These (exemplary) teachers offered reading instruction that was balanced, w/ explicit skills instruction embedded in great literary text w/ lots of opportunities for students to talk with each other about reading and the writing they were doing.”
Richard Allington
4th Ed intro
For those still waging a baseless battle against balanced literacy, I urge you to read this 5th Ed research informed book. The greatest gift we can give children is to build a foundation of knowledge that is grounded in research.
Anything less is mere opinion and hearsay!
@DrMPaff@baddogmarley @EdWeekTeacher What’s amusing about your reply is that much of the research TC includes is MORE recent that what I have read in the recent blogs and articles trashing TC. Let’s not do the my research vs. your research. It’s way too juvenile.
@baddogmarley @EdWeekTeacher Absolutely. Every unit book has a scope and sequence for reading and writing. They align reading and writing. Each unit consists of … word accuracy, comprehension and fluency in K-2. The TC phonics program is a separate set of unit books.
@EliseLovejoy@baddogmarley @EdWeekTeacher I’ve met her and worked with teams of staff developers who never once said to ignore phonics. We always included phonics. I guess that was well before my time.
@baddogmarley @EdWeekTeacher Really? Because it sounds like that’s all the chatter is about in the blogs and podcasts. The media obviously believe it’s only about phonics.
@DrMPaff@baddogmarley @EdWeekTeacher Seriously? Surely you haven’t read any of the TC curriculum to reply that. They have five units per grade K-2 of a phonics curriculum that they have had for years….
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Love looking at new and classic picture books through the lens of a writer!
Fifth graders from Birch School embarked on a trip to Project Adventure at The Adventure Park at Long Island last week. Students worked collaborative to complete physical tasks and help each other succeed!
An overfocus on phonics, while blaming other elements of reading instruction as "failing" kids, sells newspapers.
Providing a responsive approach to reading instruction, including phonics in authentic contexts, builds readers.
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@hareematifkhan I'm amazed so many "experts" are jumping on this bandwagon without even really knowing the UOS across the grades. I can't wait to read all the SOR labeled programs districts are purchasing already. I won't hold my breath for the depth, quality, level of PD provided by the UOS.
It paints such a deliberately myopic picture of TCRWP and the Units of Study. Written to inspire indignation, to be retweeted, to whip people up into a frenzy. As usual, the victims of this kind of story are children. And workshop teachers. And Staff Developers. Sick of this.