Tag: literacy
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Learning Like Students – Empathy and Foundational Reading Instruction
Empathy has many meanings. The one I prefer sources from Brene Brown, who in I Though It Was Me, explained, “understanding someone because you know the experience.” In some cases, as an educator – and I will speak for myself – empathy related to “learning to read” comes about in two ways: 1) remembering an…
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“I Don’t Like Answering Questions”
“Mr. Stygles, we don’t like having to answer questions about reading and use evidence to explain our answers.” This was the consensus after our third and final interim assessment, the April administration of the Elementary Reading Attitudes Survey (ERAS). The first question related to academic reading, asked students if they liked answering questions after reading.…
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Shattering Readers’ Image
I hate being the heavy. Without question, I “cause” students to “hate” reading. Frankly, I hate it. It’s not intentional. It’s just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Teaching students grades five and above is tricky. Not because the content or the standards is more difficult, it’s because the confusing nature of…
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Strong (Avid) Readers
I’ve decided to devote this summer in the name of relearning how to be a literacy teacher. Since the #soldastory podcast and instantaneous implementation of Science of Reading programs, I realized I know virtually nothing about literacy education (That’s not true, but…) With a few weeks before summer school starts, I am taking several Science…
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Encountering New Vocabulary
Research and I have a dubious relationship (Not that research cares). For starters, I love research of all kinds. Educational, psychological, veterinarian, and any research that converges on topics and fields that I take an interest in. Research is what I call pleasure reading and a form of pleasure reading that I am more than…
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Reading Is Not an Entitlement
Politically speaking, I am a fan of the Science of Reading. All things aside, what I like most about it is basing instruction on research and responding to results accordingly. But I am not a fan of, what I have seen with implementations of the science of reading is the loss of reading in classrooms,…
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Reading Rates, Equity, and Shame
After speaking at #litMath24, I was very surprised to learn that, in the Science of Reading era, benchmark assessments haven’t slipped away. That’s neither a good or bad thing. I still use them because they remain a great tool to peer into the child’s process of accessing text and to what extent they can. It’s…