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My response to Jan Richardson & Michele Dufresne, Part 2

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TRT Podcast #110: My response to Jan Richardson & Michele Dufresne, Part 2

In this episode, I respond to Michele Dufresne’s defense of using leveled A and B texts in guided reading lessons.

Please note: Jan Richardson kindly sent a written response to this series, and I’ve responded to her points in this pdf.

Full episode transcript

This episode is in response to:

  • Getting the Facts Straight on Guided Reading, with Jan Richardson & Michele Dufresne

Quotes were shared from these books:

  • The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading, by Jan Richardson
  • The Next Step Forward in Word Study and Phonics, by Jan Richardson & Michele Dufresne

Research

  • The Simple View of Reading, by Wesley Hoover & Philip Gough
  • Orthographic Mapping in the Acquisition of Sight Word Reading, Spelling Memory, and Vocabulary Learning, by Linnea Ehri
  • Systematic Phonics Instruction Helps Children Learn to Read: Evidence from the National Reading Panel’s Meta-Analysis, by Linnea Ehri, Simon Nunes, Steven Stahl, & Dale Willows

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Filed Under: Podcast, Science of reading Tagged With: Pre-K, first grade, kindergarten

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4 Comments

  1. Deanna

    February 6, 2023 at 11:24 pm

    So good! Thank you! Constructivism/ whole language/ analytic phonics/ whole to part / look And say etc. It’s wrong. It’s based in fallacies not facts.

    Structured Literacy is here to stay!

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 10, 2023 at 5:56 pm

      Thank you so much for your feedback, Deanna! I agree!

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  2. Amy Algire DeWitt

    February 6, 2023 at 8:42 am

    BL refers to Becoming Literate, a text written by Marie Clay.

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 6, 2023 at 9:33 am

      Ah, thank you! I used to have that book when I was a balanced literacy teacher. I wish I’d saved it as a reference!

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