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    A Child is Not a Mollusk

    July 14, 2020 /

    In some sense, without evidence-based instruction, a child could be more like a mollusk in that they will withdraw from the learning process and build a shell to protect themselves from the emotional anguish of feeling less-than in the classroom.

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    And Seem a Saint

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    We don't tend to assume kids can swim and toss them in the deep end with no preparation to teach them how to swim. We'd rightly assume there's a 50/50 chance they'd drown without first being shown how to swim step-by-step. Someone I met once, likewise, compared education to tossing baby birds out of a nest, and the thought naturally occurred to me that, just as an ill-prepared swimmer might drown, a baby bird with no flying experience has a good chance of dying of a broken neck on the forest floor without being taught how first.

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A Brief Review of Research on Forms of Instruction

An Open Letter to Student Teachers

Basic Phonics Test

Children of the Code

The Critical Reader

Emily Hanford on Reading Instruction

The Fallacy of Balanced Literacy

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The Fluency Factory

How Do Kids Learn to Read?

How to Teach Reading

Importance of Background Knowledge

International Foundation for Effective Reading

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Letter to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Education

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Lifelong Literacy

Literary Performance of Ex-Reading Recovery Students

Louisa Moats

The Maloney Method 

Marilyn Adams on the Three Cueing System

Nancy Young: Reading, Writing, Spelling

Orthographic Mapping (Video)

Phonics Myths

Phonological Awareness Screening Test

Preventing Reading Failure: An Examination of the Myths of Reading Instruction 

Reading Matters (Mark Seidenberg)

Reading Rockets

Readsters (Learning Center) 

Right to Read Project 

Running Records

The Science of Reading: Evidence for a New Era of Reading Instruction

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Ten Phonics Research Findings

The Simple View of Reading

The Spell of Language (Jean Tucker)

Structured vs. Typical Literacy

The Three-Cueing Model: Down for the Count? 

Why Aren’t Kids Being Taught to Read?

Why Reading Is Not a Natural Process 

 

 

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