Marilyn Jager Adams

Welp, you can find her books on anything from Brooks Publishing to Amazon.com …so, guess you didn’t think to even do a google search, eh?

Dr. Adams is cited in most of the reading research papers of the last decade. Guess you didn’t think to do an ERIC search, either. Betcha your university even subscribes to most of the periodicals…

Time for a little library and reading time, girlfriend. Bring me some basic information or particular questions, and I’ll be happy to discuss them w/you. I’ll not, however, spoon feed you into becoming another teacher who doesn’t know much about current good practices in reading instruction.

Probably not the answer you wanted to hear…

Activities to conduct with other graduate students? What do you mean? (Though in the time taken to explain, you could be reading up on Marilyn Jager Adams…)

My, you are very sarcastic!

Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. I have read several of her articles and chapters. I have gained a wealth of information and she has provided me with a different perspective on early reading.

I have also read her book, Beginning to Read (cover to cover). I am appauled that someone would think that I am writing this to be spoon fed!

I just wanted to try a really neat activity with the class. I am think more along the lines of doing some comparisons between theorists or asking the class to do their own interpretation of what they see as critical in early reading.

I usually don’t make it to these websites and I just wanted a different perspective.

This is very disappointing. I expected some support.

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No, you sure didn’t make yourself clear. Lots of college students come here to get some quick notes to turn into class. If you are not that kind, applause, because many, many are.

Sorry to disappoint you; however, I still don’t really understand what you are trying to do. If you read the report from the National Reading Panel, there aren’t too many theories supported as good practice in early reading instruction. The references will give you all the good pieces of research for the theories presented. Adams sat on that panel, I believe. Catherine Snow, too.

In the end, we will probably discover that it is very sequential and much like math in that dimension.

… you left things utterly unclear in your first post — or, rather, you really did imply that you needed an assignment done. As the saying goes, “if ten people tell you you are drunk, you should go lie down” — or, if 100% of the people reading your post respond a certain way, think before you judge us all as unsupportive (especially if you read some of the other threads).

In my experience, the teachers who read up on this stuff and end up thinking that reading isn’t rocket science — that you don’t really need to know much about thelanguage, etc — are the ones who… don’t know anything about the language. So I’d be tempted to use that time to fill that void — like, asking them what consonants and vowels are… not what *the* consonants and vowels are, but what makes them vowels and consonants. I’m always surprised (and mildly appalled) at the number of teachers who don’t know stuff like this — and while that may be of lesser importance (it is just defining a label) it’s indicative of a general lack of basic knowledge.

Hey guys!

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say, please be kind to the newbies. We’ve been advertising the forums in various areas of our site (including the Reading Rockets home page), so more new posters and lurkers are dropping by. Let’s try and make them feel welcome.

I’m hard at work creating the FAQ, and I’ll be sure to add a section about college assignments. ;) In the meantime, though, please take a moment to give each other the benefit of the doubt.

Thanks!

Jessica

As someone who frequently reads these boards, I think you are being very rude to someone that is asking for help. You come across as arrogant. Why not be helpful and polite or ignore the post? By the way, moaning and groaning about the ignorance of teachers is not constructive. (Be tactful)

We’re wandering off topic here. If you feel that another poster’s remarks are out of line, you can contact me at [email protected], and I will take a look at the situation.

Let’s all work together to maintain the spirit of this community as a place where we can all come together to ask questions, solve problems, and have lively discussions about reading, a topic dear to all our hearts.

Thanks!

Jessica