Episode 10: Reviewing a Decade of Early Literacy Research with Drs. Emily Brown Hoffman and Colleen Whittingham
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There’s a lot research out there, and more continues to be published every day. Each quality study on reading has it’s importance- but what are the trends in the field of research?
That’s exactly of what my guests in this episode set out to do. Drs. Emily Brown Hoffman and Colleen Whittingham sifted through nearly 6,500 journal articles to understand the trends in early literacy research between the years of 2005 and 2015.
The three of us cover a lot of ground in this one- phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and comprehension as well as broader topics such as technology integration and diverse student populations.
There’s plenty of takeaways in this episode- from thinking about how literacy research connects to practice to how to improve practice in your classroom.
References:
Hoffman, E. B., Whittingham, C. E., & Teale, W. H. (2018). A Decade of Early Literacy Research: Who Did What, Where, and to What End?. The Reading Teacher, 72(3), 283-288.
Teale, W. H., Whittingham, C. E., & Hoffman, E. B. (2018). Early literacy research, 2006–2015: A decade of measured progress. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798418754939