Gwenna Laithland

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1,463 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Childproof · Into The School Year · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

Uh instead, we are encouraging that every student do 20 minutes of reading.

This is your homework.

This is not something that should be viewed as optional.

This is reinforcement of the stuff we want to teach them.

Most importantly, my kids don't have spelling words.

Now about half our listeners just clutched their pearls in absolute jealousy.

My kids don't have spelling words.

We we don't we we won't have any of them.

And the reason I was so torn is because they sent this whole big letter of this is why we're not doing this.

The research shows the rote repetition memorization doesn't actually seed anything.

It was a very tortured, long, drawn out way of them confessing, Hey, so you remember that time we stopped teaching phonics in school?

Because here

In Oklahoma, about two decades ago, they just decided to stop teaching phonics.

And I'm not gonna go into

It was not gonna go into the

Now we have a literacy crisis.

Oh no.

Anyway, my district is switching back to a curriculum that prioritizes not spelling words and rote memorization, but phonics.

And again, there's all sorts of debates about the pedagogy.

I had spelling words as a child, but my spelling words weren't about the spelling.

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