love this. thank you for making this podcast.

Eye opening! I am a child development major with a passion for early literacy. LISTEN to the TRUTH!

I still want more to listen to. This story will keep growing and changing lives.

This explains so much. A must listen for all parents of all levels and every background.

The background music was torture. I was so relieved when it stopped!

Good God this podcast has some points to make, but its clearly doing a hard sell. Exhausting and mostly anecdotal. Seems to be making the same mistakes as what it is critiquing https://radicalscholarship.com/2022/11/05/sold-a-story-continues-science-of-reading-misinformation-campaign-a-reader/

I just wish I was not so annoyed by the delivery of this information. Like I’m in a sales presentation. Sigh.

🥺 I was a natural reader and this is breaking my heart!!!

Oh so glad the public schools and culture at large can bless traditional phonics by subsuming it into Progressivism. If the war was won by tradition credit is due to those who fought for their kids on that side all along.

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I like it so much

I learned to read by ”See Jane run” it worked really good for me..it was easy after that.

The disturbing part about this is that the people selling this çrap - were all taught how to read by phonics. This podcast is really great, i think everyone regardless of profession or parental status should listen to it.

Grifters.

Agree

Hi Emily and crew, I have just finished listening to the last episode of Sold a story. It has been very enlightening and I do look forward to hearing bonus updates. I teach Junior Primary children in year 2, South Australia, Australia. The Science of reading research has over the last few years been part of our training and development. Synthetic Phonics has been and continues to be a very important component of teaching children to read.

This podcast explains so much that I’ve noticed, wondered, or hadn’t realized. Must listen for anyone in early education!

Thank you for creating this series. My kids were lucky enough to learn to read without much difficulty but I’ve seen the effects of teaching ”cueing” as opposed to ”reading” first hand. As a reading tutor I saw first hand how kids would not really read the word but just fill in the word that made sense. At the time, I had no idea they were doing exactly what they’d been taught. As a former teacher, I understand the heartbreak and frustration of educators who only want the best for their students

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This is the story every American needs to hear. The misinformation, the politics, the capitalism, the idolatry. Our collective disbelief about how humans learn to read has taken us so far off-course and caused damage. As a current Reading Specialist, I see the effects of this everywhere, even in a Master’s degree program I took in 2019, where Marie Clay was being celebrated and whose ideas were being touted.

Thank you for creating this podcast and spreading the word about what is being taught, or should I say not being taught, in schools. I’m afraid for my youngest kiddos who will be starting kindergarten over the next 2 years. I’m a teacher and will make sure that they actually learn how to read.