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General, Structured Literacy & Orton-Gillingham, Teachers · March 7, 2019 · Link to original article

We Have a National Reading Crisis

“Unfinished learning around literacy” is a reason the PC READS provides Professional Development Grants to educators in the Park City area. Thank you to all the educators who continue to learn! And, thank you to The Hall Family Fund for your support of this important program!

EXCERPT: Educators urgently need a national movement for professional learning about reading. We should declare a No Shame Zone for this work—to make it safe for all educators to say, “I have unfinished learning around literacy.”

General, Parents, Teachers, Testing & Evaluations · February 28, 2019 · Link to original article

Identifying students with dyslexia in middle, high school

It’s so important to recognize the older students who are silently struggling. Looking forward to the rest of this five-part series on supporting middle-schoolers, high-schoolers and adults with dyslexia. We also are grateful for the time that the author, Donell Pons, has given to PC READS!

EXCERPT: There is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” speller. By accepting the “good” or “bad” speller idea, it absolves us from doing anything to improve the outcome. Think about how much damage has been done in the field of teaching mathematics by falling back on the erroneous idea that some people are simply “good” or “bad” at math. Simply put, people struggle with math or spelling for the same reasons. Many educators have not been given the training and resources to accommodate students with dyslexia, and especially older students with dyslexia who are out of the initial learning curve of reading.

Assistive Technology, General, Parents · November 16, 2018 · Link to original article

The Benefits of Ear-Reading

If you are in the Park City School District and have a child that would benefit from ear-reading, please speak to the school. This is the second year of a district-wide subscription to Learning Ally and, having advocated for the program, PC READS wants to ensure that it’s successful! A special thanks to the Park City Education Foundation for funding the original Learning Ally school grant at Parley’s Park several years ago.

EXCERPT: The effective use of assistive technology coupled with an explicit structured literacy curriculum can be life-changing for students with learning differences. Try one of these tools to see if your students will come out of their shell. Give them the freedom to choose what topics they want to learn about and watch the transformation in their self-belief that they can be successful readers and achievers.

General, National News, Research & Science, Structured Literacy & Orton-Gillingham, Teachers · October 26, 2018 · Link to original article

Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?

This article is based upon author Emily Hanford’s audio documentary for APM Reports, “Hard Words: Why Aren’t Kids Being Taught to Read?”

Excerpt: “There is no excuse for this. Colleges of education have to start requiring that their faculties teach the science of reading. Children’s futures depend on it.”

Thank you to our PCSD K-3 teachers who are putting the science of reading back into the classrooms through Wilson Fundations!

General · October 24, 2018 · Link to original article

Early identification of dyslexia can make a significant difference in a child’s reading development, confidence, and overall academic success. What signs are indicators of dyslexia? What are the social and emotional impacts? What can be done to help a child with dyslexia? This article from the Child Mind Institute provides answers to these and other important questions for parents of young children who are struggling with reading. (Shared on Facebook by Park City Education Foundation)

https://parkcityreads.org/2206-2/

General, National News, Parents, Research & Science, Structured Literacy & Orton-Gillingham, Teachers · September 10, 2018 · Link to original article

Hard Words: Why aren’t kids being taught to read?

What can you do over the UEA break? PLEASE take the time to read or listen to this article & the follow-up we will post, too. PC READS advocated for changes to our PCSD elementary reading curriculum for several years based upon the science of reading & is proud to be a partner on the initiative that brought Wilson Fundations to our classrooms! And, our Professional Development Grants are supporting educators as they learn more about the science of reading.

A FEW EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLE:

By some estimates, one-third of America’s struggling readers are from college-educated families.

But without explicit and systematic phonics instruction, many children won’t ever learn to read very well.

“There are thousands of studies,” said Louisa Moats, an education consultant and researcher who has been teaching and studying reading since the 1970s. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.”

There is no debate at this point among scientists that reading is a skill that needs to be explicitly taught by showing children the ways that sounds and letters correspond. “It’s so accepted in the scientific world that if you just write another paper about these fundamental facts and submit it to a journal they won’t accept it because it’s considered settled science,” Moats said.

You can find schools and school districts across the United States that are trying to change reading instruction the way Bethlehem has, but according to Moats, ill-informed, ineffective reading instruction is the norm. “The gap between science-based ideas and practices and those most often used in our classrooms remains very wide and persistent,” she wrote in a recent article.

General, National News, Research & Science, Structured Literacy & Orton-Gillingham · January 2, 2019 · Link to original article

Why Millions Of Kids Can’t Read And What Better Teaching Can Do About It

Emily Hanford, Senior Correspondent for APM Reports, highlights how the science of reading is being taught to teachers in Bethlehem, PA.

“The Bethlehem district has invested approximately $3 million since 2015 on training, materials and support to help its early elementary teachers and principals learn the science of how reading works and how children should be taught.”

General, National News · December 6, 2017 · Link to original article

When Dyslexic Students Are Denied In School

If you missed this NPR report on the 1A Show earlier this week, you can listen to it here. This is a follow-up to the recent investigation by American Public Media (APM) revealing that “across the country, public schools are denying children proper treatment and often failing to identify them with dyslexia in the first place.”

“The APM findings also show that the way schools handle recognizing and educating students with dyslexia could have implications for how all children are taught to read. We look at how one special needs population affects early childhood education and literacy rates across the board.”

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