In an ideal world, we would have no need for upper grade teachers to hear about literacy foundations, alongside the key pillars for upper grade literacy.
But we know we have many children who made it past third grade without learning foundational skills.
Kudos to @TNedu for what continues to be the most comprehensive literacy investment in the country:
– High-quality curriculum statewide
– Teacher training (now K-12!)
– Decodable readers for families & parent literacy nights
– Public TV programs (I ❤️ Starting With Sounds!)
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The Early Intervention program is serving 30% more infants and toddlers than it served in 2019 – a worrisome sign of COVID era impacts on children’s development.
“In the two-plus years since the district adopted structured literacy, some students’ scores on district reading assessments, given three times a year, are rising more quickly.”
@dahliabazzaz on the shift to structured literacy in WA schools. 👏
The only troubling thing is this dichotomy versus whole language. @dahliabazzaz
Schools in WA state that don’t teach structured literacy are teaching Balanced Literacy; none would say they teach whole language. Only journalists describe it this way.
Hey @C_Sommerfeldt, why does your coverage characterize this as an anti-mask protest when actually it seems like more of an anti-vaxxine mandate protest?
I wasn’t at the protest, nor do I know anyone who was. (Which is telling, because I know a lot of leaders in the movement to restore normalcy for children).
But this video suggests that this was more about vaccine mandates than toddler masking, @C_Sommerfeldt. See: