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Deloris Fowler had seen educational reforms come and go. Then one of them surprised her. 
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The Victorian opposition has pledged funding for "decodable readers" which focus only on sounds. But kids prefer to read rich texts.
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The founder of the Story Dogs program says children have shown such dramatic improvements in reading that there should be a dog in every school — and it's even piqued the interest of masters students at Monash University.
Peter Mellow's insight:
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Reading aloud can help young children learn about new words and how to sound them. There’s great value too in providing opportunities for children to enjoy regular silent reading, which is sustained reading of materials they select for pleasure.
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Teacher preparation programs continue to ignore the sound science behind how people become readers.
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"The quality of homework assigned is so poor that simply getting kids to read replacing homework with self-selected reading was a more powerful alternative," said Professor Richard Allington. Via John Evans, Dean J. Fusto
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