Rhonda Stone
@rstonereading.bsky.social
—37 years supporting educators and parents with k-12 learning (author/co-author, 2 books)
—25 years working with a national reading expert
—8 years tutoring with the expert’s methods
—1/1/2025: Co-founder, Read Right Reading Improvement Network
—25 years working with a national reading expert
—8 years tutoring with the expert’s methods
—1/1/2025: Co-founder, Read Right Reading Improvement Network
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Here's progress a student of mine made in 7 months & the core strategy used. This is Stage 4. Stage 2: readers begin to anticipate meaning; Stage 3: they figure out how to integrate phonics to support anticipation; Stage 4: continuous focus on excellence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfu...
Garrett July 2024
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December 7, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Here's progress a student of mine made in 7 months & the core strategy used. This is Stage 4. Stage 2: readers begin to anticipate meaning; Stage 3: they figure out how to integrate phonics to support anticipation; Stage 4: continuous focus on excellence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfu...
Here's progress a student of mine made in 7 months & the core strategy used. This is Stage 4. Stage 2: readers begin to anticipate meaning; Stage 3: they figure out how to integrate phonics to support anticipation; Stage 4: continuous focus on excellence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfu...
Garrett July 2024
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December 7, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Here's progress a student of mine made in 7 months & the core strategy used. This is Stage 4. Stage 2: readers begin to anticipate meaning; Stage 3: they figure out how to integrate phonics to support anticipation; Stage 4: continuous focus on excellence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfu...
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@evidentlyreading.bsky.social I’m glad we’re talking. I see you work with Striving Readers. In 2010, Ed. NW completed an independent study of the methods we use. Results @ 2 of 4 schools documented effect sizes 2xs the size of the best Striving Readers projects, in 1/2 the time (4.5 mos v 9 mos).
December 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM
@evidentlyreading.bsky.social I’m glad we’re talking. I see you work with Striving Readers. In 2010, Ed. NW completed an independent study of the methods we use. Results @ 2 of 4 schools documented effect sizes 2xs the size of the best Striving Readers projects, in 1/2 the time (4.5 mos v 9 mos).
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Please question, comment, criticize. Here's a child I taught to read working an average 3 days a week, 1/2 hour each session, was able to read by November. We started at the end of January the same year. I NEVER asked him to sound out or syllabicate a single word:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
Coaching 4 Finishing the Journey
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December 3, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Please question, comment, criticize. Here's a child I taught to read working an average 3 days a week, 1/2 hour each session, was able to read by November. We started at the end of January the same year. I NEVER asked him to sound out or syllabicate a single word:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
Please question, comment, criticize. Here's a child I taught to read working an average 3 days a week, 1/2 hour each session, was able to read by November. We started at the end of January the same year. I NEVER asked him to sound out or syllabicate a single word:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
Coaching 4 Finishing the Journey
YouTube video by Rhonda Stone
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Please question, comment, criticize. Here's a child I taught to read working an average 3 days a week, 1/2 hour each session, was able to read by November. We started at the end of January the same year. I NEVER asked him to sound out or syllabicate a single word:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRi2...
(#2) SoR is STUCK on 1 idea: reading ability can only develop through word naming skills. True? It isn't how I'm teaching reading, and it isn't how I remediate reading problems. This never asked to decode or name a single word. This video was early in the process:
December 3, 2024 at 5:19 AM
(#2) SoR is STUCK on 1 idea: reading ability can only develop through word naming skills. True? It isn't how I'm teaching reading, and it isn't how I remediate reading problems. This never asked to decode or name a single word. This video was early in the process:
Good or bad science? There's broad disagreement about what the "Science of Reading" is. USC/Berkeley defines "science" as a body of knowledge AND a process of discovery. YES: SoR IS a body of knowledge. NO: SoR IS NOT proactively testing alternative views...
undsci.berkeley.edu/understandin...
undsci.berkeley.edu/understandin...
What is science? - Understanding Science
undsci.berkeley.edu
December 3, 2024 at 4:50 AM
Good or bad science? There's broad disagreement about what the "Science of Reading" is. USC/Berkeley defines "science" as a body of knowledge AND a process of discovery. YES: SoR IS a body of knowledge. NO: SoR IS NOT proactively testing alternative views...
undsci.berkeley.edu/understandin...
undsci.berkeley.edu/understandin...
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(2) Not accurate. What meaning does “hot dog” have to you? Now, does the meaning in your mind work for this sentence? “The hot dog pants in the sun.” Likely not. This article explains how the brain can use strategic phonics clues to quickly anticipate meaning.
www.treehugger.com/why-your-bra...
www.treehugger.com/why-your-bra...
Why Your Brain Can Read Jumbled Letters
Tehse wrods may look lkie nosnesne, but yuo can raed tehm, cna't yuo? Want to know why? Here's how the brain processes jumbled words.
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December 2, 2024 at 7:20 PM
(2) Not accurate. What meaning does “hot dog” have to you? Now, does the meaning in your mind work for this sentence? “The hot dog pants in the sun.” Likely not. This article explains how the brain can use strategic phonics clues to quickly anticipate meaning.
www.treehugger.com/why-your-bra...
www.treehugger.com/why-your-bra...
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I’m not ignoring decades of research. The studies supporting word-level reading development typically test using word lists—not sentences. fMRI research has documented that efficient sentence reading results in a much more dynamic pattern of neural activation compared to naming words on lists.
December 2, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I’m not ignoring decades of research. The studies supporting word-level reading development typically test using word lists—not sentences. fMRI research has documented that efficient sentence reading results in a much more dynamic pattern of neural activation compared to naming words on lists.
FINALLY: Equipped with reading “basics” (essential phonetic information & other print basics), the child starts with books at carefully analyzed reading levels. Her system is brilliant: it moves children from “no reading ability” to “excellent reading” (full comprehension & oral fluency).
December 2, 2024 at 3:20 AM
FINALLY: Equipped with reading “basics” (essential phonetic information & other print basics), the child starts with books at carefully analyzed reading levels. Her system is brilliant: it moves children from “no reading ability” to “excellent reading” (full comprehension & oral fluency).
Tadlock holds Piaget’s greatest contribution to early learning theory as interactive constructivism (the inherent ability to set an objective and experiment until success is achieved). Her methods, therefore, teach basics quickly, but then shift to highly structured experimentation by the child.
December 2, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Tadlock holds Piaget’s greatest contribution to early learning theory as interactive constructivism (the inherent ability to set an objective and experiment until success is achieved). Her methods, therefore, teach basics quickly, but then shift to highly structured experimentation by the child.
“Ages & stages” learning theory comes from Piaget. Reading researcher L. Ehri applied “stages” theory to map word-level reading development. Tadlock sees all word level reading instruction as having potential to open doors to reading problems. Reliable prevention requires a shift to meaning.
December 2, 2024 at 3:07 AM
“Ages & stages” learning theory comes from Piaget. Reading researcher L. Ehri applied “stages” theory to map word-level reading development. Tadlock sees all word level reading instruction as having potential to open doors to reading problems. Reliable prevention requires a shift to meaning.
Methods I use (created by Dee Tadlock) in a way align with Ehri. But Ehri doesn’t provide detailed guidance on how to help children achieve the stages she maps out. Tadlock does map procedures in detail—and does so by dividing & delivering explicit skill instruction & implicit procedural learning.
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December 2, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Methods I use (created by Dee Tadlock) in a way align with Ehri. But Ehri doesn’t provide detailed guidance on how to help children achieve the stages she maps out. Tadlock does map procedures in detail—and does so by dividing & delivering explicit skill instruction & implicit procedural learning.
ROSES to those posting Qs & comments. The newer guidance from reading experts (see link) IS better than the original interpretation of the NRP’s review of reading research, but there’s no doubt emphasis is still in the wrong place: word-level reading.
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
SST3 Literacy - Ehri's Four Phases of Word Reading
Ehri's Phases of Word-Reading
Ehri (1996, 2014) conceptualizes word reading development into four phases, prealphabetic, early alphabetic, later alphabetic, and consolidated alphabetic. Each stage il...
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December 2, 2024 at 2:47 AM
ROSES to those posting Qs & comments. The newer guidance from reading experts (see link) IS better than the original interpretation of the NRP’s review of reading research, but there’s no doubt emphasis is still in the wrong place: word-level reading.
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
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Not accurate. Shanahan is now against “Advanced Phonemic Awareness,” but cite’s Ehri’s stages of word identification as the guidance the field should follow. This guidance STILL promotes individual word recognition, but in stages.
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
SST3 Literacy - Ehri's Four Phases of Word Reading
Ehri's Phases of Word-Reading
Ehri (1996, 2014) conceptualizes word reading development into four phases, prealphabetic, early alphabetic, later alphabetic, and consolidated alphabetic. Each stage il...
sites.google.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Not accurate. Shanahan is now against “Advanced Phonemic Awareness,” but cite’s Ehri’s stages of word identification as the guidance the field should follow. This guidance STILL promotes individual word recognition, but in stages.
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
sites.google.com/escneo.org/s...
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The 33-page National Reading Panel Executive Summary suggests that individual word recognition skills must precede explicit instruction in fluency and comprehension. The Panel’s findings started SoR; it’s been added to since:
www.nichd.nih.gov/publications...
www.nichd.nih.gov/publications...
Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
The content in this publication was accurate at the
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November 30, 2024 at 8:14 AM
The 33-page National Reading Panel Executive Summary suggests that individual word recognition skills must precede explicit instruction in fluency and comprehension. The Panel’s findings started SoR; it’s been added to since:
www.nichd.nih.gov/publications...
www.nichd.nih.gov/publications...
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What is your citation for saying that the “science of reading holds that PA, phonics/decoding” must be taught first?
November 30, 2024 at 5:33 AM
What is your citation for saying that the “science of reading holds that PA, phonics/decoding” must be taught first?
Hey all—I’m still learning to use BlueSky. Ask me questions if you missed earlier info or replies.
November 29, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Hey all—I’m still learning to use BlueSky. Ask me questions if you missed earlier info or replies.
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(#3) UG School, Union Gap, WA transformed a high-poverty, lowest-in-state K8 school in reading into one of the best in 3 years. It received accolades from the U.S. Senate & WA governor. An RR teacher’s study & poster presentation was accepted & presented @ the Int’l Rodin Remediation Symposium.
November 29, 2024 at 7:22 PM
(#3) UG School, Union Gap, WA transformed a high-poverty, lowest-in-state K8 school in reading into one of the best in 3 years. It received accolades from the U.S. Senate & WA governor. An RR teacher’s study & poster presentation was accepted & presented @ the Int’l Rodin Remediation Symposium.
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(#2)…that evaluation study was rejected by T. Shanahan, P. McCardle & the What Works Clearinghouse because it didn’t compare one intervention to another. It had a control group (kids who didn’t receive the intervention). It produced effect sizes that are supposed to be comparable across studies.
November 29, 2024 at 7:15 PM
(#2)…that evaluation study was rejected by T. Shanahan, P. McCardle & the What Works Clearinghouse because it didn’t compare one intervention to another. It had a control group (kids who didn’t receive the intervention). It produced effect sizes that are supposed to be comparable across studies.
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Correct! Because ESSA has been burying the info for 20 years. It exists. Read Right was rated highly for secondary reading remediation (Drop-out prevention)—but that is now missing. Education Northwest associated w/ IES found it highly effective in HALF the time as compared to Read 180…
November 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Correct! Because ESSA has been burying the info for 20 years. It exists. Read Right was rated highly for secondary reading remediation (Drop-out prevention)—but that is now missing. Education Northwest associated w/ IES found it highly effective in HALF the time as compared to Read 180…
I admire the hard work educators do. Working inside k12 ed, I know they’ve searched for years for solutions to low reading ability. I started the search 25 years ago to help my kids when they struggled. Success came from rejecting the science of reading—not embracing it. That says something.
November 29, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I admire the hard work educators do. Working inside k12 ed, I know they’ve searched for years for solutions to low reading ability. I started the search 25 years ago to help my kids when they struggled. Success came from rejecting the science of reading—not embracing it. That says something.
Thank u 4 the gr8 q’s coming n. Notc taht u cn sltil rdea tihs. It’s bcs teh bairn is ceeeknig menaing. Taht is raegdin!
November 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Thank u 4 the gr8 q’s coming n. Notc taht u cn sltil rdea tihs. It’s bcs teh bairn is ceeeknig menaing. Taht is raegdin!