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Teachers Are Not Delivery Mechanisms
What Happened to Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
A literacy group recently asked a simple question: What classroom practice do you wish would disappear forever?
The answers were revealing. Teachers and parents named clip charts, popcorn reading,…
Fluency Is an Outcome More Often Than It Is a Treatment Target
Why repeated oral reading does not solve the language problems that keep older students stuck
Timothy Shanahan recently wrote about fluency instruction for older students in middle and high school, and I appreciate the care…
Handwriting in Literacy Intervention: The Dance of the Pen
How handwriting becomes part of word study when students are ready
I do not bring handwriting into literacy intervention because I am sentimental about pencils or cursive. I bring it in because, for many students,…
The Morpheme Is the Natural Habitat of the Grapheme
A teacher asked Timothy Shanahan a very reasonable question: Is there a grade-level list of morphemes to teach in K–5, something like the Fry sight word list but for morphology?
That question makes perfect sense inside…
When the Control Group Changes, the Conclusion Changes
When people cite the National Reading Panel, they often talk as if the panel simply gathered the studies, added them up, and reported what the research said.
But research does not work like a photocopier.
A meta-analysis…