{"id":13158,"date":"2025-08-21T14:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningally.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=13158"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:09:51","slug":"moving-past-the-reading-wars-peaceniks-lead-the-way","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/learningally.org\/event\/moving-past-the-reading-wars-peaceniks-lead-the-way","title":{"rendered":"Moving Past the Reading Wars: Peaceniks Lead the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this edLeader Panel, you hear from a group of researchers and practitioners who have dubbed themselves the \u201cReading Peaceniks\u201d after meeting for two years and searching for ways to end the divisiveness of the reading wars. The goal of the Peaceniks is to bring together a broad spectrum across disciplines within literacy education to realize that there is more in common than there are differences. There are meaningful ways to present essential direct instruction that provide children with oral language development and the alphabetic coding that research has shown they need to develop into joyful readers and writers.<\/p>\n

With the recent paper\u00a0Print-to-Speech and Speech-to-Print: Mapping Early Literacy<\/em><\/a>, published by Reading Rockets, the panelists, who are authors and contributing editors of the paper, have chosen to address essential components of instructional approaches at their earliest roots\u2014PreK to Grade 1 or 2. In this paper, they found consensus with 35 renowned literacy thought leaders and researchers after much discussion and editing. It suggests \u201cgood practices\u201d for early literacy that they hope will address that yearning for meaningfulness on both sides. Watch this edLeader Panel to:<\/p>\n