Just your daily reminder that you can adhere to the vast body of evolving research that is the science of reading and still value classroom libraries and libraries and books. 🥰 Pictured: my middle school intervention classroom 2 years ago 🩷
Reading is the epicenter of equity. I enjoyed this conversation so much. We want students to find the joy of reading. But they also need the justice that comes from solid skills and knowledge building. Joy and justice need to be braided together like Scarborough’s reading rope.
If we keep going back to what we already believe to confirm what we believe, are we learning or just confirming our bias?
I did that with balanced literacy…then I discovered decades of research that contradicted so much of what I truly believed. #knowbetterdobetter