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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Deanna
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!
Anna Geiger
Thank you so much for your feedback, Deanna! I agree!
Amy Algire DeWitt
BL refers to Becoming Literate, a text written by Marie Clay.
Anna Geiger
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!