@lifelonglit My relationship with S2P Pt1, the honeymoon: Yay!! My S is actually learning to read! Pt2, honeymoon is over: It okay, S just needs more exposures to orthographically map this word… Pt3, the divorce: After 1000s of exposures to the spellings of /ae/, S spells “tray” as “trae”

@lesley_odonohue That's hilarious, Lesley! Chat soon! x

@lifelonglit We do not follow a program, not one sole program would work for our students - we follow the research. I understand why schools go down the program route because they need to get buy in, but I feel as knowledge and expertise increase they need to be faded out.

@lifeoflottie Well said!

@lifelonglit I love your posts Lyn! I still have a lot of learning to do and I am humble enough to admit that.

@ErinCKing I have a ton of learning to do too!

@lifelonglit I appreciate this post so much. I got virtually jumped in the SoR Facebook group for saying this last spring. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@lifelonglit This really was an interesting read, especially after seeing your webinar on TRL. Lots to think about.

@lifelonglit Brilliant post, Lyn.

@JoCon71823067 I'm glad you asked and of course I don't view questions as snark! You can get kids reading with most approaches, but writing...well, that takes a lot more!

@lifelonglit 100% agree!

@lifelonglit Your timing is serendipitous. We were talking about similar concerns this afternoon.

@lifelonglit Good thoughts. Things this S2Per (though hadn't heard that term until recently) has been writing about for years. I look forward to hearing responses.

@lifelonglit I’m actually not annoyed at all. What I’ve found in the education space is that people are guilty of making buzz words of things and not truly taking the time to learn as much as possible before diving in head first.

@lifelonglit Love it! 👏👏

@lifelonglit We can teach kids to read using good instruction with sticks, little pebbles, and dirt. No need for programs at all, just knowledge. Some books would be nice.

@lifelonglit Well said. English is complex.

@lifelonglit As we work to remove implicit bias in classrooms, this part is esp. important: "How you say words may be different from how your students say words – the sounds in words are the least stable... thing about them... Spelling is stable. Morphemes are stable. Pronunciation is not..."

@lifelonglit This is so strange. I literally listened to a podcast on STP this afternoon and was going to research it further. Maybe now I won’t.