31 Days of Literacy Learning
SHARING IMPORTANT WORDS AND IDEAS ON LITERACY, RESEARCH, DYSLEXIA AND EDUCATION
"Teaching Reading is Rocket Science."
DR. LOUISA MOATS
#DAY1
#LDAWARENESSMONTH
#31DAYSOFLITERACYLEARNING
"We do not want students surrendering their life chances before they get to know their life choices. Being able to read and write well truly makes a difference."
"All of our students have the right to learn how to read; consequently, we have a responsibility to teach each of them."
#DAY3 #AIMAT15
#LDAWARENESSMONTH
"During these unprecedented times, health literacy is critical to reading and understanding information about COVID-19. Supporting adult literacy can create better health outcomes for both. Adult learners and their families."
BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY
"In my years of reporting on reading, I haven’t met a teacher who didn’t want her/his students to be good readers. But I’ve met a lot who didn’t know what cognitive scientists have figured out about how reading comprehension works."
"We are all literacy teachers for our boys and girls."
First, foremost, and forever the foundation of fluency is accuracy."
"Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true."
JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG
“Deep
reading is always about *connection*: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.”
DR. MARYANNE WOLF
"Many mysteries surround dyslexia, but there are no mysteries about what constitutes effective instruction for those at risk for reading failure. We now know what it takes to “outwit nature.”
DR. GORDON F. SHERMAN
"Dyslexia is only a gift if you are not born poor."
"If we think about listening, speaking, reading, and writing as though they are not particularly associated with each other, we really miss the boat in terms of where we should be focusing"
"Babies
are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different."
DR. STEVEN PINKER
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
"When
teachers are better prepared, the impact of reading difficulties, including dyslexia, will be lessened, and many more students will receive the instruction and support that they require to succeed academically."
INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION
"Early literacy is the key skill that we need to make sure all children have if we expect them to grow up to be selfsustaining adults and make our communities thrive.”
"Intervention...even in high school can prevent a lifetime of hardships born out of struggling to read and write. Waiting is not the answer, but let us not forget that it is never too late to prevent a lifetime of hardship. One person’s costly intervention is another person’s economic prevention when considering the cost of the alternative."
"Research is the only defensible foundation for educational practice."
"...Teachers cannot rely on their implicit skill/ability alone to teach reading, explicit teaching requires explicit understanding."
DR. MALT JOSHI
"Imagine a world where students received help at the first sign of struggle; where no students fall so far behind they can't catch up before someone gives a name to those difficulties...Imagine what our students would achieve when struggles with reading, writing, math and attention are stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks."
LINDSAY E. JONES
“Literacy is both a right and a gift. It is a right to which no individual should be denied, and it is a gift for a lifetime of joy and learning.”
BARBARA A. WILSON, M.ED
"It's key for reading researchers to experience what goes on in the classroom directly — increasing opportunities for bidirectional learning will improve the science."
#DAY22 #AIMAT15
"The Ladder of Reading - This is not a pendulum swing. Every child has the right to learn, be challenged, and make continual progress."
"English learners bring with them prior knowledge, experiences, and strengths related to language and learning that educators must find ways to identify and build upon.”
DR. ELSA CÁRDENAS-HAGAN
"Keep in mind that all children who struggle with learning to read need evidence-based interventions regardless of the cause of their struggle, their school's or parents resources, their skin color and whether they have a dyslexia diagnosis or not. Our task is to make that happen."
“The gulf between science and education has been harmful. A look at the science reveals that the methods commonly used to teach children are inconsistent with basic facts about human cognition and development and so make reading more difficult than it should be. They inadvertently place many children at risk for reading failure.”
DR. MARK SEIDENBERG
“If we can figure out how to help more kids with dyslexia learn to read, that knowledge will provide the backbone for getting it right for all kids in all schools. And if we can’t succeed with this particular group of kids, it’s unlikely we will succeed with all the others.”
“Reading is a Human Right. All children have the right to evidence-based learning. All educators have the right to be armed with evidence-based knowledge & skills.”
"IDA-accredited university trained educators are among the few preservice teachers who observe and apply structured literacy before they enter their own classrooms. To improve literacy outcomes for all, systemic change is needed with collaboration between schools, universities and parents."
"In my view, the key to success in research to practice enterprises lies in the fostering of genuine, respectful and bidirectional learning opportunities that bring educators and experimentalists together to solve problems they share a passion for."
DR. KEN PUGH
"Skilled
reading
requires that the
processes involved in word recognition become so well practiced that
they
can proceed extremely quickly and almost effortlessly freeing up the reader's cognitive resources for comprehension processes." #DAY31
DR. HOLLIS SCARBOROUGH
