Kerrilyn Thacker
@KerrilynT
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Teacher and Speech-Language Pathologist. Passionate about Evidence-based Instruction and Language Learners
Joined February 2012
Second Disciplinary Literacy Symposium- inspired listening to @GailBathU1 and colleagues discuss their whole-school approach to disciplinary literacy.
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Attending the Second Disciplinary Literacy Symposium online. Got a preview of the work being done by LLEN - including the incredible Bev Derewianka and Pauline Jones- just to name 2 -cannot wait for the network to be formally launched in July!
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What an amazing episode @TanKHuynh and @RuslanaWesterl ! I thoroughly enjoyed being guided through how to use SFL in the classroom.
Dr. Ruslana Westerlund shares how we can apprentice MLs to writing. She turns principles into classroom-ready practice! https://t.co/P1u2agMzIO
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Wondering if there is any educational research for the benefits of mixed-proficiency language classes vs proficiency-based language classes, specifically, language classes for languages other than the language of instruction. @4bilingualism @sstewartling @easkelton @BettneyEsther
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What an amazing webinar hosted by @elsuccessforum about the role of writing in literacy instruction. Lucky to hear 3 leaders in the field present writing instruction through a SFL lens. Thank you Professor Emerita Maria Estela Brisk, @RuslanaWesterl and Dr Luciana C. de Oliveira
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I love the variety of ways that information is communicated in @TanKHuynh and @easkelton's book Long-term Success for Experienced Multilinguals: sketch notes, tables, mindmaps, extended written discourse, and worked examples (just to name a few) @CorwinPress
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ALL 2023 #MLSummit recordings and resources have been uploaded to the website! 🥳 You can watch them all right here: https://t.co/YNf4suMxyO Thanks again to everyone who made this year's summit possible!
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Learning from the always amazing @easkelton and @TanKHuynh about shifting to an assets-based approach to experienced multilingual students- strategies to support vocabulary, sentence structures, and organisation in writing at the #MLSummit
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The incredibly generous @irina_mcgrath and @michelleshory sharing tech tools that support language and literacy skills in multilingual learners at #MLSummit
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Learning about enhancing literacy instruction for Multilingual Learners at #MLSummit from @Jechev and @KatieToppel
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A wonderful PD experience at the #MLSummit learning from @ValentinaESL and @NataliaESL about the value of sentence-level writing.
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I have just registered for this exciting book study!
NEW BOOK STUDY! IN PURSUIT OF A MULTILINGUAL EQUITY AGENDA In this book study, participants will dig in and study the book In Pursuit of a Multilingual Equity Agenda by Meg Gebhard and Kathryn Accurso, two of the leading scholars in SFL Register here: https://t.co/x9hBArOB71
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Another great #DisciplinaryLiteracyNetwork session with @KimStieberWhite. This time with a focus on text sets. Such great resources to try out!
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Another great #DisciplinaryLiteracyNetwork session with @RuslanaWesterl and @KimStieberWhite. This time with a focus on identifying salient language features in texts, the language of science, and issues with simplifying texts for MLLs @cesa2wi
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Thanks to a book exchange, in the spirit of the Icelandic Jólabókaflóðið tradition, within the Language Departments, I am now the proud owner of this gorgeous wordless picture book by a Flemish author/illustrator #PetervandenEnde #Zwerveling @Querido_nl
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What an excellent resource! Thanks for sharing.
ChatGPT has been on my mind lately. English teachers, are we ready to use this in the classroom? Here is a list of ideas that might work to improve learning. The document is editable for all...Let's work together and learn how to use this technology! https://t.co/7lm539mkGr
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Making language visible in Social Studies explanations and argumentations. Second #disciplinaryliteracy Network meeting with @KimStieberWhite and @RuslanaWesterl @cesa2wi
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An incredible resource for #disciplinaryliteracy from @UMich shared during our second Disciplinary Literacy Network meeting with @RuslanaWesterl and @KimStieberWhite So many free materials to support inquiry and argumentation in Social Studies!
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