Earlier this week, Eduflack recommended anyone with an interest in reading instruction should check out the www.ednews.org interview with Reid Lyon.  In recent days, the links back to that interview have grown and grown.  While I’d like to think it is my influencer, I know it is simply the value of the information Reid provides.  It doesn’t hurt that these are Reid’s first read comments on RF since leaving NICHD nearly three years ago.

Yes, the interview is an interesting one.  But if you checked it out at the start of the week, you’ve missed out on the comments that are now attached to the piece.  Those of us who write on the internet expect comments to be a sentence or two, either bouquets or brickbats.  Those who have read Reid’s interview have provided some interesting in-depth opinion.  Real thoughts from real practitioners and real researchers.  How novel!

Check it out — http://ednews.org/articles/25335/1/Interview-with-Reid-Lyon-Reading-First-is-the-largest-concerted-reading-intervention-program-in-the-history-of-the-civilized-world/Page1.html.

It doesn’t matter if your are and SBRR disciple or you’ve drunk the whole language kool-aid.  It’s worth a read.