Naïve Ph.D’s (Part 1)

 

Dr. Gwendolyn Lavert

Her LinkedIn profile says: International Literacy/Leader Trainers Children's Author Bedford, Texas, United States

On 29.10.2024, I had a telephone discussion with Dr. Gwendolyn Lavert. She told me that she will question me on my book that she ordered on-line.

Today, 6.11.2024 I tried to send a message on Facebook and LinkedIn Messenger to no avail. Both messengers have been blocked. Our discussion in 2019 has been deleted. Fortunately, I had copied it before it was deleted.

Facebook has the following message:

Oct 29, 2024, 7:50 AM Gwen Lavert Audio call 47 mins

This person is unavailable on Messenger.

My thoughts on Dr. Gwendolyn's post

 

Here is a post by Dr. Gwendolyn and my thoughts. LINK.

Dr. Gwendolyn:

Can we wait until third grade to address reading gaps when we know that early intervention is effective? Research consistently demonstrates that the sooner we intervene, the better chance we have of closing these gaps before they widen and become more challenging to manage.

 

My thoughts:

I agree. I’ve often questioned why we wait until fourth grade to identify students who aren’t reading at grade level, and I haven’t received a satisfactory answer. This notion that we must wait until fourth grade seems to be perpetuated by those with vested interests. Just think about how many intervention and remediation services would be impacted. Another unanswered question is how we can identify children likely to struggle with reading by the end of first grade right at the beginning of that year.