The Curse of Expert Knowledge: Why Reading Instruction Fails Struggling Kids

 

Unpacking Ego, Misguided Phonics, and the Hidden Barriers to Building True Literacy Connections

Below is a tweet by Brett Benson (@SoLInTheWild).

Here are my thoughts:

How does a child prone to disengaging from reading connect concepts when they've been taught the sounds of letters incorrectly from the start?

Ego or stupidity (Part 2)

 

The phonological awareness deficit as the cause of dyslexia was debunked around 2017. Even with the research reports debunking that theory and my explanation of my students being able to read in Malay and Pinyin how audacious is it for James Chapman to say that he stands by what he and Tunmer wrote in 1996?

In 2021 I wrote to James Chapman again. Here is my email.