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Sold a Story APM Reports
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Millions of kids can't read well. Scientists have known for decades how children learn to read but many schools are ignoring the research. They buy teacher training and books that are rooted in a disproven idea. Emily Hanford investigates four authors and a publishing company that have made millions selling this idea.
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1: The Problem
Corinne Adams watches her son's lessons during Zoom school and discovers a dismaying truth: He can't read. Little Charlie isn't the only one. Sixty-five percent of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient readers. Kids need to learn specific skills to become good readers, and in many schools, those skills are not being taught.
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2: The Idea
Sixty years ago, Marie Clay developed a way to teach reading she said would help kids who were falling behind. They’d catch up and never need help again. Today, her program remains popular and her theory about how people read is at the root of a lot of reading instruction in schools. But Marie Clay was wrong.
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3: The Battle
President George W. Bush made improving reading instruction a priority. He got Congress to provide money to schools that used reading programs supported by scientific research. But backers of Marie Clay’s cueing idea saw Bush’s Reading First initiative as a threat.
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4: The Superstar
Teachers sing songs about Teachers College Columbia professor Lucy Calkins. She’s one of the most influential people in American elementary education today. Her admirers call her books bibles. Why didn't she know that scientific research contradicted reading strategies she promoted?
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5: The Company
Teachers call books published by Heinemann their "bibles." The company's products are in schools all over the country. Some of the products used to teach reading are rooted in a debunked idea about how children learn to read. But they've made the company and some of its authors millions.
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6: The Reckoning
Lucy Calkins says she has learned from the science of reading. She's revised her materials. Fountas and Pinnell have not revised theirs. Their publisher, Heinemann, is still selling some products to teach reading that contain debunked practices. Parents, teachers and lawmakers want answers.
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Klantrecensies
That explains it! Two countries two experiences
As a stay at home mom, raising my kids is my biggest priority and of all my goals for them, cultivating a love of reading is the most important. We have two dual citizen bilingual daughters: the eldest went to kindergarten in the USA and the youngest started school in the Netherlands. With my first one, learning to read was painful. It involved a lot of my time and a hefty amount of bribery. Thankfully we managed. But she really took off once we came back to the Netherlands and put her in tutoring to get her up to speed reading in Dutch. The youngest painlessly learned to read Dutch first and then taught herself to read in English. I did nothing more than provide a ton of English books and continue our nightly ritual of reading aloud in both languages. Her spelling is also better in both languages than the eldest, to this day. I always wondered if it had something to do with the structure of the languages or the extra difficulty of processing two languages. It’s probably that too, but omg a lightbulb went off when I listened to this. All those books with “sight words” I read with my eldest? What rubbish! Or at least peripheral to actually learning to sound words out! I listened to this whole podcast in two days. Amazing reporting. About to share with all the teachers I know!