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My colleague Yukie Toyama at UC Berkeley received the Shanahan Outstanding Dissertation Award of the ILA for her dissertation, “What Makes Reading Difficult? An Investigation of the Contribution of Passage, Task, and Reader Characteristics on Item Difficulty...'

Wow, I had forgotten all about this presentation in Australia. I think it was about 2010. There's a video of an oral version of this same talk (MUCH LONGER) at U of Wyoming site-- youtube.com/watch?v=l5BZze…. also 2010.

#pdpfest who is this David pearson anyway

Vicki Griffo, Catherine Miller, and Barrie Olson, and I were commissioned by the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) to create an essay on Argumentation across the Disciplines. Here is it.
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My blog about it at ldc.org/blog/posts/pea…
Enjoy!

Knowledge begets reading comprehension begets knowledge begets RC begets K...anon...a virtuous rather than a vicious cycle.

Good work by two long time colleagues twitter.com/melaniekoss/st…

Did first formal European thesis defense. UofOslo. Lizbeth Brevik--Reading Strategies in Norway. 13 hour affair. Loved it. Bravo. Lizbeth!

Proud to bring it to the field w/EF. Inspired by Jay Samuels, its 50 year span marks Jay's career. twitter.com/freddywrites/s…

@doctordea P. David Pearson Laurie Elish-Piper Douglas Fisher

Sure!!!

On my quote, 'Kids are who they are', here's a little history of its origins.
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Instead of Teaching to the Test, we should be Testing to the Teach(ing)!

Close reading is NOT literal comprehension. It's the systematic interrogation of the text to figure out what the text says,, means, and does

New eBook! See what Freddy has blogged about on topics such as text complexity, vocabulary & morphological awareness. bit.ly/1rnlZww

New eBook! Great, Free Stuff from TextProject: Resources for Knowledge, Vocabulary, and automaticity. textproject.org/library/resour…

We've updated and added four new topics! Take a look at what TextProject has to offer in key areas of literacy. #ccss textproject.org/professional-d…

New IRA white paper on the importance of leisure reading: reading.org/Libraries/posi…

Ran across this in a paper I wrote in 1998 about the role of motivation in learning 'Skill without will is no skill at all.' Still apt!

Been reading about formative assmt. Great stuff. Only we should call it formative teaching-the real point. Better yet, responsive teaching.

For some great information on reading issues, try the IRA Literacy Research Panel's blog site: reading.org/reading-today/…