Updated May 12, 2016 Shocking Facts: 23 Statistics on Illiteracy in America By Rebecca Lake READ MORE ABOUT FINANCIAL LITERACY MONTH
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doctorsam7 Seeking Ways to Grow Proficient, Motivated, Lifelong Readers & Writers Word Callers: The forgotten children of the great debate in reading by Dr. Sam Bommarito
Last week I talked about the early childhood aspects of the historic ILA session led by P.D. Pearson and Nell Duke. This week I had intended to wrap things up, focusing on the issues surrounding comprehension. I’m postponing that until next week because of some new information about word callers that I found. It came from one of the informational pieces Nell Duke provided. I thought it was important enough to rate its own blog entry. Regular readers of the blog know that I often try to call attention to the needs of all readers, not just those who need intense, direct, systematic phonics. You see, there are some readers for whom an intense, direct instruction synthetic phonics approach doesn’t work. They exist. I know they exist because just this morning, on a readings coach’s Facebook site, teachers were talking about such a student. I know they exist because, over the years, I’ve had first-hand experience with some. I also know they exist because Simple View of Reading folks have never produced the “works with almost all the children almost all the time” study. (In fairness, neither have the constructivists!). |
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