOULD NOT be used in kindergarten for teaching phonics.” Wiley responded, “We need to do a virtual roundtable discussion about this. There is so much researc...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Send us a text The One About… Strengthening Implementation of SoR with Dr. Maureen Ruby “Only when state leaders implement a literacy strategy that prioritizes teacher effectiveness will states achieve a teacher workforce that can strengthen student literacy year after year. This report outlines five policy actions states can take to ensure a well-prepared teacher workforce that can implement and sustain the science of reading in classrooms across the country.” NCTQ: “Five Policy Actions to Stre...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Send us a text The One About… Community-Based Screening Tools with Kate Mayer Kate Mayer is a literacy advocate and co-founder of Everyone Reads PA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure that every educator and parent in PA has the tools they need to help all students read to the best of their potential. Earlybird Education: https://earlybirdeducation.com/ Parent Involvement vs. Parent Engagement: What’s the difference? Article: Community-Based Early Language and Literacy Screening...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Send us a text The One About… Community-Based Screening Tools with Kate Mayer Kate Mayer is a literacy advocate and co-founder of Everyone Reads PA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure that every educator and parent in PA has the tools they need to help all students read to the best of their potential. Earlybird Education: https://earlybirdeducation.com/ Parent Involvement vs. Parent Engagement: What’s the difference? Article: Community-Based Early Language and Literacy Screening...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Send us a text The One About… What Should PA Instruction Look Like? Tiffany Peltier, and Marianne Rice PhD Quote: “The case for using letters in PA instruction is stacking up higher & higher… New research out today: An upside-down U curve found for oral PA instruction (diminishing returns after less than 10hrs) but the OPPOSITE—increasingly MORE returns after 16 hrs—for PA w/LETTERS ��” Tiffany Peltier, PhD Tiffany Peltier bio: Tiffany Peltier is a Research Scientist in the Collaborative...
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Send us a text Dr. Rasinski’s bio Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D. Professor of Reading Education Reading and Writing Center Kent State University 401 White Hall Kent, OH 44242 trasinsk@kent.edu ; 330-672-0649 website: www.timrasinski.com Twitter: @timrasinski1 Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University and director of its award-winning reading clinic. He also holds the Rebecca Tolle and Burton W.Gorman Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership. Tim has written over 250 ...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Send us a text The One About… A Speech to Print Approach with Dr. Jan Wasowicz A blog by Lyn Stone entitled, "Culty as Charged: Why the Speech to Print Movement Needs Brakes,” and the follow-up blog, “Culty as Charged Part 2: Some Solutions,” raised some eyebrows, but advocates of the approach seemed to shy away publicly from presenting a counter-argument. Articles: https://lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as-charged-why-the-speech-to-print-movement-needs-brakes/ https://lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as-...
Jan 16, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Send us a text The One About… Assemblymember Bobby Carroll: Literacy Advocacy and Dyslexia Article: NYT By Grace Ashford January 3, 2024 As Literacy Lags, Hochul Proposes Changing How Schools Teach Reading https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/nyregion/new-york-schools-reading-hochul.html “This is a very big deal, because for a long time, people realized what was going on was not working. But nobody stood up and said it needs to change,” Ms. Hochul said… Assembly District 44 Assemblymember Robert C...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Send us a text The One About: Curriculum Champions vs. the Teacher Defenders with Kata Solow “Right now, the Curriculum Champions are winning politically. But if they’re going to succeed in the classroom, they need to win over teachers on the ground. This piece is about how to do that.” – Kata Solow Article: Comprehensive Reading Curricula and Teacher Expertise: We Don’t Have to Choose November 30, 2023 by Kata Solow https://www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/comprehensive-reading-curricula-and-teach...
Jan 02, 2024•58 min
Send us a text The One About… Steve Dykstra’s Interpretation of Mark Seidenberg’s Slide Deck “Identifying what was wrong was much easier than figuring out what to do instead.” – Mark Seidenberg How are teachers supposed to figure out what to do? The Literacy View asked Dr. Steve Dykstra to help us unpack Mark Seidenberg’s Yale presentation slides. Mark Seidenberg’s Slide Deck from a presentation given at Yale: “Where Does the Science of Reading Go From Here?” https://seidenbergreading.net/wp-con...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 16
Send us a text The One About… Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System is Often Wrong with Dr. Matt Burns “Flipping a coin would actually be better.” “And when it came to identifying the readers who were furthest behind, Burns said, the BAS performed even worse.” Matt Burns is a special education professor who conducted the first peer-reviewed study of the BAS. Article: “Benchmark Assessment System Reading Test is Widely Used and Often Wrong” APM Reports December 11, 2023 by Christopher...
Dec 13, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Send us a text The One About… Is ‘Sold a Story’ an incomplete and oversimplified picture of reading? Nick Covington’s view “My goal with this piece is to capture the questions and criticisms that I have not just about the narrative of Sold A Story but of the broader movement toward “The Science of Reading,” and bring in other evidence and perspectives that inform my own. I hope to make the case that “The Science of Reading” is not a useful label to describe the multiple goals of literacy; that i...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Send us a text The One About: Don’t Discard Comprehension Strategies with Jennifer Buckingham “The arguments against teaching comprehension skills and strategies are often framed in these ways: 1) Comprehension skills/strategies are not generic, transferable competencies … so it is a waste of time to teach them explicitly. 2) Reading comprehension is highly dependent on background knowledge … so an evidence-based approach to reading comprehension is to always embed instruction in a knowledge-bui...
Dec 05, 2023•59 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Send us a text The One About: Reading Curriculum Overhaul with Journalist Alex Zimmerman Is your school using a new reading curriculum for the first time this year? �� Do you feel prepared to transition to a new reading curriculum? �� Is your district “building the plane while flying it?” �� Teachers and school leaders are struggling to make the transition. Alex Zimmerman Bio: Alex Zimmerman is a reporter at Chalkbeat New York, where he covers the largest school system in the country. Before cov...
Nov 29, 2023•51 min•Season 3Ep. 12
Send us a text https://thinksrsd.com/ The One About… Powerful Writing Instruction with Karen Harris We have a body of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and best practices that can make a meaningful difference in writing development for our students. The Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model of instruction for writing results in meaningful improvements in students writing across grades 1-12. Bio: https://search.asu.edu/profile/1980816 Book: Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students Ar...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Send us a text The One About… Nell Duke: What We Truly Know About the Teaching of Reading What does research tell us about cueing; what does research tell us about phonics instruction; what does research instruction tell us about teaching areas other than phonics; what does research tell us about causes of reading difficulty; how do psychometricians set cut scores for NAEP and other assessments; and what about decodable texts? Nell Duke shares her wealth of knowledge with us and gives us the rea...
Nov 11, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Send us a text The One About… Selective Research Findings with Dr. Michael Paff As we turn back the clocks, it looks like some educators are trying to turn back the hands of time and poke holes in the Science of Reading. Article “Stories Grounded in Decades of Research What We Truly Know About the Teaching of Reading” Quote “While science of reading advocates claim to be research-based, decades of reading scholarship have recognized reading as complex, multidimensional, and mediated by social an...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Send us a text The One About: Writing Research with Stephen Ciullo and Alyson Collins Article #1 The findings from this study raise substantial concerns about the preparation to teach writing general and special education teachers receive in their preservice program. “Special and General Education Teachers’ Beliefs About Writing and Writing Instruction” Steve Graham, EdD, Alyson A. Collins, PhD, and Stephen Ciullo, PhD https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00222194221092156 Article #2 Mor...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Send us a text The One About… Dr. Pamela Snow’s Call to Action: School Leaders Article “School Leaders and Reading Instruction: Time to demand LESS than more autonomy” http://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2023/10/school-leaders-and-science-of-reading.html?m=1 Bio https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/pcsnow Blog: The Snow Report http://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/ Twitter (X) @PamelaSnow2 Highlight: “In all cases, the evidence will evolve over time, but you are expected to apply the highest standards as they ap...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Send us a text The One About… An Attorney’s View on the Reading Recovery Lawsuit Do they have a case? What does this mean for Fountas and Pinnell? Will Ohio State University go in the same direction as Columbia University? John McGrath is a New York attorney representing parents and their children in meetings of school district Committees on Special Education and section 504. He also represents them in special education and section 504 due process hearings and appeals. He was a member of the Min...
Oct 27, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 6
