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The Reading Instruction Show

Dr. Andy Johnson

The Reading Instruction Show is a podcast about reading instruction (and other things) with a little bit of attitude. There is plenty here to inform and entertain all. And, by the way, I"m not trying to sell any books. I don"t have any curriculum or programs to market. I don"t accept speaking fees. And, I don"t ever want to be a consultant.

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11:38

It’s Easier to Blame Teachers than to Fix Problems

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/09/26

If you can blame students, teachers, and colleges of education, we won’t see the social problems that impact learning. It’s much easier to blame teachers than to fix the actual cause of social problems. However, there is one thing of which we can be certain: If Cengage Learning, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson Education, and Scholastic could sell products to fix one of these social problems, that problem would be the cause of the next educational crisis.

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11:34

The Ample Testimony of Reading

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/09/13

To fully understand this current reading “crisis” (which really isn’t a crisis at all), it must be seen in the context of similar “crises” occurring in the past (which weren’t really crises either). This current “crisis” is not the first reading crisis to come along (Aydarova, 2024; Berliner & Biddle, 1995; McQuillan, 1998; Thomas, 2024), and it certainly won’t be the last. And when this crisis runs its course, there will be a lull followed by another crisis, and then another, and then

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15:03

Understanding the Limitations of Data and Research in...

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/09/01

The thing about research is that it doesn’t prove anything, at least not in the social sciences. There is no single research that conclusively proves anything once and for all about reading instruction. Research may support a hypothesis. It may provide evidence for something, show something, indicate something, or demonstrate something, but in the social sciences, research doesn’t prove things. The results may indicate, implicate, or illustrate, but educational research doesn’t prove things.SoR

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9:39

The Reading Crisis the Isn't: Context Matters

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/08/26

Words are always encountered in the context of a sign, product, or sentence. In the same way, to be understood, data must be understood and evaluated in the context in which it was collected. Reading research can only be fully understood in the context of a wider array of research studies within a theoretical perspective. And theories must be understood in the context of a paradigm. The Science of Reading movement must be understood in the greater social and political context and in the context

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9:20

Reading Instruction in the Context of Crisis

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/08/12

If you were to consume a lot of popular media today related to education, you would be led to believe that there is a reading crisis. Apparently, it’s all “deeply concerning”. I can’t help but wonder if this current crisis is a new crisis or an extension of an old crisis. In 1983 the United States was said to be “at risk” because of a crisis that started in 1963 (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983). Was that crisis ever resolved? Is this crisis an extension of that crisis?

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14:41

LETRS Does Not Meet Basic SoR Standards

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/08/03

ConclusionsThe Science of Reading promotes the exclusionary use of strategies and practices that have been shown to be effective using controlled experimental or quasi-experimental research conducted in actual classroom settings. Further, this standard should be the basis upon which decisions should be made about reading instruction and reading policies. LETRS fails to meet this basic SoR standard.

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21:20

LETRS: Weasels or Engery Efficient Light Bubls

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/07/20

This podcast examines Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Special (Lexia) or LETRS. I wanted to find the “reliable, trustworthy, and valid evidence” that “has demonstrated” that LETRS had “a record of success in increasing students' reading competency in the areas of phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, and reading comprehension”. I was eager to start reading all the research showing that LETRS professional development had a demonstrated

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20:12

Of Mice and Minnesota: Mouse World and Reading...

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/07/08

Yes, state legislatures have the right to impose statues. Absolutely. But teacher's unions have the right, and the moral obligation to respond. The Read Act and other SoR mandates strip away teachers' right and obligation to provide the type of instruction that is best for their mice-students. They’re forcing teachers to spend hours in state-mandated professional development programs, paid for by state tax dollars. They force schools to purchase state-mandated reading programs. The teaching

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13:39

Emily Hanford is the Alexa App of Reading Instruction

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/06/30

A fact may be true. But the truth of the fact is limited to the context in which it was found. Outside a meaningful context, the fact may mean something different. Also, facts without context can be misapplied and misunderstood. This is true of many of the facts used to support SoR structured approaches to reading instruction known as structured literacy. It is a house built on a series of decontextualized facts.

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37:02

The New Reading Anti-Science Movement in Minnesota

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/06/07

This is an interview with a Minnesota reading Professor. Ideology has replaced science when it comes to reading instruction in Minnesota.

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17:42

12 Essential Elements of a Comprehensive Reading Program

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/05/10

In 1997 Congress asked the National Institute of Children’s Health and Development to work with the U.S. Department of Education to establish a National Reading Panel. Their task was to evaluate existing research in order to find the best ways of teaching children to read. In 2000 the panel issued their 500-page report (National Reading Panel, 2000). This report has been widely cited in books and journal articles related to reading instruction. The NRP describes

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25:11

I Was Wrong: Holy Books, Sacred Texts, Theories,...

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/04/28

Questions: How is it that one interprets the same thing differently across time? How is it that one can read a book, have an experience, or observe phenomena and draw completely different conclusions when the only thing different is the time in which it was read, experienced, or observed? Is time a variable in comprehension or understanding? Is it a variable in constructing meaning? A book that seemed so insightful at one point, with the passage of time, can become meaningless. Likewise, books

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26:33

I'm Woke!!!

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/04/16

There are conditions that tip the scale in favor of some groups and restrict or disadvantage others. There are communities, that seem to get the economic opportunities, good schools, good teachers, health care, good nutrition, housing opportunities, small class sizes, community libraries, well-stocked school and classroom libraries … Go to a 3rd-grade classroom in a poor, inner-city school, or poor rural district. Now go to a 3rd grade classroom in a weather suburb. It's like going to a

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24:31

The Evangelical Department of Education of Minnesota

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/03/30

The Minnesota Department of Education has become the Evangelical Department of Education of Minnesota. It takes a deficit view of teachers. They know nothing. They do the wrong thing. They must be saved by the Great State

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18:07

The Read Act and the Lessons Beyond the Lesson

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/03/24

Recently, the Minnesota State Legislature passed the Read Act, sponsored by Democratic representative Heather Edelson. It’s a law based on the fad of the day; the shiny new thing called the “science of reading”. Ironically, this law is based on misconceptions and un-understandings related to both science and reading. This law states that I and other literacy professors in Minnesota must follow, with fidelity, the mandates put forth by state lawmakers. These are lawmakers who have never taught a

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19:14

Zealotry in the Guise of Reading Science

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/03/03

I could live with a science of reading if the SoR zealots applied the scientific principles they claim to worship and adore to all of reading reality. That is, if the scientific principles that they insist be used to determine what is effective reading instruction were also used to establish cause and effect, I could live with the zealotry. But, they abandon their cherished scientific ideals when identifying problems and evaluating solutions to problems. Look at the reading laws passed by 32 state

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22:12

The Dance and the Joy of Reading Instruction

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/02/21

Dance has much to teach us about five areas of reading instruction:1. Motivation.2. Practice.3. Dance dyslexia4. Whole dancing.5. Context.Whenever a new SoR reading law is passed, the SoR zealots gather a bunch of children together for a picture, and they’re told to smile. And you get pictures of happy smiling children with happy parents all smiling and being happy. Wonderful. It’s a joy façade.Behind the façade is an unwritten narrative. These children were once unhappy and oppressed because of

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16:53

Science of Reading: Where's the Joy?

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/02/17

There is only one emotion that is good for learning: happiness and all its derivations. Joy is a derivation of happiness. Joy is pleasurable. Humans are rewarded by their emotions for doing things that bring them joy. They tend to repeat these behaviors. Fear keeps us from doing certain things. Fear of failure. Fear of humiliation. Also, things that make us sad or unhappy keep us from doing certain things. Being forced to sit in a chair and perform like a trained seal creates sadness, boredom, and

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22:42

Reading, Relgion, and Time

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/02/08

There are five kinds of time in a reading class.Allocated time. There is the amount of time allocated for instruction. Off-task time (OTT). There is OTT when students are doing things unrelated to the lesson or learning objective.TOT. There is also time on task (TOT), where students are actively engaged in learning activities.AET. There is Academic Engagement Time (AET). This is the time when students are cognitively and behaviorally on-task or engaged in learning activities that are within their

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20:48

LETRS, Orthographic Mapping, and Ignorance Mapping

The Reading Instruction Show ·

2024/02/03

In becoming responsible consumers of educational research, we must ask four questions when claims are made that research has “proven these expensive, code-oriented, one-size-fits-all reading programs to be effective.1. Are the results of these code-oriented reading programs persistent? That is, do they last after the code-oriented instruction has been discontinued?2. Do the skills learned in these code-oriented reading programs transfer to real-life situations?3. Do these code-oriented programs

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