TRT Podcast#34: Introducing our science of reading podcast series
I’ve been pouring over the science of reading research, and I’m making shifts in how I approach teaching reading. You’re invited to join me on this exciting journey!
Listen to the episode here
Full episode transcript
Link to original Facebook Live presentation
Check out the full science of reading bootcamp
- Introduction to the series
- Episode 1: What are the reading wars?
- Episode 2: My reaction to the article that reignited the reading wars
- Episode 3: How the brain learns to read
- Episode 4: What the science of reading is based on
- Episode 5: What’s wrong with three-cueing?
- Episode 6: Should you use leveled or decodable books?
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Tracey James
Hi Anna
I teach 5 yr olds and have always used a phonics, phonemic awareness, phonology and orthographic mapping approach. I use the beanie babes strategies to help put these skills into practice ie. getting lios ready to make the sound associated with the letter they are reading, stretching and blending the sounds or chunks in a word, flipping the first sound they try if it isn’t correct to another sound they know is made using that graph or diagraph etc. Now im hearing these beanie babe strategies are not SoR aligned. How is this the case?
Anna Geiger
The problem is that some of the beanie baby strategies are bad: Eagle Eye (look at the picture) and Skippy the Frog (skip the word) because they don’t require looking at (and thus, having a chance to orthographically map) the word. In my opinion, the ones you’re using and the way you’re using them is just fine. 🙂