Mark your calendars for Monday, January 29! You won’t want to miss Unshrinking Literacy, Teaching and Learning with Peter Johnston.

The currently popular literacy narrative is that intensive, structured phonics programs backed by “The Science of Reading” are the grail long sought by educators. It’s true that children need to acquire “the codes,” but the manner and ecology of acquisition matters a great deal not only for the ease of acquisition but also for the nature of the literacy children acquire and for the trajectory of their human development. Children’s social and emotional development lies squarely in the bailiwick of the language arts and the literate talk within which they are immersed, and that development, in turn, supports literacy development. 

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