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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Why Johnny Can't Read? Part 6: Quality of Instruction

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In order to be highly successful literacy instruction must be informed, balanced, and responsive. To the extent that literacy instructio...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Why Johnny Can't Read? Part 5: Environmental Resources

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I grew up 70 years ago in a lower-middle class suburb, with a bunch of other lower middle class kids. When I was a school aged child, I ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Why Johnny Can't Read, Part 4: Brain-Based Reading Disorders

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The 4th in a series on vulnerable readers Some children's brains have difficulty processing written words and text. Such childre...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Why Johnny Can't Read, Part 3: Racism and Segregation

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Woman arrested for trying to read a book in public library, Albany, GA, 1962 The United States of America, legendary land of opportunity...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Why Johnny Cant Read, Part 2: Income Inequity

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In an earlier post, here, I laid out what I believe to be the multiple reasons for reading failure in this country: income inequity, r...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Why Johnny Can't Read? It's Complicated, Ms. Hanford.

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H.L. Mencken, American journalist and social satirist once said, "For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simp...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Poetry Month: On Friday We Get Pizza

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It was true 50 years ago; it is true today. Friday is pizza day n the school cafeteria. I clearly remember the anticipation I felt as a st...
Monday, April 20, 2020

John Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury and the Power Of Choice Reading

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During my monthlong period of social isolation I have been re-reading several books by John Steinbeck: The Long Valley, Cannery Row, East...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

A Poem to Celebrate National Librarians Day

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Unquestionably, one of the great tragedies in public education over the last two decades has been the decline in the number of librarians...