Thread by @SteveChiger

Reading friends: an elementary school peer asked for some of my favorite articles around reading assessment, acceleration, and support. I'll share a few in this 🧵that were top of mind, but I'd love to hear your favorites, too!

I love No More Strategy of the Week from @KConradiSmith and peers. It's clear, persuasive, and lays out (what I think) is a pretty solid framework for reading support. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/…

Then I thought of @CattsHugh's "How to Promote Reading Comprehension" which felt to me a seismic contribution to the conversation. I'm still shaken by those stats he cited about the reliability of reading assessments. aft.org/ae/winter2021-…

I thought @MrDanielBuck gave a really nice overview of some of the major issues here (including text leveling) earlier this year in this report: fordhaminstitute.org/national/resea…

And of course, there's what I told them was the @ReadingShanahan collection, which includes more articles and posts than I could possibly cite quickly. (Good thing he has a book coming out!) But here are a few favorites:

On analyzing reading comprehension: shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/how-to-an…

On pre-remediation (or pre-mediation, b/c I like a portmanteau word): shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/ensuring-…

And text leveling, on which is voice has been consistent and direct for many years, e.g. here: shanahanonliteracy.com/upload/publica…

My peer was already pretty steeped in the work around knowledge -- they've read @natwexler's The Knowledge Gap -- but of course I'd strongly recommend her substack -- which is comprehensive and ever-growing.

And while I didn't recommend it to my peer, here's a piece I did with the brilliant folks at @innerdrive (apologies that 2 paragraphs appear to repeat). innerdrive.co.uk/blog/reading-s…

Still here? I love that you're that kind of reader! What would you add to this list? I'm secondary-focused, which means I've surely missed some great stuff!