A tribute to Richard (Dick) Schutz 1929 - 2021 by Faith Borkowsky

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A tribute to Richard (Dick) Schutz 1929 - 2021 by Faith Borkowsky

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Faith Borkowsky (High Five Literacy and Academic Coaching @FaithBorkowsky) gives a heartfelt, much-deserved, personal tribute to literacy researcher, Richard Schutz (known to many as 'Dick'):
Richard E. Schutz Walk for Community Solutions
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?re ... 3364634596

Faith describes the importance of Dick's understanding and work for the teaching of reading. Thanks to him, we have the BRI 'I see Sam' decodable reading books which are still used to this day.

Dick's simple phrase was: "Say the sounds, read the words".

We knew Dick in England, not just from his work in the US. Faith describes the huge impact Dick had on her teaching. Dick was a truly, special, clever and unusual man.

Dick made many great contributions regularly to conversations and debates via the UK Reading Reform Foundation message forum when the reading debate was building up in England - and, later, he contributed occasionally to our IFERI forum:

http://rrf.org.uk/messageforum/search.p ... id%5B%5D=1

search.php?keywords=dick+schutz&terms=a ... mit=Search
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Thank you to Faith for providing these memorial links - the bottom link includes a heartfelt biography which leaves no doubts about the calibre of Dick as a family man along with his contribution to the field of reading:


https://www.forevermissed.com/richardschutz/about

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schutz-882
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Re: A tribute to Richard (Dick) Schutz 1929 - 2021 by Faith Borkowsky

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I've cross-referenced this tribute to Dick with a thread on the 'General Forum' dedicated to some of the 'giants' in the field of reading instruction:


viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1172&start=10
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