61-Conflating Leveled Books with Predictable Texts and Thinking About Decodables with Tiffany Peltier and Wiley Blevins

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Conflating Leveled Books with Predictable Texts with Tiffany Peltier and Wiley Blevins
On X (Twitter), a storm of tweets began when Tiffany posted this, “Leveled readers are great for
building fluency. However, a SUBSET of leveled texts, known as PREDICTABLE texts ARE NOT great for building decoding skills and SHOULD NOT be used in kindergarten for teaching phonics.” Wiley responded, “We need to do a virtual roundtable discussion about this. There is so much research misinterpretation and misunderstanding happening now. It’s an important topic needing clarification.”
So here we are!!
Wiley Blevins Bio: http://www.wileyblevins.com/all_about_wiley/
Wiley’s New Book! “Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact:
How to Scaffold Whole-Group Instruction So All Students Can Access Grade-Level Content”
https://us.corwin.com/books/differentiating-phonics-283562

Tiffany Peltier Bio:
Tiffany Peltier is a Research Scientist in the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA. She
earned her PhD in Learning Science at the University of Oklahoma and her Masters in Reading
and Bachelors in Early Childhood Education from Texas A&M University.

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