[MOSAIC] Focus on Adolescent literacy to chnageReadingFirstfunding

[Ann Schaefer]

Yes Deidra,

If teachers are not comfortable with the new language think about how the
parents feel. Reading First spent so much money trying to educate parents
about the fab five: Phonics, Phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and
comprehension; it seems counterproductive to change the wording now.

Ann
Early Elementary teacher
 

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chnageReadingFirstfunding

Maybe I didn't read correctly, but I understand Shanahan to say that the new
language (language structure and meaning in context) isn't "an improvement
because the new wording won't be well understood by most teachers". I don't
think teachers are the only ones who will have problems with that language.
Imagine school administration officials defining these terms for their
certified employees. 
How many different interpretations will that provide? To me , language
structure doesn't mean reading fluency. Meaning in context seems to be a
much narrower definition of comprehension than I am comfortable with.

Deidra Chandler
MA Early Childhood Ed.
MA Reading
Multisensory Structured Language Intervention tutor

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From: "Ann Schaefer" <a_e_s at bellsouth.net>
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>I don't understand why the language needs to be changed.  If the 
>teachers  have trouble with the new language, the parents certainly 
>will too.  I  think  we need to move away from teacher trade language 
>so that we can involve  the  whole community to improve literacy.
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> Subject: [MOSAIC] Focus on Adolescent literacy to chnage Reading 
> Firstfunding
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> Can anyone understand why Tim Shanahan doesn't want to change to 
> "language structure" and "meaning in context"? Was he one of the 
> original authors of National Reading Panel?
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> Excerpt for Ed Weekly...
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> Timothy Shanahan, a professor of urban education at the University of 
> Illinois at Chicago, said he favors the boost in funding for grades
> 4-12 and for school literacy programs in general. "It should mean that 
> more schools could participate, which is a good thing," he said.
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> But he said the draft bill reflects some changes in wording from 
> Reading First legislation that aren't an improvement, because the new 
> wording won't be well understood by most teachers. The new wording 
> requires K-3 programs to provide "strategic and explicit instruction 
> using phonological awareness, phonic decoding, vocabulary, language 
> structure, and meaning in context."
> Mr. Shanahan pointed out that "language structure" and "meaning in 
> context"
> replace the words "reading fluency" and "reading comprehension" in 
> Reading First.
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> One of the Senate aides said the replacements were made to reflect the 
> latest terminology that educators are using.
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> But Mr. Shanahan said the terminology in Reading First would be more 
> familiar to and better understood by teachers.
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> I would love for the discussion to begin again...I could use some help 
> moderating though. I am teaching summer school and am taking classes 
> this summer  so I have a pretty full plate. I do think Ellins' book is 
> something everyone  should read and discussion only enriches its 
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> Jennifer
> In a message dated 6/28/2009 10:15:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> jwidmann at rocketmail.com writes:
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> You can  also read the archives from our two rounds discussing it, as 
> Jennifer  suggested. Maybe there's enough interest to go at it again?
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> really a  valuable book with great implications for the classroom, to 
> me even more than  Mosaic of Thought.
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