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Misunderstandings of the Science of Reading
By Sharon Vaughn and Nathan Clemens

The Reading League Journal
Fall 2024

Nathan Clemens Bio
Professor and Department Chair, Department of Special Education
NATHAN CLEMENS, Ph.D. Professor and Department Chair of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Clemens’ research and teaching focuses on improving instruction and intervention for students with reading difficulties or dyslexia in preschool through adolescence. More specifically, his work is aimed at improving teachers’ use of assessment data to better understand their students’ progress, and to help them align and individualize evidence-based interventions with their students’ unique learning needs in order to promote stronger outcomes. Dr. Clemens is also interested in research that seeks to better understand interventions and key practices that are effective for students with the most intensive learning difficulties. He earned a Ph.D. in school psychology from Lehigh University.

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Two points of important information from the research article or something newsworthy!
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Evidence-based Answers to Questions About Decodable and Leveled Books with Dr. Devin Kearns

We ask Dr. Kearns to clarify misunderstandings about “pairing” decodables with leveled books. Is there evidence to suggest that leveled books offer richer narratives and vocabulary to enhance students’ language exposure?

Research Article:

“Text Types and Their Relation to Efficacy in Beginning Reading Interventions”

Alia Pugh, Devin M. Kearns, Elfrieda H. Hiebert

First published: 22 June 2023

https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/rrq.513

Devin Kearns Bio:

Devin is an associate professor of Special Education in the Department of Educational Psychology in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He is a research scientist for Haskins Laboratories and the Center for Behavioral Education & Research (CBER). Devin Kearns, Ph.D. is an education researcher who studies reading disabilities including dyslexia. He designs and tests reading interventions and works with teachers and schools to implement them.

https://www.devinkearns.org/

“How to Pair Decodable Texts with Leveled Books”

Michele Dufresne

(Sponsored blog content)

https://readingrecovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Pairing-Decodable-text-blog.pdf

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Teachers Need Support to Teach Reading in Grades 3-8: RAND RESEARCH REPORT

What’s Missing from Teachers’ Toolkits to Support Student Reading in Grades 3-8?

Findings from the RAND American Teacher Panel

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA3300/RRA3358-1/RAND_RRA3358-1.pdf

Anna Shapiro is an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation with a focus on early childhood education and special education. Her research interests include strengthening early care and education systems, increasing access to high-quality public early learning opportunities, improving the educational experiences of children receiving special education services and children with developmental differences, and evaluations of programs and policies impacting children in PK-20.

Rebecca Sutherland

Associate Director of Research at AERDF

Rebecca Sutherland is an experienced qualitative and quantitative researcher who’s built a career working in public education at both the state (Massachusetts) and local district (Denver Public Schools) levels, along with some stints at national ed non-profits that partner directly with districts and schools. As Director of Assessment at Reading Partners from 2014-2017 Rebecca led the measurement of student learning needs and growth.

https://aerdf.org/team/rebecca-sutherland/

Here are the two assessments that are validated for use with older readers through high school:

ROAR (Rapid Online Assessment of Reading): modular administration, free to schools and districts

Capti Assess: explicitly designed to test reading comprehension and foundational skills of students in grades 3-12

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Adolescent Literacy Solutions with Tricia Millar Part 2

Article:

“Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

Some high schools and states are experimenting with ways to integrate literacy instruction across all classes”

Julian Roberts-Grmela

August 14, 2024

https://hechingerreport.org/many-kids-cant-read-even-in-high-school-is-the-solution-teaching-reading-in-every-class/

Is it a high school teacher’s responsibility to teach reading skills and strategies?

Tricia Millar Bio

https://thatreadingthing.com/tricia-millar-reading-spelling/

Website:

https://thatreadingthing.com/

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Does the Science of Reading Include Middle and High School?

With James and Dianne Murphy

Article:

“Does the science of reading include middle school?” –

Tim Shanahan

January 6, 2024

https://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/does-the-science-of-reading-include-middle-school

Teacher Question:

What does the science prioritize for middle level ELA instruction? Is there a point when teaching into a phonics gap for students does not have a payoff? With limited time in a middle school classroom, I am thinking about what needs to be prioritized.

Adolescent Literacy Specialists Dianne and James Murphy

Dianne Murphy is a specialist reading intervention designer and teacher trainer working in secondary schools. She is the author of Thinking Reading, a high-impact program specifically designed to meet the needs of adolescent struggling readers. She is co-author of Thinking Reading: What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Reading.

James Murphy has worked in secondary schools in New Zealand and the UK as an English teacher, Head of English and senior leader. He is Director of School Partnerships at Thinking Reading, focused on assisting schools with implementation of effective literacy strategies. He is co-author of Thinking Reading: What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Reading, and the editor of the researched Guide to Literacy.

Website: https://www.thinkingreading.com/

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Teachers Who Speak Up are Written Up: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

This Breaking News episode is a result of our last episode on Badass Moms and their Teens! YouTube Link is here:

https://youtu.be/SR0lO0osKqY?si=qzR-EmT1OT-0FUuT

Article:

Letter to the Editor in the Muddy River News

Blaming Parents, Teachers, Students, or Pandemic Isn’t Solution to Low Reading Scores in Quincy

https://muddyrivernews.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-blaming-parents-teachers-students-or-pandemic-isnt-solution-to-low-reading-scores-in-quincy/20240715060000/

Special Guests **

Dawn De Lorenzo Bio:

I am dual-certified general and special education teacher with 24 years experience. I have taught students from PreK through Grade 8. The majority of the students that I have served throughout my career had language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia. I am a CERI Certified Structured Language Teacher. I have my MA in Curriculum and Instruction and my Ed.S. in Education Leadership, Policy and Management.

Last year, I was a Teacher Leader Policy Fellow with JerseyCAN and worked to champion several policies to strengthen literacy in New Jersey. JerseyCAN awarded me with an Excellence in Advocacy Award for my work. I was second place in Nessy's 2024 Teacher of the Year Dyslexia Awareness Award.

This year I started my own tutoring business, Lighthouse Literacy Solutions, where I can serve students and their families' needs without all of the red tape that entangles educators in public schools today.

Website:

https://lighthouseliteracy.tutorbird.com/

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Email: lightjouselitnj@gmail.com

X: https://x.com/DeLorenzoEdS

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawndelorenzo/

Sherri Lucas-Hall Bio

Sherri worked in a Georgia school district for 14 years, 4 years as an after-school teacher/ paraprofessional/substitute and 10 years as a classroom teacher for grades K/1. Sherri began studying the science of reading after discovering and listening to Emily Hanford’s APM podcast entitled Hard Words in 2018.She started a small tutoring business, Designed to Teach Tutoring Services, in September 2019.

Sherri earned a Bachelor of Science in Management from Northern Illinois University and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Mercer University. She obtained an OG Classroom Educator Level Certification and completed LETRS training in January 2022, currently delivering those trainings as a PLF. Sherri lives in Georgia with 2 of her

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Badass Moms and Their Teens: Adolescent Literacy Kickoff!

Real Moms

Real Teens

Real Issues

Straight Talk

No BS!

Our special guests turned lemons into lemonade!

Article:

Not-So-Great Expectations:

Students are Reading Fewer Books in English Class

Apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/books-reading-high-school-english-class-c8d9f39773268a6e8c79cb0b3c78d3c1

Stacey Klein and Max

Stacey Klein is a fierce parent advocate who took on Minnesota’s most affluent school district to fight for her son’s right to learn to read. Her son completed 3rd-grade with a Kindergarten reading level. Without her advocacy and intervention, he was on a trajectory to finish 12th-grade reading at a 4th-grade level. Stacey's family navigated years of delays, denials, a due process hearing, and federal lawsuits in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, ultimately costing them $300,000 in educational and legal fees. Despite the district’s appeals, her son received all of his court-ordered services, worked hard, is now reading at grade level, and is on track to graduate with his peers. Today, Stacey relentlessly advocates for students with learning disabilities like dyslexia, committed to ensuring no family has tofight the same battle her family did to guarantee their child learns to read in school.

Sheri Vail and Keera

Sheri’s Facebook page, Sheri Vail Coaching

Email: sherivailcoaching@gmail.com

Phone # 631-503-1544

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Dinorah DellaCamera and Chris

Dr.Dinorah DellaCamera is veterinarian who is passionate about reading and life long learning. On Facebook, she is the infamous “Carrie Dee” and is the admin for a handful of dyslexia groups. Dinorah is a member of the NYS Dyslexia Task

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