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12 Essential Elements of a Comprehensive Reading Program
Season 23 Episode 2
In 1997 Congress asked the National Institute of Children’s Health and Development to work with the U.S. Department of Education to estab…
1 year, 11 months ago
I Was Wrong: Holy Books, Sacred Texts, Theories, Paradigms, and Reading Instruction
Season 23 Episode 1
Questions: How is it that one interprets the same thing differently across time? How is it that one can read a book, have an experience, or observe …
1 year, 11 months ago
I'm Woke!!!
Season 22 Episode 24
There are conditions that tip the scale in favor of some groups and restrict or disadvantage others. There are communities, that seem to get the eco…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Evangelical Department of Education of Minnesota
Season 22 Episode 23
The Minnesota Department of Education has become the Evangelical Department of Education of Minnesota. It takes a deficit view of teachers. They kn…
2 years ago
The Read Act and the Lessons Beyond the Lesson
Season 22 Episode 22
Recently, the Minnesota State Legislature passed the Read Act, sponsored by Democratic representative Heather Edelson. It’s a law based on the fad o…
2 years ago
Zealotry in the Guise of Reading Science
Season 22 Episode 21
I could live with a science of reading if the SoR zealots applied the scientific principles they claim to worship and adore to all of reading reality…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Dance and the Joy of Reading Instruction
Season 22 Episode 20
Dance has much to teach us about five areas of reading instruction:
1. Motivation.
2. Practice.
3. Dance dyslexia
4. Whole dancing.
5. Context.
Whenever…
2 years, 1 month ago
Science of Reading: Where's the Joy?
Season 22 Episode 19
There is only one emotion that is good for learning: happiness and all its derivations. Joy is a derivation of happiness. Joy is pleasurable. Huma…
2 years, 1 month ago
Reading, Religion, and Time
Season 22 Episode 18
There are five kinds of time in a reading class.
Allocated time. There is the amount of time allocated for instruction.
Off-task time (OTT). Ther…
2 years, 2 months ago
LETRS, Orthographic Mapping, and Ignorance Mapping
Season 22 Episode 17
In becoming responsible consumers of educational research, we must ask four questions when claims are made that research has “proven these expensive,…
2 years, 2 months ago