I sit down to write this blog post right in the middle of the holidays. I have been weighing up the benefits of making this one post, or maybe taking each area and posting about each one separately. While there are probably benefits to you, the poor person trying to wade through what I already know will be a mammoth post, my brain just needs to combine all of the things I have experimented with and worked on this term. Not only that, I think a post like this shows clearly how many aspects there may be to what I like to call Science Informed Literacy (hopefully that is not a phrase that has been coined so far.). When I say Science Informed Literacy I do so for two reasons, one being that Structured literacy is a term 'owned' by the IDA and the term 'Science of Reading' implies to me that this is all about reading. If I am to be honest, I am also really sick and tired hearing the terms being used incorrectly. Hence, the term Science In...
I am passionate about play and structured explicit learning, finding the best of both worlds.