Ep.96-Does the Science of Reading Include Middle and High School? With James and Dianne Murphy

Does the Science of Reading Include Middle and High School?
With James and Dianne Murphy
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Does the Science of Reading Include Middle and High School?
With James and Dianne Murphy
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“Does the science of reading include middle school?” -
Tim Shanahan
January 6, 2024
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Teacher Question:
What does the science prioritize for middle level ELA instruction? Is there a point when teaching into a phonics gap for students does not have a payoff? With limited time in a middle school classroom, I am thinking about what needs to be prioritized.
Adolescent Literacy Specialists Dianne and James Murphy
Dianne Murphy is a specialist reading intervention designer and teacher trainer working in secondary schools. She is the author of Thinking Reading, a high-impact program specifically designed to meet the needs of adolescent struggling readers. She is co-author of Thinking Reading: What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Reading.
James Murphy has worked in secondary schools in New Zealand and the UK as an English teacher, Head of English and senior leader. He is Director of School Partnerships at Thinking Reading, focused on assisting schools with implementation of effective literacy strategies. He is co-author of Thinking Reading: What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Reading, and the editor of the researched Guide to Literacy.
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[@esc91]

Brilliant conversation - every teacher should listen.

[@Shannon-ep9rj]

This has to be my favorite episode I learned so much ! Thank you !

[@dawndelz]

Loved this episode ladies! Fabulous guests 👏

[@theliteracyview]

Thanks so much! We really appreciate your support!❤️

[@dawndelz]

The program is a tool! 🙌

[@thezetzers9116]

Precision Teaching needs to be more widely understood and used. My son had a very effective experience with it, even though I had reservations about the timing element and anxiety. Sadly, the only place that offers it here is not recognized by my state for interventions.

[@dawndelz]

What does he mean by precision teaching? I know some terminology is different than the US.

[@dawndelz]

LOL you just answered the question Faith I just had to wait!

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

There is nothing mysterious about teaching reading. It was done in classrooms since the very creation of universal schooling before any of us - or our parents - were born. Putting aside disabilities, children in the normal range of intelligence can pick up reading to a reasonable level in a classroom of 30 students if the teacher has control of the room and if the students don't bring in anti-social behavior. I don't need a study to know this, because both my parents and I are the product of that truth. There may be an even better way than we experienced, but what has been widely used over decades now is obviously worse. Two factors have been doing the greatest harm to reading education in recent decades - educational 'reform' (yes, those are scare quotes) and the general breakdown of social order in society. Teachers can't produce competent readers if they're being attacked in the classroom with impunity by their students, and education school reform-for-reform-sake ideology have combined to put students years behind in reading ability, and have produced a generation of college students who don't read books - ever. Thank you for letting me rant.