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Friday, February 4, 2022

Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane

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Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's...
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Monday, July 26, 2021

This Will Be Our Last Post Together

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Reading Aloud to Henry Walsh The little counter that accompanies the analytics page of this blog tells me that this is my 400th post. I have...
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Monday, July 5, 2021

The 7th Annual National Give-A-Kid-A-Book-Day is July 6th

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Tomorrow, July 6, 2021 is the 7th Annual National Give-A-Kid-A-Book Day (NGKBD). This is the yearly celebration dedicated to getting books i...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Defeating the Science of Reading Narrative, Part 4: Addressing School Boards, Legislatures and the Public

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This series of posts has taken aim at the false Science of Reading (SOR) narrative that posits that the Simple View of Reading (SVR; Gough a...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Defeating the Science of Reading Narrative, Part 3: Building Bridges with Colleagues

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Over the past month I have been exploring the Science of Reading (SOR) narrative that has dominated discussion about reading instruction for...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Defeating the Science of Reading Narrative, Part 2: Talking to a Parent

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In my first post in this series on how teachers and literacy specialists can push back at the Science of Reading (SOR) narrative currently d...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Defeating the Science of Reading Narrative, Part 1: Focus on the Child

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Last week I wrote a post, Unsettling the Science of Reading Narrative  that highlighted a new report from the Literacy Research Association...
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Monday, April 26, 2021

Unsettling the Science of Reading Narrative

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Call me crazy, but when I learned I had cancer a few years ago, I did not immediately consult a journalist. Instead I chose to see an oncolo...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

Rhythm and Rhyme: Read Alouds that Support Reading Fluency

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April is Poetry Month and here at Russ On Reading we continue our exploration of poetry read alouds for children with a few books that tell...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

My Learning Loss Formula: Read, Write, Share

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As I addressed in a post a month ago , the Henny Penny's of the world are running around clucking about how the pandemic will lead to i...
Monday, April 5, 2021

April Is Poetry Month! Here Are Some Poems to Eat

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April is Poetry Month. April is the perfect time for celebrating poetry through read alouds. Actually, any time is the perfect time for read...
Monday, March 29, 2021

The Reading Helper

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I have a teaching certificate that says I am a qualified Teacher of Reading, and Reading Specialist and Supervisor, but from the time I got ...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Reading Aloud for Better Human Understanding: Asian-American Picture Books

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Prejudice and hate crimes against Asian-Americans are not new in the United States, unfortunately, but the recent increase in bias related c...
Monday, March 15, 2021

Henny Penny Discovers Learning Loss

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It was a difficult year in the barnyard with all the animals confined to their own homes because of a mysterious and devastating avian flu. ...
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Monday, March 8, 2021

Read Alouds for Social Justice: The Right to Vote and Combatting "The Big Lie"

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This past Sunday was the anniversary of  "Bloody Sunday," the attack on peaceful protestors on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, ...