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Response to Fountas & Pinnell #9: Do teachers know best?

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TRT Podcast#65: Response to Fountas & Pinnell #9 – Do teachers know best?

Fountas and Pinnell tell us that no literacy program can take the place of a teacher’s expertise. And they’re right! But expertise comes from knowledge, and that knowledge is not innate. In this episode I’ll share online courses that will improve your understanding of the science of reading.

 

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Related resources

  • Fountas & Pinnell’s series: Just to Clarify
  • Emily Hanford’s response: Influential authors Fountas and Pinnell stand behind disproven reading theory
  • Mark Seidenberg’s response: Clarity about Fountas and Pinnell
  • Louisa Moats: Teaching Reading is Rocket Science
  • Deb Glaser’s The Reading Teacher’s Top Ten Tools (Update: Unfortunately, after being acquired by Tools 4 Reading, the price has almost doubled.)
  • The Big Dippers course
  • Keys to Beginning Reading from Joan Sedita
  • Online Reading Academy from CORE Learning
  • My course: Teaching Every Reader

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Filed Under: Podcast, Science of reading, Structured literacy Tagged With: first grade, second grade, kindergarten

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