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The One About-Speech to Print Flaws with Lyn Stone
Quotes:
“I’m not saying you’re in a cult, but if you call yourself a ‘Brand Name’ practitioner/school/trainer, there’s a bit of a problem. And that problem occurs when your method is touted as the method to end all methods. That problem occurs when the only tool in your toolbox is fairly blunt, and when you’re expressly forbidden to use ‘outside’ tools even though you know you should.”
“They identify so closely with the brand, that they become blind to its flaws and instead turn in on themselves when the flaws become apparent.”
Blogs:
Culty as Charged: Why the Speech to Print Movement Needs Brakes
https://lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as...

Culty as Charged Part 2: Some solutions
https://lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as...
Parts 3 to 6 can be found in follow-up blogs
https://lifelongliteracy.com/blog/
Lyn Stone Bio:
Lyn is an educational linguist, author, and CEO of Lifelong Literacy: an education coaching and
training organization. Her goal is to help educators awaken linguistic curiosity in their students using
creative, engaging tools and strategies that are based upon scientific consensus as to what
constitutes best practice. Lyn creates research-informed professional development seminars, both
online and face to face, for teachers and other education professionals. She directs a team of
specialist practitioners to deliver high quality literacy intervention at Tiers 2 and 3, and a team of
school coaches to deliver the best possible Tier 1 literacy instruction.
Episode with Dr. Jan Wasowicz on the Speech to Print approach and the research

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The One About…
Conflating Leveled Books with Predictable Texts with Tiffany Peltier and Wiley Blevins
On X (Twitter), a storm of tweets began when Tiffany posted this, “Leveled readers are great for
building fluency. However, a SUBSET of leveled texts, known as PREDICTABLE texts ARE NOT great for building decoding skills and SHOULD NOT be used in kindergarten for teaching phonics.” Wiley responded, “We need to do a virtual roundtable discussion about this. There is so much research misinterpretation and misunderstanding happening now. It’s an important topic needing clarification.”
So here we are!!
Wiley Blevins Bio: http://www.wileyblevins.com/all_about_wiley/
Wiley’s New Book! “Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact:
How to Scaffold Whole-Group Instruction So All Students Can Access Grade-Level Content”
https://us.corwin.com/books/differentiating-phonics-283562

Tiffany Peltier Bio:
Tiffany Peltier is a Research Scientist in the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA. She
earned her PhD in Learning Science at the University of Oklahoma and her Masters in Reading
and Bachelors in Early Childhood Education from Texas A&M University.

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The One About…
Strengthening Implementation of SoR with Dr. Maureen Ruby
“Only when state leaders implement a literacy strategy that prioritizes teacher effectiveness
will states achieve a teacher workforce that can strengthen student literacy year after year. This
report outlines five policy actions states can take to ensure a well-prepared teacher workforce
that can implement and sustain the science of reading in classrooms across the country.”
NCTQ:
“Five Policy Actions to Strengthen Implementation of the Science of Reading” January 2024
Article:
https://www.nctq.org/publications/State-of-the-States-2024-Five-Policy-Actions-to-Strengthen-
Implementation-of-the-Science-of-Reading
Summary:
https://www.nctq.org/dmsView/Executive_Summary_SOTS_2024_Reading
Dr. Maureen Ruby’s Bio:
https://www.sacredheart.edu/phonebook/maureen-ruby.php
Book Recommendations:
https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Modern-Learning-Vision-Driven-
Empowering/dp/1947604449/ref=pd_sbs_d_sccl_2_1/139-2428568-
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https://www.amazon.com/Upgrade-Your-Teaching-Understanding-
Neuroscience/dp/1416627340/ref=sr_1_1?crid=22RXRIH648C1M&keywords=understanding+b
y+design+meets+neuroscience&qid=1707361945&s=books&sprefix=Understanding+by+design
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The One About…

Community-Based Screening Tools with Kate Mayer

Kate Mayer is a literacy advocate and co-founder of Everyone Reads PA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure that every educator and parent in PA has the tools they need to help all students read to the best of their potential. 

Earlybird Education:

https://earlybirdeducation.com/

Parent Involvement vs. Parent Engagement: What’s the difference? 

Article:

Community-Based Early Language and Literacy Screenings 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42822-023-00153-2

“If Only I Would Have Known…” 

Books to Help Community Awareness and Parent Engagement 

ifonlybooks.com

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The One About…

Community-Based Screening Tools with Kate Mayer

Kate Mayer is a literacy advocate and co-founder of Everyone Reads PA, a nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure that every educator and parent in PA has the tools they need to help all students read to the best of their potential. 

Earlybird Education:

https://earlybirdeducation.com/

Parent Involvement vs. Parent Engagement: What’s the difference? 

Article:

Community-Based Early Language and Literacy Screenings 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42822-023-00153-2

“If Only I Would Have Known…” 

Books to Help Community Awareness and Parent Engagement 

ifonlybooks.com

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The One About…
What Should PA Instruction Look Like?
Tiffany Peltier, and Marianne Rice PhD
Quote:
“The case for using letters in PA instruction is stacking up higher & higher… New research out today: An upside-down U curve found for oral PA instruction (diminishing returns after less than
10hrs) but the OPPOSITE—increasingly MORE returns after 16 hrs—for PA w/LETTERS ��”
Tiffany Peltier, PhD
Tiffany Peltier bio:
Tiffany Peltier is a Research Scientist in the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA. She
earned her PhD in Learning Science at the University of Oklahoma and her Masters in Reading and Bachelors in Early Childhood Education from Texas A&M University.
Marianne Rice: Academic Researcher, Educator, and Reading Specialist at the Department of Educational
Psychology, Texas A&M University
Email: [email protected]
Article:
A Meta-Analysis on the Optimal Cumulative Dosage of Early Phonemic Awareness Instruction
Florina Erbeli, Marianne Rice, Ying Xu, Megan E. Bishop & J. Marc Goodrich
Published online: 25 Jan 2024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888438.2024.2309386
RIP to Advanced Phonemic Awareness by Tim Shanahan (Reading Rockets)
https://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-on-literacy/rip-advanced-phonemic-
awareness

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The One About…
What Should PA Instruction Look Like?
Tiffany Peltier,  and Marianne Rice Ph.D
Quote:
“The case for using letters in PA instruction is stacking up higher & higher… New research out today: An upside-down U curve found for oral PA instruction (diminishing returns after less than
10hrs) but the OPPOSITE—increasingly MORE returns after 16 hrs—for PA w/LETTERS ��”

Tiffany Peltier
Tiffany Peltier bio:
Tiffany Peltier is a Research Scientist in the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA. She earned her PhD in Learning Science at the University of Oklahoma and her Masters in Reading
and Bachelors in Early Childhood Education from Texas A&M University.
Marianne Rice:
Academic Researcher, Educator, and Reading Specialist at the Department of Educational
Psychology, Texas A&M University
Email: [email protected]
Article:
A Meta-Analysis on the Optimal Cumulative Dosage of Early Phonemic Awareness Instruction
Florina Erbeli, Marianne Rice, Ying Xu, Megan E. Bishop & J. Marc Goodrich
Published online: 25 Jan 2024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888438.2024.2309386
RIP to Advanced Phonemic Awareness by Tim Shanahan (Reading Rockets)
https://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-on-literacy/rip-advanced-phonemic-
awareness

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Dr. Rasinski’s bio
Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
Professor of Reading Education
Reading and Writing Center
Kent State University
401 White Hall
Kent, OH 44242
[email protected] ; 330-672-0649
website: www.timrasinski.com
Twitter: @timrasinski1

Timothy Rasinski is a professor of literacy education at Kent State University and director of its award-winning reading clinic. He also holds the Rebecca Tolle and Burton W.Gorman Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership. Tim has written over 250 articles and
has authored, co-authored or edited over 50 books or curriculum programs on reading education. He is author of the best-selling books on reading fluency The Fluent Reader and The Megabook of Fluency. Tim’s scholarly interests include reading fluency and word study, reading in the elementary and middle grades, and readers who struggle. His
research on reading has been cited by the National Reading Panel and has been published inn journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading
Psychology, and the Journal of Educational Research. Tim is the first author of the fluency chapter for the Handbook of Reading Research, Volume IV.
Tim served a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and was co-editor of The Reading Teacher, the world's most widely read journal of literacy education. He has also served as co-editor of the Journal of Literacy
Research. Rasinski is past-president of the College Reading Association and he has won
the A. B. Herr and Laureate Awards from the College Reading Association for his
scholarly contributions to literacy education. In 2010 Tim was elected to the International
Reading Hall of Fame and he is also the 2020 recipient of the William S. Gray Citation of
Merit from the International Literacy Association. In a 2021 study done at Stanford
University Tim was identified as being among the top 2% of scientists in the world.
Prior to coming to Kent State Tim taught literacy education at the University of Georgia.
He taught for several years as an elementary and middle school classroom and reading intervention teacher in Omaha, Nebraska. Tim is a veteran of the United States armed forces.

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A Speech to Print Approach with Dr. Jan Wasowicz

A blog by Lyn Stone entitled, "Culty as Charged: Why the Speech to Print Movement Needs Brakes,” and the follow-up blog, “Culty as Charged Part 2: Some Solutions,” raised some eyebrows, but advocates of the approach seemed to shy away publicly from presenting a counter-argument.

Articles:

https://lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as-charged-why-the-speech-to-print-movement-needs-brakes/

https://lifelongliteracy.com/culty-as-charged-part-2-some-solutions/

In defense of Speech to Print Structured Literacy, we invited Dr. Jan Wasowicz to join us to discuss the evidence base for S2P and its benefits. Jan Wasowicz, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, has more than 40 years of experience as a language, literacy, and learning specialist. 

 
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Assemblymember Bobby Carroll: Literacy Advocacy and Dyslexia 

Article:

NYT 

By Grace Ashford 

January 3, 2024 

As Literacy Lags, Hochul Proposes Changing How Schools Teach Reading 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/nyregion/new-york-schools-reading-hochul.html

“This is a very big deal, because for a long time, people realized what was going on was not working. But nobody stood up and said it needs to change,” Ms. Hochul said…

Assembly District 44

Assemblymember Robert Carroll’s Bio:

https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Robert-C-Carroll/about/

Assemblymember Carroll is the leading literacy advocate in the legislature. His Dyslexia Task Force Act, which establishes an expert panel to create standards for universal screening for dyslexia, evidence-based literacy interventions and professional development for teachers, is the first major piece of dyslexia and literacy legislation ever passed by the legislature.

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