Timothy Shanahan
@ReadingShanahan
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Timothy Shanahan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chicago, IL, USA
Joined July 2013
This is fascinating. And further evidence that if you work in education you should be following @C_Hendrick
Vygotsky's 'Zone of Proximal Development' is perhaps the most misunderstood idea in education. It was never a teaching method but a metaphor for how teaching can pull thinking upward, from the everyday to the scientific. ⬇️ 🧵
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The argument that I hear many teachers make that as long as students are reading anything has resulted in the steep decline in reading stamina from complex texts and the vocabulary acquisition with it. It is not a victory for the non reading 8th grader to read Dog Man.
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Amen!
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@DTWillingham @natwexler @ehanford Schools do need to get more than just phonics right. This week, we see @ReadingShanahan with a letter to the editor in @WSJ, ultimately cautioning that California’s phonics-focused reading legislation will have limited impact. Tim just penned a book on the need for students to
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Letters: Phonics Won’t Cure California’s Literacy Woes https://t.co/B2FJBY7YWK via @WSJopinion
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Past reforms led to early reading gains but without any long-lasting advantage to students.
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Super important read from @ReadingShanahan. All I can say is "Ditto, Tim!"⬇️ "We need not abandon small-group instruction but should employ it sparingly—and strategically. By doing so, we would increase the amount of instruction at least threefold." https://t.co/kctnhbnF4R
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We’re missing out on a golden opportunity—one that could effectively triple literacy instruction overnight.
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@BenisonMrs @ReadingShanahan This is why it may make sense to use a combination of decodables and guided reading texts and possibly vocabulary controlled texts for foundational skills instruction. Regardless of text, always prompt students to visually process each word as the primary strategy for word rec.
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Ask me about the strain a strong acoustic environment puts on executive functions. (It’s not good news)
New post: Is a Noisy Classroom a Thinking Classroom? Link in reply 👇
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Learn from @ReadingShanahan about how to teach text at the appropriate level to maximize learning for all students! Join us on Oct 25- or register to get a recording. https://t.co/vNGGFRUsIu
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Dr. Timothy Shanahan presents The Science of Text Levels: Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives.
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It should be obvious, but it is not always so. Understanding one's instructional goals is essential to effectiveness and instructional decision-making. I have heard so many teachers struggle with the lack of pictures in some decodable texts for novice readers, so much so that
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"However, according to scads of studies, such pictures provide more distraction than support (e.g., Harzem, Lee, & Miles, 1976; Samuels, 1970). We learn to remember and read words by looking at the words, that is, by looking at the combinations of the letters of which the words
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Early career teachers: Shanahan hits a bullseye with "What Role Should Pictures Play in Teaching Reading?"
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Clear, thorough and practical exploration of the role pictures can play in reading by @ReadingShanahan “Pictures may initially compete with the words in comprehension, but they’re essential for helping kids to gain coherent representations of what they read.”
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Thorough & practical exploration of the role pictures can play in reading by @ReadingShanahan . “Pictures may initially compete with the words in comprehension, but they’re essential for helping kids to gain coherent representations of what they read.” https://t.co/TS7wDQ3HMr
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