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Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

Reading and Language

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Science Of Reading Advocates Are Teaching Children To Guess At Words, Andrew P. Johnson Feb 2023

Science Of Reading Advocates Are Teaching Children To Guess At Words, Andrew P. Johnson

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

Tim Shanahan, Louisa Moats, Linnea Ehri, Wilson Reading Systems, Orton-Gillingham profiteers, SOR advocates, the International Dyslexia Association, and other plucky little phonics-first penguins are advocating that meaning-based reading teachers teach children to read by guessing guess at words. This of course is nonsense.


Reading Curriculums And Interventions, Andrew P. Johnson Jan 2018

Reading Curriculums And Interventions, Andrew P. Johnson

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

This paper describes some ideas for designing and implementing research-based reading interventions for struggling readers (mild, moderate, and severe).