Frankly Freddy

• Immunizations and treatments in early reading: What if we’ve got the wrong ones?

  Might it be that the immunization effort of the past decade in early reading education has contributed to problems that are far more serious than word recognition ever was? Might it even be that students’ word recognition is, in fact, quite good and that it is their background knowledge and engagement in reading that is the real problem?

  Posted 08/04/2010 Read more...

• Opening the dialogue: What’s the story about beginning reading texts?

  There are some children who come to school who officially learn to read in school but who have had hundreds of hours of experiences with books, print, and language play.

  Posted 06/24/2010 Read more...

• What Exactly is a Decodable Text?

  Any text written in English is decodable at some level in that the code never deviates from the alphabetic system. However, the degree to which the letter-sound correspondences within words are common or consistent can vary considerably.

  Posted 06/17/2010 Read more...

• Have the texts of beginning reading been dumbed down over the past 50 years?

  Posted 06/11/2010 Read more...

• Whatever Happened to Dick and Jane?

  If you were 6 years old between 1930-1967 in the U.S., there is a high likelihood that this text was the first of your school career.

  Posted 06/04/2010 Read more...

• High-Leverage Action #3: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

  ELLs may have the concepts of a topic but simply give the concepts different labels than the English ones. In a unit on the human body, native Spanish speakers know about a skeleton.

  Posted 11/14/2009 Read more...

• High-Leverage Action #2: Spanish Cognates and Written Language

  In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common origin.

  Posted 11/07/2009 Read more...

• High-Leverage Action #1: Talking About Things That Matter

  We know that oral language is a primary way in which meaning gets constructed and built. Through talk, we come to understand concepts and our interpretations and ownership of ideas.

  Posted 10/31/2009 Read more...

• High-Leverage Actions That Can Make a Difference: Some Useful Background

  As facilitator of the 2009 CREATE conference, I promised attendees that I would reflect on what I view to the important take-aways from the conference and share them in this venue.

  Posted 10/29/2009 Read more...

• Private, Personal, and Peculiar: The Idioms of English

  An idiom is a phrase whose meaning cannot be established by a literal translation of the words in the phrase.

  Posted 10/01/2009 Read more...

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