HOW DO WE HANDLE DIFFERENCES IN THE FIELD OF LITERACY INSTRUCTION

Some of the ideas about reading instruction that I have presented in various formats may be at odds with your previous ways of thinking about things. In fact, some of these ideas may directly conflict with what you believe to be true regarding how children learn to read and how you should teach them to read. This is good. Dissonance or disequilibrium is an important part of learning. I would invite you to neither accept nor reject these new ideas. Touch them. Carry them with you for a bit. Let them settle. See what sticks. Sort it out. This is how we grow, how we change, how we continue to evolve.