Episode 6: The Reading Wars Part 2: the language basis of reading, parent and teacher advocacy, and future casting with Emily Hanford, Kate Nation, & Norma Craffey

The Reading Wars part 2: Kate Nation updates us on what's been happening since we last spoke to her and Anne Castles about their paper on the reading wars, Emily Hanford tells us about her advocacy for better reading instruction, and Norma Craffey provides her view from the trenches as a teacher and reading specialist ​

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Guests:

Emily Hanford, Senior Producer/Education Correspondent, American Public Media. 

Kate Nation, Professor, University of Oxford, St. John's College, England 

Norma Craffey, MEd, CAS, WDP, PhD student in the MGH Institute interdisciplinary PhD in Rehabilitation Science program

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Guests on Twitter
Emily

• Twitter: @ehanford

Kate

• @ReadOxford

Norma

• ​Twitter: @NHC102

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​Resources:

• Ending the Reading wars paper
• Times Education Supplement on the reading wars
• Hard to Read podcast and article
• What is dyslexia? 
• What to do if your child's school isn't teaching reading right? 
• Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way? 
• A Field Guide to the Literacy Tsunami 
• Open letter to school board from parents
• Open letter to teachers from parents
• Open Letter From A Struggling Reader
• Kate’s recent simple view of reading paper - out soon at Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties
• Language Unlocks Literacy UK policy paper

Sources and further reading about dyslexia and reading research: ​

• ​https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/09/10/further-reading-hard-words 
• https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/11/further-reading-hard-to-read

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