S02E13 - Professor Pamela Snow on why it takes a village to change reading instruction

Knowledge for Teachers

In this episode, Brendan Lee speaks with Professor Pamela Snow. She has been at the coalface fighting for evidence-based reading instruction to be common practice for a number of years and throughout this conversation, she provides nuggets of gold in describing how when we talk about phonics we need to be using it as an adjective with a noun following it. Pamela unpacks why this debate about reading has been going on for so long and why changing teacher practice can be so challenging. She also delves into what parents need to know and what questions they could be asking.

Resources mentioned:

• Grattan Institute - The Reading Guarantee
• Nancy Young’s Reading and Writing Ladder
• Science of Reading Podcast S2-05: The Right to Read Project on nurturing automatic readers: Margaret Goldberg and Alanna Mednick
• Troy Verey
• Dr Danielle Colenbrander
• Dr. Pam Kastner
• Emily Hanford - Sold a Story
• Professor Lorraine Hammond

You can connect with Pam:

Twitter: @PamelaSnow2

Linkedin

Website: https://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/

You can connect with Brendan:

Twitter: @learnwithmrlee

Facebook: @learningwithmrlee

Website: learnwithlee.net

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