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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fundations is a Science of Reading-aligned curriculum that the Sold a Story podcast would support, FYI. It is explicit phonics instruction intended to be used on a whole class basis — exactly the sort of thing the podcast talks about going on in the Florida classroom she fawns over.[/quote]
Yes - but no one is certified in it.

The school may have purchased the program - but not the next step of getting teachers certified in the program.  They send 1 or 2 people from each school to a DCPS training session that is for 2 days - and those people are supposed to train all the other teachers.[/quote]

We used to have a trainer come out to give feedback on instruction. That ended years ago. New teachers go to a quick training, but it isn't sufficient to teach the content well. They also say teach with fidelity but tell teachers to squeeze a 30 minute lesson into 15 minutes and to also do a [b]series of isolated phonological awareness activities unsupported by current research (Heggerty)[/b]. When I did it as a new teacher I couldn't teach certain components because I didn't have a complete set. I rarely had students building words using manipulative tiles because my sets were missing many letters. [/quote]

What research supports this?  Just curious. I have only seen the opposite. I usually do PA activities in small group. They take 2 minutes. [/quote]

To improve phonemic awareness, focus on quickly connecting phonemes to graphemes. The suite of phonological awareness activities may be less useful past prek and mid K. This article (https://www.nomanis.com.au/single-post/i-think-i-was-wrong-about-phonemic-awareness) and Tim Shanahan's writing (https://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/rip-to-advanced-phonemic-awareness) discuss this in detail. Most kids don't require advanced phonemic awareness work; it's mainly beneficial for kids with phonological processing issues. Short segmenting and blending warm-ups like in UFLI or a targeted small group lesson linking words to upcoming content are more effective and should only take a few minutes.[/quote]

Heggerty is mainly used in PK & K,where the above suggests they are in fact useful. Our Heggerty lessons are also like 2-5 minutes tops.[/quote]

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