I’ve told the story many times about how I discovered the world of the phonograms. In this blog post I’ve gone back to 1996 and pulled out some evidence of what drove me to start using the phonograms. This is a long post because I am sharing a long post from the misc.education newsgroup. I’m […]
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I’ve been reviewing my posts from the 1990s in a newgroup called misc.education the last few days. It has been interesting to read the discussions about reading back then. That was the heyday of the “reading wars” and people could get pretty wound up. It was all about phonics vs. whole language. My plan is
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I want to share two resources that even after 30 years of teaching reading reinforced my beliefs and taught me some things that I did not know. I’ll share each of them and include a few comments. I hope you listen to the first one and watch the second one. First is the podcast Sold
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