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[quote=Anonymous]Oh some people do not like their thoughts challenged.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/677722959/why-milli...etter-teaching-can-do-about-it

Thank you for teaching our kids and dedicating yourself to professional development. Sincerely. You are doing a great job and I truly appreciate it. The link is for those who might want the other side of the story. It can be read with eyes or ears.  See what I did there? Referenced dyslexia again. Say my name, say my name saymyname

That article surprised me as someone who was trained almost 20 years ago in balanced literacy. It meant we had phonics training, phonemic awareness AND cueing systems (does it look right, sound right make sense) together and almost coequally.  I was seriously taken aback that teachers thought that kids should guess a word based on a picture and beginning sound all by itself. Who would do that?  When the kid can't get the word we were taught to delve deeper. Ex. ok so what you guessed didn't make sense with the letters in the word, so sound it out. Also, from what I was trained in you used word families, rhyming words and vowel patterns and increasing phonological awareness activities to continue growth in "balanced literacy." What possessed these teachers to just let the kids get away with using picture clues?  Just my take, but I felt like the article from NPR used teachers who inappropriately implemented reading of any type, not just "balanced literacy"[/quote]

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