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Author Archives: Deborah McCallum
Reading, Disability & Blackness
After listening to Thomas Reid and his must-listen-to podcast “Reid My Mind Radio” I find myself thinking deeper about blackness and reading, disability and reading, and of course, the intersectionality of blackness and disability.
Special Education and Disability
The problem of disability.
Brain Words Book Club: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching
“When we speak of building a dictionary in each child’s brain, we are referring to building a bank of syllables and words within each child – that includes information on pronunciation, meaning, and critically, spelling. These stored patterns and words referred to by scientists as lexical representations, we refer to here as brain words” p 2.
Literacy Instruction: From ‘Best Practices’ to Centering Student Voices
I am thinking about the intersections of literacy instruction and learning that centers the voices of Black students. I know that even as I am thinking about this, and sharing my own thoughts and questions, that I have been indoctrinated with racist tendencies that I have subconsciously absorbed: 10 Ways Good White People Can HelpContinue reading “Literacy Instruction: From ‘Best Practices’ to Centering Student Voices”
Assessment Literacy – via Lyn Sharratt
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Feedback in Online Learning Environments – Canadian School Libraries Journal
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Guided Reading with Adolescent Readers
How to create a flexible framework of Guided Reading to be responsive to needs of Adolescent readers. Differentiation and equity.