Read Takoma

This is lovely.

This teacher was worried children weren’t getting bedtime stories. So she began reading them — on Facebook. Keisha Yearby began “Ms. Yearby’s Reading Adventures” in March, and it’s developing a national following.

Looking forward to another great event sponsored by DC branch of the International Dyslexia Association.

3D Bridge from Phonemic Awareness to Reading & DCIDA Annual Membership Meeting If dyslexics think in 3D, then let’s teach them in 3D! Add a new level to any O-G/Multisensory Structured Language approach by teaching in three dimensions. Phonemic objects aren’t just for teaching initial consonants anymore. Learn how to teach blending, segmenting, and even spelling and readin...

Another wonderful article by Emily Hanford with some takeaways:

"In 2016, the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, reviewed the syllabi of teacher preparation programs across the country and found that only 39 percent of them appeared to be teaching the components of effective reading instruction."

"One of the most consistent findings in all of education research is that children become better readers when they get explicit and systematic phonics instruction."

"The students who suffer most when schools don't give their students insight into the code are kids with dyslexia. They have an especially hard time understanding the relationship between sounds and letters. If you're a child with dyslexia from an upper-income family, someone is probably going to notice that you're struggling and pay for you to get the help you need. But kids from poor families often get left behind, and there's evidence that a disproportionate number of them eventually end up in the criminal justice system. American prisons are full of people who grew up in poor families, and according to a study of the Texas prison population, nearly half of all inmates have dyslexia. They struggled to read as kids and probably never got the help they needed."

Why aren't kids being taught to read? Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set up to fail.

This is a great fact sheet from the International Dyslexia Association on the importance of the study of morphemes, the smallest units of meaning in a language, when teaching reading and spelling.

Morphological Awareness: One Piece of the Literacy Pie – International Dyslexia Association Morphological Awareness: One Piece of the Literacy Pie Share This: ` For a downloadable PDF, click here. Morphological awareness is a skill that helps students read and spell. When researchers have studied different skills that contribute to student performance on reading and spelling tasks, morphol...