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Washburn, Erin K.; Mulcahy, Candace A. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2014
For many striving readers in the early grades (Grades K-3), difficulty learning to read manifests at the word level. As a result, such readers are likely to need explicit instruction in the structure of the English language, also referred to as "basic language concepts" (i.e., concepts and skills related to phonology, phonics,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Educators, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, English Instruction
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Binks-Cantrell, Emily; Washburn, Erin K.; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Hougen, Martha – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
The Peter Effect (Applegate & Applegate, 2004) claimed that one cannot be expected to give what one does not possess. We applied this notion to reading teacher preparation and hypothesized that teacher educators who do not possess an understanding of basic language constructs would not prepare teacher candidates with an understanding of these…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Educators