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Dec 30, 2007
I was just wondering if any of you have heard of Louisa
Moats, Debbie Diller, and Anita Archer. These 3 women are
held up to us as the ultimate in researched-based literacy
instruction. They are the female "gurus" of No Child Left
Behind and the Reading First initiative. Our reading
coach (we are now a Reading First School--ugggh!) is
always quoting them like they are gods. For 2 years now
we have been learning about their ideas and methods in our
Reading First academies (professional dev. we are mandated
to attend each summer) Four Blocks has been forced out of
our school and yet sooo many of the ideas of Four Blocks
and Patricia Cunningham (like the word wall, Guided Rdg.
inst. etc.) are being held up to us now as the way to
teach but with the RF stamp on all of it. But when I
talked to one of the big kahunas at our RF academy he said
4 Blocks is not researched based and so we can't use it.
But t...See More
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On 12/30/07, mcr wrote:
> I was just wondering if any of you have heard of Louisa
> Moats, Debbie Diller, and Anita Archer. These 3 women are
> held up to us as the ultimate in researched-based literacy
> instruction. They are the female "gurus" of No Child Left
> Behind and the Reading Fi...See More