[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: "PBS" dyslexia page gone

Sat May 4 19:11:48 BST 2019

A cogently stated insight, Yetta. You have *lived* the words, as has
Shirley and others. May your insightfulness continue.
Respectfully,
Donna Alvermann

On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:59 PM Yetta Goodman <ygoodman at u.arizona.edu> wrote:

> As I read through the emails about reading, I am taken with the notion
> that "teaching" is taken into consideration more than "learning".  I
> believe Shirley is referring to this as well.  As I have been reading the
> discussions and what teachers should know and do, I sense the belief that
> teaching causes learning to happen in a direct way.  I know some believe
> that systematic teaching of reading is still the way to proceed.  However,
> without knowledge of how and what children/learners learn, how can we
> assume how to teach.
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> I see little reference to the work of linguists and and others who
> discovered that young chidlren's written inventions revealed a learner's
> knowledge of the relationship between sounds and letters.  Miscues and the
> way in which young children self correct or keep reading also reveal
> children's awareness of the grammar of their language(s).  This knowledge
> came with children's explorations of the writing in addition their their
> reading.  There is much evidence of children's literacy learning at early
> ages represented in their reading and writing.  Their
> explorations/inventions are sometimes used to prove they are "special
> needs" children.  Teachers can gather such information in their own
> classrooms and when they do, they develop knowledge about learning.
> Teachers come to understand how children develop knowledge about written
> language as they transact with written language.  Written language is
> language, it is not a secondary system.
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> Yetta
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> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:46 AM Paratore, Jeanne <jparator at bu.edu> wrote:
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>> I’ve been working for the last 10 years with PBS Kids on curriculum
>> development. I wrote and asked my program officer there how we would be
>> most likely to have our concerns heard.  This is what she said:
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>> If this is something that is deeply troubling to the literacy community,
>> which it sounds like it is, my recommendation is for the head of the ILA to
>> send a note to Paula Kerger (PBS President/CEO)and to Sara Just, who is the
>> Executive Producer of the News Hour.
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>> Paula’s email is pakerger at pbs.org
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>> I do not know Sara Just’s email, but here’s a link to her profile on the
>> News Hour site.  A letter could be sent to her attention at the address for
>> the News Hour.
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>> https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/sara-just
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>>  Jeanne
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>> Jeanne R. Paratore, Ed.D.
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>> Professor Emerita
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>> Literacy Education
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>> Boston University Wheelock College of Education
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>> *From: *<reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> on behalf
>> of DAVID REINKING <reinkin at clemson.edu>
>> *Date: *Friday, May 3, 2019 at 9:35 AM
>> *To: *Hall of Fame <Reading-hall-of-fame at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>> *Subject: *[Reading-hall-of-fame] "PBS" dyslexia page gone
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>> The link I shared yesterday where I posted a comment about the dyslexia
>> segment on the NewsHour is no longer active.  Coincidence?  On the other
>> hand, after investigating further, I’m not sure that the site is really
>> sponsored by PBS, although it uses a logo that looks like PBS.
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>> The following link may be a better one to post a comment, because it
>> seems unequivocally connected to the PBS NewsHour and specifically to the
>> segment we have been discussing:
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>> https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-parents-of-dyslexic-children-are-teaching-schools-about-literacy
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>> David Reinking
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>> Adjunct Professor of Education
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>> University of Georgia
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>> Dept. of Language and Literacy Education
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