When you call out 3 cuing (guessing) and how it fails kids, this is the response you get from a Reading Recovery teacher. More worried about protecting pedagogy than students. Blame the parents. Never the instruction. It is a cult.

And another one. Ableist bull 💩 from a Reading Recovery teacher talking about dyslexic students.

This is what can happen when teaching is taught according to the research. Check out the reduced lunch rate for when people try to say it’s socioeconomic not instruction. 💣 💥

I see so many Twitter debates on the efficacy of MSV instruction vs phonics instruction, focused on theory and anecdote. We have 15 meta analyses on phonics showing positive outcomes. Where is the meta analysis showing 3-cueing improves reading outcomes?

Let that sink in 👇

“The program Clay developed didn’t teach poor readers the secret techniques used by good readers—it standardized & institutionalized the things that poor readers do to cover up & compensate for the fact that they can’t sound words out.” ⁦Reading Recovery Community⁩ nybooks.com/articles/2023/…

Everyone reading the EdWeek articles on writing instruction should also read this thread. It’s such a straightforward, practical detail RE personal narratives: “I wasn’t there, so I can’t tell her” what details she might add to her writing.

On Knowledge: 🧠 ‘Background knowledge is necessary for cognitive skills’, ‘Thinking critically & logically are not possible without background knowledge’, ‘to analyse & to think critically requires extensive factual knowledge’ (D.T. Willingham, 2009). 1/2

As always, Kareem J. Weaver dropping truth bombs!

📣 JICYMI: Advocating for evidenced based instructional practices and resources aligned with SOR is NOT advocating for scripted classrooms with zero teacher autonomy. #listenandlearn #untilEVERYkidcanread

It’s 2023 & you thought 3-cueing was dead? We keep hearing,”No one does that. No one calls it that anymore.” Here a tragedy unfolds…Another SBISD Parent How-To. @missypurcell1 Dian Prestwich, PhD California Reading Coalition Katy Literacy Coalition Sandra Norman 🇨🇦 High Five Literacy Dr. Michael Paff (he/him) dyslexiamom Pamela Snow

Wow!! 100-year-old Grace Linn stood up to Ron DeDantis and demanded Florida STOP banning books at a Martin County School Board meeting! Everyone needs to see this!

No. Just no. I refuse to read more. An entire generation of teachers & so many children lined her pockets. Her job was to be a teacher…. A continual learner. She basked in idolatry. She didn’t do her job. So no. No more. Let’s get this right without her. #lucygaslights

Let me reframe this: bipartisan efforts to try to ensure the most disadvantaged children receive high quality instruction keep running into deeply entrenched ideologues who refuse to teach kids literacy coherently and systematically because it doesn't give them fuzzy vibes.

Kareem J. Weaver I don’t agree with Lucy Calkins that our job is to produce “avid” readers. Let’s produce *proficient* readers who decide for themselves what they want to be avid about. I also think it’s messy when we’re told BL includes phonics but it’s then contrasted w phonics 🤔 Emily Hanford

When you send your kids to school there is zero chance they will come back to you "a different gender," but there is certainly a chance they won't come back at all. Yet some of y'all are worried about the former while shrugging about the latter.