Response to Misreading the Science of Reading

@ehanford Maybe very little new research in reading research has come out since 80s that has fundementally shifted our understanding. Marketing documents from Amplify are not research. When you dig into citations, recycled, often just NRP. #ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/2gKDNO) ^{Also on Twitter}

Look how you frame the narraritive "teachers don't know this science" "

https://twitter.com/ehanford/status/1197721612759556098

" "teacher prep is bad"

https://twitter.com/ehanford/status/1197721653289111554

this is an agenda and not research and also not based in reality. Frankly I find it insulting #ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/WkE1H) ^{Also on Twitter}

@ehanford Folks love quantitative theoretical models. Looking at variance explained by different variables helps us understand reading. But to suggest Gough & Tunmer's model is superior leaves many question. So many better models with < error #ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/A4S6D) ^Twitter

also think concept of "fight" & "wars" itself toxic. Reflects and reinforces a long history of exclusion, mysoginy, and racism in literacy research. Plus real war is real bad. Let's not equate people yelling at the Goodmans during Town Hall as war… quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/11/22/als… ^Twitter

Thx for Kilpatrick recommendation, I respect his work. I think you should also read folks like @davidekirkland and "Search Past Silence, you frame this as a "fight" between phonics and phonology...it isnt It's about people, other narratives #ncte18 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/tQnUA) ^Twitter

Big issue is NRP, on which "science of reading" has as 1 leg of 2 leg stool (other brain scan research) specifically and explicitly omitted research we know also imporves reading. Motivation, writing, and much more. #ncte19 quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/11/22/thx… (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/TocRz) ^Twitter

And most teachers who won't fold under political pressure of "science of reading" aren't against explicit phonics instruction. Heck #CCSS has a foundational skills sections and many teacher prep programs take Foundations of Reading #ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1M06Qx) ^{Also on Twitter}

implore anyone interested to go track down ttechnical reports of the NRP and read the foot notes. Decide for yourself if the inclusion and exclusion criteria need revisiting. But most importantly STOP treating it like an efficacy study #ncte19 Bad… quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/11/22/imp… ^{Also on Twitter}

The NRP is not some random design study that put explicit phonics instruction up against miscue analysis, or compared different diagnostic assessments of fake word recognition up against MSV...franky I care for neither. but had nothign to do with NRP… quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/11/22/the… ^{Also on Twitter}

I teach running records, listening to kids read great way to identify phonics then spelling help (though I am faster at recongizing phonics level by reading their writing)...the MSV stuff...might as well throw darts at wall. I skip it. #ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1brXvQ) ^{Also on Twitter}

but I hold that true for most diagnostic assessments, by time they get to classroom level ecological factors have stripped almost all validity and reliability. Like when DRA2 scores work their way in SLOs and fall scoring stricter than spring #ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/sikto) ^{Also on Twitter>}

@ehanford In the end I don't think it will matter. Foundational skills don't take much time. 7 minutes a day for phonological awareness and some explicit phonics intruction. One place technology will be better at doing than humans IMO. #ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/nxLee) ^{Also on Twitter}

@ehanford @karenvaites @LaurenTTutor718 I will leave with this. If SVR is such simple model how is it dialogical reading is one of the most replicable studies in #ece #literacies? All that talk about pictures and connections....#ncte19 (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/XoF0K) ^{Also on Twitter}

@ehanford @karenvaites @LaurenTTutor718 If variable like motivation and family do not matter. Why is ist we find setting up text messaging in early childhood classrooms may improve literacy rates? Could it be two people can be right at the same through… quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/11/22/eha… ^{Also on Twitter}

Are you saying that you weren't intending to criticize @ehanford when you speak of an 'agenda' and say 'look at how you frame the narrative'?

@SaraJPeden ooooh now I get it...I crossed streams, was discussing same topic in two different threads...yeah the advocacy is nonsense and it is being framed as a blame game of teachers and teacher prep...also conflates miscue analysis

29 Nov 2019