Great idea. Parents also need to see regular monitoring data too!

No real research support for the integration of art into improving literacy. Stick with the research!

Limericks are fun too!

The Jabberwocky and the Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis!

I read all of your well done coverage!

Get a different teachers. Sign up for a reading tutor. Teach the reading yourself.

Good to see the governor engaged in the issue as the moribund state education leadership is totally lost in a fog! If you know what I mean. Maybe it involves kickbacks from publishers. It wouldn’t be the first time!.

The Science of Reading was handed to educators on a silver platter over 20 years ago. Since then we have sown almost 50 million illiterate 4th graders! Beyond imagination! No?

I think we have to be careful about framing the best approaches to teaching reading as philosophical. The best ways to teach reading are based on science and evidence. It is not a philosophic proposition. Doctors don’t consider the use of antibiotics to treat bacterial disease as a philosophic dialectic! No?

Sad state of affairs that reflect very poor leadership in my view

Thank you for your efforts!

We need these assessments for accountability purposes as well as individual student diagnostic purposes as well.

I have calculated that almost 50 million 4th graders are illiterate over 20 years as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Are we going to hold educators responsible for this travesty or just move on?

Where and how can parents find out whether their children are on track to be good readers? How can they get valid and reliable assessment results for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary? Informed parents want to know!

Could it be that the K-12 education is woefully incapable of seriously adopting science-based approaches to reading due to its corrupt political structure and toxic culture of self over service and loyalty over competence?

Am I asking too many questions?

How can we advocate for regular assessments of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary using valid and reliable assessments? We need to know whether our children are on track to being able to read in the early grades - certainly before grade 3!

How do we insure that curriculum and instructional approaches that align with the science of reading do not get thrown on the ash heap of so many failed educational initiatives due to failed implementation?

What role should Tony Thurmond and Linda Darling Hammond play in advancing the science of reading in our state?

What role does money play in how governance and school districts select and use reading curriculum in our state? Always follow the money?

Should we be investigating how the colleges of education prepare their students to teach reading? It is my understanding that about 1/2 of colleges of education nationwide teach science-based reading curriculum, pedagogy, and approaches to assessments!

Can you spend a little time in explaining the 5 essential elements that constitute the 5 essential elements of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary?

Get a different teacher asap! Pay for tutoring. Do it yourself!

Students need to progress from being able to clearly hear the 44 phonemes. Then relate these phonemes to graphemes - written words. Then fluency is critical - being able to read with automaticity. Of course comprehension and vocabulary must be ongoing as well.

In order to help children with reading, engage them in rhyming activities. This will help them identify phonemes and the sounds that make up spoken words - a critical first step in reading!