It has been a long time since I posted, but I seem to be posting a lot more of this type of info straight on my facebook page and in my group. However, this post has been bubbling away all holidays and I just needed to get it down on paper so to speak. Last year I wrote a blog post about structured literacy around the problems that I could see then with its implementation. After another year of immense learning I'd like to reflect on some of the things that I still consider to be a problem with structured literacy and its implementation. So what remains the problem or opportunity with structured literacy? 1. I think the number one problem with the implementation of structured literacy remains the fact that structured literacy has come to mean for many people, just phonics. Teacher development in many schools is yet to go beyond that and so approaches in classrooms continue to simply scratch the surface. Structured literacy is not just phonics....
I am passionate about play and structured explicit learning, finding the best of both worlds.