Language & Literacy A Writing Life

Language & Literacy

2023–2025 · essays

24 pieces

• 2011Public Schools as Ecosystems: Part II
• 2020The Riches of Speech-Language Pathology
• 2021Whole to Part to Whole
• 2021Phonology: How it Relates to Language and Literacy
• 2021I think I was wrong about Phonemic Awareness
• 2021Our Brains Were Not Born to Read…Right?
• 2021The Science of Reading Across Languages
• 2022An Interlude: What do we mean when we say learning something is unnatural?
• 2022A Finale: Learning to Read and Write is a Remarkable Human Feat
• 2022Advancing Literacy for Black boys
• 2022It Takes More Than a Team
• 2022How you interpret “the science of reading” depends on how you think of “science”: Part II
• 2022What is the problem with “sight words”?
• 2023Why assessing bilingual children in two languages is just a start
• 2023Phonics is just 30 minutes a day. C’mon!
• 2023A High Quality ELA Block
• 2023Language—like reading—may not be innate
• 2023Speaking Ourselves into Being and Others into Silence: The Power of Language
• 2023Research Highlight 2: The Language Teachers Use Influences the Language Students Learn
• 2024Language, Cognition, and LLMs
• 2024The Algebra of Language: Unveiling the Statistical Tapestry of Form and Meaning
• 2024Scaling Our Capacity for Processing Information
• 2024LLMs, Statistical Learning, and Explicit Teaching
• 2025More Productive Than an Hour of Instruction?