Can anyone understand why Tim Shanahan doesn't want to change to
“language structure” and “meaning in context”? Was he one of the
original authors of National Reading Panel?
Excerpt for Ed Weekly...
Timothy Shanahan, a professor of urban education at the University of
Illinois at Chicago, said he favors the boost in funding for grades
4-12 and for school literacy programs in general. “It should mean that
more schools could participate, which is a good thing,” he said.
But he said the draft bill reflects some changes in wording from
Reading First legislation that aren’t an improvement, because the new
wording won’t be well understood by most teachers. The new wording
requires K-3 programs to provide “strategic and explicit instruction
using phonological awareness, phonic decoding, vocabulary, language
structure, and meaning in context.” Mr. Shanahan pointed out that
“language structure” and “meaning in context” replace the words
“reading fluency” and “reading comprehension” in Reading First.
One of the Senate aides said the replacements were made to reflect the
latest terminology that educators are using.
But Mr. Shanahan said the terminology in Reading First would be more
familiar to and better understood by teachers.
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Just Finished Readacide and The Reading Zone What
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Joy
I would love for the discussion to begin again...I could use some help
moderating though. I am teaching summer school and am taking classes
this
summer so I have a pretty full plate. I do think Ellins' book is
something
everyone should read and discussion only enriches its messages.
Jennifer
In a message dated 6/28/2009 10:15:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jwidm...@rocketmail.com writes:
You can also read the archives from our two rounds discussing it, as
Jennifer suggested. Maybe there's enough interest to go at it again?
It is
really a valuable book with great implications for the classroom, to
me even
more than Mosaic of Thought.
Joy/NC/4
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