@TinaForKentucky I thought it was my kid! I’m so upset I trusted our “good” schools! They have no plans to review the use of F&P and Lucy.

@RobinBasney "Strategies for unknown words" rather than "ability to decode." So frustrating.

@TinaForKentucky @TinaForKentucky can you build a special Twitter filter for me? One that only allows me to see replies from people who’ve: - taught reading - to a full classroom of students (at least 24) - spent years researching reading - who are iteration-based - positively seeking solutions?

@BloomBulldogs I'll personally text you!

@TinaForKentucky I’m looking at the comprehension questions now and I’m not seeing what you’re seeing. I’ll also attach a picture that shows picture/text correspondence, which does not mean children use solely the pictures to read. It just means that they match.

@teachthethings My student looked at the pictures on every page to figure out what the word was.

@TinaForKentucky 😩

@TinaForKentucky Exactly. I’ve had students that can read cvc words, digraphs, and blends, but can’t make it past level A because I’ve taught them to decode, not look at the pictures and guess.

@TinaForKentucky @harney2_h You’d have to laugh at “100% comprehension” here. High quality literature right there. 🙄

@TinaForKentucky Not teaching reading; just teaching coping skills for those who cannot read. Sad.

@TinaForKentucky Looking at pictures to guess a word is not reading.

@TinaForKentucky Aggravating

@TinaForKentucky Wow. Also, 3rd grade? Is this an assessment for a student with “intervention?” Or is this what regular-classroom 3rd graders are “reading?”

@TinaForKentucky Awful 😖

@TinaForKentucky I haven’t used that assessment even once since being back in the classroom. There are more effective assessments imo that garner better results. Quicker, too!

@TinaForKentucky Just listened to the podcast “Sold a Story”. A eye opening indictment of this “reading” system and the great financial ties between school districts and publishers. Makes a Montessori teacher weep. 100 years of phonics…generations of good readers.

@TinaForKentucky Not to mention the steady diet of this exact style of contrived writing that our earliest readers are inundated with in their book baggies must impact their writing development no wonder their writing always sounds like a list …🥲🥲🥲we can do so much better …

@TinaForKentucky When I look at this book with a different perspective, this is so much…there are so many things going on—silent letter e, -ing, digraph ch…Do we teach all those things to emergent readers? Nope! Then, how did some kids possibly read the text and got 100% accuracy? By guessing!

@TinaForKentucky There are ways to teach emergent readers about everything they need to know in order to read this level A text. By guessing the tricky words, using the pictures, is not one of them. Time to teach REAL how to read!

@TinaForKentucky I hated these tests .. never understood how highly educated people actually made them… it’s the biggest joke of the century