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A call for rejecting the newest reading wars

19/11/2022 Kurnia Ardha
A call for rejecting the newest reading wars

To the Editor:

Re “A company has made millions selling books on reading instruction rooted in bad science” (Nov. 10, 2022)

We are educators who have devoted our lives to the cause of helping children read and write with power. We’re dismayed that at this moment in our history, when all of us should be banding together to support literacy education, the podcast “Sold a Story” fans divisiveness, creating a false sense that there is a war going on between those who believe in phonics and those who do not. Systematic phonics instruction is essential. That is a settled issue. And essential, too, is comprehension strategy instruction, knowledge building, vocabulary acquisition, language development, writing process, culturally responsive teaching, emotional well-being and attention to educational equity.

The “Sold a Story” podcast takes the fabricated phonics debate a step further, attacking the integrity of a group of educators who have led pioneering research and helped advance our field.

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At a time when information spreads quickly and, sadly, too many important issues have become oversimplified and polarized, it is irresponsible to reduce the teaching of reading to phonics instruction and nothing more. To imply that other approaches are not just wrong, but money-making schemes, is reckless. Teachers and students will not benefit from biased storytelling and finger-pointing, especially when so much is at stake.

You can believe in the critical importance of phonics and not agree with the incomplete story being sold in “Sold a Story,” which paints educators as naively inadequate, gives them a lot less credit than they deserve and diminishes their agency.

We are asking for the rest of the story. The research that is being ignored, the stories of school districts and educators who have seen incredible success using comprehensive approaches to reading instruction that are conveniently left out of this narrative.

And we are asking that those who truly care about doing the real work come together and move forward in a productive way that recognizes all the elements of effective reading instruction. Let’s stop wasting our time fighting with each other and focus on what matters most.

Dr. Randy Bomer

Dean, College of Education, University of North Texas

Dr. Celia Oyler

Vice dean for teacher education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Laura Asceni-Moreno

Professor of bilingual education & bilingual program coordinator, CBSE, Brooklyn College

Katherine Bomer

Professor of practice in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration, UNT

Dr. Paul Thomas

Professor of education, Furman University

Dr. Timothy Rasinski

Professor of literacy education, Kent State University

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Founder and president, Curriculum Designers

Mike Matthews

President of Authentic Education

Dr. Sam Bommarito

National reading consultant

Lois Bridges

Executive director, Bring Me a Book

Elisa Brown

Principal, PS 249, winner, Blue Ribbon Schools Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding Leadership

Sandy Brown

Director of elementary curriculum, Denton ISD TX

Christopher Paul Curtis

Winner of the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and a National Book Award finalist

Georgia Heard

Poet and author of “Awakening the Heart,” “The Revision Toolbox” and “Falling Down the Page”

Carmen Agra Deedy

New York Times bestselling children’s book author

James Howe

Award-winning author of books for children and young adults

Sarah Weeks

Author of the bestselling novels “Pie,” “Save Me a Seat” and “So B. It”

Naomi Shihab Nye

National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award and Pushcart Award winner, chancellor emeritus, Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2019–21

Dr. Harvey “Smokey” Daniels

Author of “The Curious Classroom,” “Upstanders” and “Literature Circles”

Dr. Cecilia Espinosa

Associate professor, Early Childhood Graduate Program, Lehman College

Michael Fisher

The Digigogy Collaborative, and Curriculum21 Faculty

Phil Daro

Educational designer

Prof. Lynne Einbender

Bank Street College of Education faculty

Dr. Lucy Calkins

Richard Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University; founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

Leslie Zackman

Retired superintendent, New York City

Carl Anderson

Educational consultant, author of “A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Conferences” and “How’s It Going? A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers”

Dr. Rachael Gabriel

Professor of literacy education at the University of Connecticut

Ellin Keene

Author of “The Literacy Studio,” “Engaging Children” and “The Teacher You Want to Be”

Ruth Swinney

Educational consultant and author

Dr. Daniel Friedrich

Associate professor of curriculum, Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Ofelia García

Professor, Ph.D. program in urban education, and Ph.D. program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages, City University of New York

Dr. Patricia Velasco

Associate professor of bilingual education, Queens College, CUNY

Dr. María Paula Ghiso

Associate professor, Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Cecelia Traugh

Dean, Bank Street Graduate School of Education

Dr. Phyllis Harrington

Superintendent, Oceanside Union Free SD

Dr. Kara Hollins

Lecturer, preservice elementary inclusive program in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University

Dr. Mary Howard

Expert in literacy, author of “Good to Great Teaching,” “RTI from All Sides” and “Moving Forward with RTI”

Bena Kallick

Co-Director, The Institute for Habits of Mind

Penny Kittle

Teacher, author, advocate

Laura Kotch

Retired NYC deputy chancellor

Jonathan Kozol

Author, National Book Award winner

Dr. Heidi Mills

Distinguished professor emerita at the University of South Carolina, educational consultant

Dr. Cara Furman

Associate professor of literacy education, University of Maine–Farmington

Dr. Douglas Reeves

Author and founder of Creative Leadership Solutions

Donna Santman

Education consultant, author of “Shades of Meaning”

Maurice Sykes

Author, former executive director of the Early Childhood Leadership institute at the University of the District of Columbia

Dr. Dick Allington

Professor emeritus, reading education, University of Tennessee

Dr. Amy Tondreau

Assistant professor, elementary education, University of Maryland

Dr. Mary Ehrenworth

Senior deputy director, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

Marc Tucker

Founder and CEO emeritus of the National Center on Education and the Economy

Patricia Vitale-Reilly

Educational consultant, author

Prof. Molly Welsh Kruger

Bank Street College of Education faculty, Reading & Literacy Program

Dr. Marjorie Siegel

Professor emerita, Teachers College, Columbia University

Anita Silvey

Author of “Children’s Books and Their Creators” and “100 Best Books for Children”

Dr. Kylene Beers

Author of “When Kids Can’t Read/What Teachers Can Do;” co-editor of “Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice”

Dr. Connie Briggs

Professor emeritus, Texas Woman’s University

Dr. Erika Dawes

Professor, chair of Language and Literacy Department, Lesley University

Dr. Mary K. Lose

Professor, Department of Reading and Language Arts, and director of the Reading Recovery Center of Michigan at Oakland University

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