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Podcast: The Structured Literacy Podcast
Episode: S6 E21 - Why Exposure is a Poor Substitute for Learning
Description: The word exposure gets thrown around a lot in schools, especially when a student is behind in phonics or spelling. In this episode, Jocelyn takes a hard look at that belief and explains why presence in a lesson is not the same as learning, particularly for skills that are biologically secondary, like reading and writing. This episode covers: • why exposure is not learning for secondary skills• what explicit teaching demands of attention and practice• how misuse of the term exposure clouds decisions• where whole-class text work fits and when it does not• why working memo...