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The Decodable Debate: What No One’s Telling You-(128)

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🚨 Real Talk: Decodables Are Everywhere—But Are We Using Them Right?

Districts are buying them. Teachers are assigning them. Publishers are hyping them. But beneath the buzz, the real question is: Are decodables making a difference—or are we just following a script?

In this episode, we go beyond the phonics fanfare to ask the hard questions:

• Are we over-relying on decodables at the expense of comprehension?
• What makes a decodable text actually effective?
• Are we seeing real gains—or just following mandates?
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🔥 Inside This Episode:

• What the research actually says about decodables
• Common misuse in classrooms—and how to course-correct
• The myth of “just give them decodables and they’ll learn to read”
• How to balance decoding with real engagement and language development
• Classroom-tested advice for making decodables work with your instruction not instead of it

👀 Why It Matters:

Too many classrooms are being told decodables are the magic bullet. But without planning, intention, and skilled instruction, they can turn into robotic routines with little payoff. This episode unpacks the nuance—and gives educators permission to ask for more.

💬 Quote Worth Repeating:

“A decodable text isn’t a lesson plan. It’s a tool—and only as good as the hands that use it.”

👩‍🏫 For Educators Who Are:

• Feeling pressure to use decodables but unsure how
• Balancing district mandates with what students actually need
• Ready to cut through the noise and focus on what work.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

📚 DK Phonic Books (Phonic Books Ltd)

https://www.phonicbooks.com/

👩‍🏫 Sue Marasciulo – Decodable Graphic Novels

https://www.suemarasciulo.com/

🌵 Tumbleweed Publishing – Decodable Texts for Upper Elementary

https://tumbleweedpublishing.com/

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Episode-127
You asked, we listened!💥

Dr. Coral Hoh is Back‼️

🚀 Want to explore Dysolve or bring this convo to your school or district?
Contact us at faithandjudy@gmail.com — we’re ready when you are.

🧠 Want to understand what Dysolve is before Tuesday’s episode drops?
Here are three must-read (and watch) links Dr. Coral Hoh recommends to help you explore how AI is transforming dyslexia !

🔗 1. Psychology Today – “Educators Need to Know How AI Can Help Kids With Dyslexia”
📌 A clear, educator-focused overview of how AI tools like Dysolve support struggling readers. Emphasizes that AI should enhance—not replace structured literacy instruction.
📖 Read about it here-https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unlocking-language/202503/educators-need-to-know-how-ai-can-help-kids-with-dyslexia

🔗 2. Forbes – “Dysolve: Tackling the Dyslexia Crisis & Pandemic Learning Loss with AI”
📌 A deeper look at how Dysolve addresses both dyslexia and learning loss post-COVID. Features use cases, research, and insight into the AI model’s design. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rayravaglia/2025/05/21/dysolve-tackling-the-dyslexia-crisis--pandemic-learning-loss-with-

🔗 3. NBC News – “AI Revolution: Helping Children with Dyslexia”
📺 A quick, powerful news segment showing how Dysolve works with real students and schools.
🎥 Watch it here-https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/a-i-revolution-how-artificial-intelligence-is-helping-children-with-dyslexia-227631173993

Clinical Trial:https://www.cresp.udel.edu/research-project/dysolve-randomized-field-trial/

Bio: 🔗 Coral PS Hoh, Ph.D. – Clinical Linguist & Dysolve AI Architect (Psychology Today)

Episode has been sponsored by Dysolve.

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BREAKING News: A revolutionary breakthrough in dyslexia intervention is HERE!/Dysolve-Created By Dr. Coral Hoh

It’s bold. It’s brain-based. It’s changing lives.
And it’s available for schools, districts—and individual families.

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🎙️ The Literacy View – 125: Takeaway Tuesday LIVE! (Recap of 122)

Hosts: Faith Borkowsky & Judy Boksner
Guests: Viewers + Live Q&A with Trina Spencer & Doug Petersen
📺 Watch the Replay: YouTube Link:https://youtu.be/fl8goSw6THE?si=Cwt5fIEiJxHPlet7

💡 What’s Inside:
This Takeaway Tuesday episode revisits key ideas from Episode 122, where we tackled the false debate between strategy instruction and knowledge building. Listeners joined us live to share their biggest takeaways—and then we turned it over to two literacy legends:
Dr. Trina Spencer – https://absc.ku.edu/Trina-Spencer
Dr. Doug Petersen – https://www.childlanguagespecialist.org/welcome-douglas-bryan-petersen/
Together, we dug into:
Why BOTH strategy & knowledge matter
Real classroom applications (beyond theory)
The harm of sticking to one “camp”
How oral language and writing fit into the big picture
🔥 Soundbites:
“It’s not about picking sides—it’s about serving kids.”
— Dr. Trina Spencer
“Ignoring either side of literacy is a disservice to teachers and students.”
— Faith Borkowsky

🛠️ Practical Takeaways for Educators

✔️ Start with oral language routines early and often
✔️ Build knowledge sets across texts—stop treating reading as isolated events
✔️ Make vocabulary instruction explicit and connected
✔️ Replace “skill & drill” with discourse, writing, and reflection

✔️ Decodables are essential for building early reading skills—but students also need rich texts that grow vocabulary, knowledge, and comprehension.

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BREAKING News: A revolutionary breakthrough in dyslexia intervention is HERE!/Dysolve-Created By Dr. Coral Hoh

It’s bold. It’s brain-based. It’s changing lives.
And it’s available for schools, districts—and individual families.

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BREAKING News: A revolutionary breakthrough in dyslexia intervention is HERE!/Dysolve-Created By Dr. Coral Hoh

It’s bold. It’s brain-based. It’s changing lives.
And it’s available for schools, districts—and individual families.

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The One About…

What’s Trending? AI and Dyslexia with Dr. Coral Hoh

The future of AI in education looks more inclusive, accessible, and transformative than ever!

Bio:

Coral PS Hoh, PhD, is the architect of Dysolve® AI, the first autonomous AI system for dyslexia, a neurological disorder. She holds AI patents for the treatment of language-related disorders. She referees and writes for academic journals and for her column at Psychology Today.

Article:

Transforming Dyslexia Education: Dr. Coral Hoh on Dysolve:

Dysolve: Using AI To Beat Dyslexia Through Generative Games

Ray Ravaglia

Forbes, Mar 2, 2024

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rayravaglia/2024/03/02/dysolve-using-ai-to-beat-dyslexia-through-generative-games/

More Dysolve Updates:

• Psychology Today blog - explains how AI can address dyslexia
• NBC Nightly News

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• Clinical trial

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This episode might challenge everything you once believed!

In this evidence-grounded episode, we kick off with Jill Barshay’s March 2025 Hechinger Report deep-dive—“Proof Points: Reading Comprehension in the Classroom” (read it here)—which shows teachers spend under 25 percent of their reading block on genuine comprehension work and almost zero time on text-based talk.

Doug Petersen and Trina Spencer—classroom teachers turned education scientists and founders of Language Dynamics Group—use those “proof points” as a launchpad to share why they walked away from one-size-fits-none interventions and built something better:

❤️ Their evidence-first origin: witnessing multilingual and economically diverse learners get lost in decoding drills led them to found tools (CUBED, PEARL, DYMOND, Story Champs®) rooted in solid research evidence—and designed to be Implementation Ready, not extra paperwork.

🧠 Research you can see: unpacking Scarborough’s Reading Rope alongside Beck & McKeown’s vocabulary studies, they demonstrate how just minutes of data-backed, teacher-led discussions unlock deeper thinking, richer text connections, and measurable comprehension gains.

If you’ve ever stared at comprehension questions and wondered why they flop—or if you’re craving talk strategies backed by hard evidence that actually fit into a busy teaching day—this episode is your MVP playbook. Tune in and let language—and real, research-driven evidence—lead the way! ❤️❤️❤️

Link to bios-Trina Spencer: https://absc.ku.edu/Trina-Spencer#:~:text=Spencer%20is%20a%20senior%20scientist,and%20Departmentj%20of%20Special%20Education.

Bio Doug Petersen:

https://www.childlanguagespecialist.org/welcome-douglas-bryan-petersen/

You Tube Channel:https://youtube.com/@languagedynamics?si=h5sakwCjx1r_UYoF

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Guest Bio:

Claude Goldenberg is Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Education, emeritus, in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. A native of Argentina, his areas of research and professional interest have centered on promoting academic achievement among language minority children and youth. Prior to his arrival at Stanford, Goldenberg was Professor of Teacher Education, Associate Dean of the College of Education, and Executive Director of the Center for Language Minority Education and Research (CLMER) at California State University, Long Beach.

Claude Goldenberg’s thoughts on the article discussed-“It's propaganda masking as research.”

Article Discussed-https://californianstogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/24-Voices-from-the-Field-FINAL-print.pdf

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