"But also it just began to dawn on me the number of kids who were sitting in classrooms whose parents just hadn't stumbled into some random group of knowledgeable people, which is what happened to me," she said. What followed was a brief exposure to Structure Literacy, of learning to decode words through phonemic awareness. Purcell said when she saw that she knew Balanced Literacy hadn't taught her son to read. With no purple cue on the last page, he was lost. "But he never could read the last page, which didn't follow the pattern," she said. This technique is called cueing, and it's how Purcell's own son was taught. "And so it's like, you know, the fence is purple, the door is purple, the swing is purple."Īnd there in the text, unbeknownst to a beginning reader, would be the word "Purple."īut instead of breaking down the word (PUH UHR PUH UHL), the student would be told to look at the picture and the word and guess what it was. "We call them patterned books," Purcell said. The idea was to make reading fun by giving students special books where pictures are tied to text. For three decades a Balanced Literacy publishing industry worth billions has been centered around a professor from teachers college Columbia in New York named Lucy Calkins. "I mean, I'll be the first to admit and I say this all the time, I was a balanced literacy fangirl," Purcell said. She used Balanced Literacy, as did most schools in the country. When Missy Purcell taught reading in Georgia's largest school district in Gwinnett County several years ago, it was not like this. In Georgia that's inspired new laws in hopes of a literacy sea change. What's followed is called the Science of Reading movement. Grant Blankenship/Georgia Public Broadcasting. Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga., recently. Quantesha Pittman explains blends, or sounds made when two or more letters are put next to each other, to third grade students at John R.
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