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Thread by @plthomasEdD: "Here's a thread for anyone genuinely interested in the New (But Still Misguided) Phonics Assault on Reading driven bcacy 1/x a) Students with dyslexia who are not properly identified and/or properly served is INEXCUSABLE. Sch […]" threadreaderapp.com/thread/1126452…
Here is an UPDATE thread based on the outstanding work by @PatriciaDunn1 Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies (1995) wac.colostate.edu/books/practice… 1/x
@PatriciaDunn1 While @profpatch focuses on LD and composition, she directly confronts the special needs/literacy tension currently occurring re: dyslexia/reading I address here: Parent Advocacy and the New (But Still Misguided) Phonics Assault on Reading radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/par… 2/x
@PatriciaDunn1 @profpatch And Dunn's work is an outstanding companion to my concerns about historical patterns concerning the Reading Wars: What Shall We Do About Reading Today?: Looking Back to See Now More Clearly radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/wha… 3/x
@PatriciaDunn1 @profpatch Dunn's excellent volume, in fact, provides a detailed unpacking of why false dichotomies and entrenched camps driven by zeal fail students 4/x 
@PatriciaDunn1 @profpatch Ultimately, tensions and over-reach among advocates can be addressed IF we are more careful about definitions (see Dunn) and IF we are more sincere about individual student needs v. "all students must" - especially as related to literacy growth 5/x
@PatriciaDunn1 @profpatch When parents, administrators, politicians, and advocates refuse to acknowledge research while claiming "the science of X," there is no way to make things right for anyone, especially individual students 6/x
@PatriciaDunn1 @profpatch As Dunn details, a student with special needs did not flourish from either WL or O-G, but a unique combination of practices that could only be DISCOVERED, not prescribed 7/x
@PatriciaDunn1 @profpatch If nothing else, Dunn's work against the current dyslexia/reading movement exposes the utter failure of camp-mentality in the pursuit of teaching children 8/8 -fin-
