October 2022 – Reading Matters
2 posts published by Mark Seidenberg during October 2022| Reading Matters
2 posts published by Mark Seidenberg during October 2022| Reading Matters
An index of published articles by Mark Seidenberg and/or Maryellen MacDonald, with links to PDFs. Still updating but mostly complete. Here. Articles I recommend as interesting but not too technical: Lewis et al., What might books be teaching children about gender? [Answer: pink and blue stereotypes] Washington & Seidenberg article in American Educator about teaching … Continue reading "Publications archive now!"| Reading Matters
Maryellen MacDonald and I wrote this letter in response to the article by Helen Lewis about Lucy Calkins in the December 2024 issue of the Atlantic. This post can be downloaded as a PDF here. The December 2024 article does a good job of characterizing Lucy Calkins’ complex legacy, but she is not the “scapegoat” … Continue reading "The Calkins Legacy"| Reading Matters
In light of the Dec 2024 article in the Atlantic about Lucy Calkins, I am reposting this piece of mine from a few years ago. Calkins is not the “scapegoat” for America’s failure to adequately teach reading. As the author of a popular but deeply flawed curriculum and a “thought leader” who cultivated a large, … Continue reading "Calkins Redux"| Reading Matters
AI tools that do remarkable things are appearing so often it’s impossible to keep up. I have just tried the innocuously named NotebookLM from Google and think you’ll be interested in the results. In June I posted an article (pdf) called “Where does the science of reading go from here?” I uploaded it to NotebookLM, … Continue reading "AI wants to help"| Reading Matters
There has been an extensive discussion of phonemic awareness instruction on the SPELLtalk list. It seems to have ended with a lot of uncertainty about the implications of my observations about PA for instruction, so let me try to boil it down. I’ll be pursuing these issues in greater detail here in the near future. … Continue reading "The phonemic awareness discussion"| Reading Matters
I see that there are >100 responses to my last post, which will take me a little time to go through. The exchange is also continuing on the SPELLtalk list. I won’t have time to copy all of that over to this site, I’m afraid.| Reading Matters
This post is part of an exchange about phonemic awareness that originated on the SPELLtalk listserve. It’s awkward having it in two places, but the posts may be hard to find on SPELLtalk. Here I’m responding to a reply from the original poster, Dr. Herron. Her post is here. I don’t know if we agree … Continue reading "More on teaching phonemes"| Reading Matters
This post is a response to a recent post on the SPELLtalk discussion from Dr. Jeannine Herron, a reading specialist active in reading education. The original post is in the SPELLtalk archive here, for people who have access. For those who don’t, I’ve reproduced it here. Dear Jeannine, I read your post about phonemic awareness … Continue reading "On the phonemes in “phonemic awareness”"| Reading Matters
I gave a talk called “Where does the Science of Reading go from here?” at the Structured Linguistic Literacy summit on June 24. The slides from that talk are here. I have written a new article on this topic, available here. It goes into more detail and a wider range of topics. The Seidenberg & MacDonald article about … Continue reading "Where does the Science of Reading go from here?"| Reading Matters
The talk I gave at the Yale Child Study Center on 12/4/23 was not recorded. I recorded a version with a voiceover on 12/23. It is the same talk, with some additional information. The updated slides are here. The video of the talk itself is here. The links work on the blog post.| Reading Matters
I have a short piece about the Science of Reading in Edweek, here. Mae West has entered the conversation. The column is the result of cutting a longer piece to satisfy the publication’s very strict 1000 word limit. Now that it is published I can post a longer version that is less telegraphic. NB: I did … Continue reading "Why is there so much instruction in the “science of reading”?"| Reading Matters
The slides from a recent talk at the Yale Child Study Center. It wasn’t recorded; perhaps I’ll do a voiceover if there’s interest. Available here.| Reading Matters
This is the third (and thankfully the last) of my posts on the Simple View of Reading and its relevance to instruction. So far I’ve pointed out that the SVR didn’t address what was in the components, how they are learned, or the role of instruction, and that attempts to extend the SVR run into … Continue reading "Decoding “The Simple View of Reading” III"| Reading Matters
This is the second of three posts examining the Simple View of Reading, one of the pillars of the “science of reading” (SoR) approach to reading instruction. In the previous post I noted that the SVR makes an important point–that reading involves the child learning how print represents words in the spoken language they already … Continue reading "Decoding “The Simple View of Reading” II"| Reading Matters
This is one in a series of intermittent posts about issues that arise in trying to use research in cognitive science and neuroscience about reading, language, learning, development and related topics to improve literacy outcomes. This “post” is more like an article, with footnotes and references. I’m going to post it in three bite-sized pieces, … Continue reading "Decoding “The Simple View of Reading”"| Reading Matters
Here are the slides from a few recent talks about the challenges facing the “science of reading,” and related topics. I’ve also included links to the talks that are available, and links to websites for the events. Montag Lecture, Atlanta, March 2022, “Efficacy, Efficiency, and Equity: The Goals of Early Reading Instruction”. Slides. Video. Path … Continue reading "Recent talks"| Reading Matters
Here’s a link to the recording of a symposium that I highly recommend. The speakers were Kymyona Burk, Emily Hanford, Donna Hejtmanek, and me. It was organized by a center here at UW-Madison because the state legislature seems to be getting serious about legislation related to reading. Heretofore there hasn’t been any forward movement here … Continue reading "Best symposium ever?"| Reading Matters
Lucy Calkins and her team have published the much-anticipated revisions to her popular K-2 reading curriculum. An EdWeek article asks, are the changes to the materials sufficient? A better question…| Reading Matters
Connecting Science and Education| Reading Matters
Concerns about literacy levels in the US and distractions of other technologies are not new. Here’s an amusing illustration: In the late 1950s, Mike Wallace, the late television journalis…| Reading Matters
I was recently in a group zoom meeting (a groom? a zoup?) with some educators who meet to expand their knowledge of reading research. A guest speaker gave a rambling talk about “science of reading”…| Reading Matters
