Jessica Warner
@VDVReading
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Reading Specialist & Coach ~ Somerville School District~Dyslexia Practitioner ~Wilson 1 Certified~Associate Level OGA~Firm Believer in #SoR~ Tweets are my own.
Somerville, NJ
Joined December 2011
Tell school board members to make sure the materials they adopt have proof of working, before they adopt them. Normalize that.
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I swear to you. No teacher is holding back their "super-secret" teacher secrets to keep kids from reading. Training, materials, and leadership have to improve. When you know how to teach a kid to read, you'll change schools before you hide it under a bushel.
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A teacher's love for students is insufficient. Our love must be welded with high expectations and effective teaching grounded in the science of learning.
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What do I do when I’m not in the classroom? 🤣🤣 More #structuredliteracy This client nailed it! What grade? Kinder!!!!!
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Teaching writing is hard. Most teacher preparation programs do a poor job of equipping teachers to teach writing to novice writers, just as they have struggled to prepare teachers to teach reading. The hard truth is that while we have begun to address the reading instructional
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@natwexler reminds us in her latest Substack that real progress comes when teachers have both cognitive science and high-quality instructional materials grounded in that science. Strong science + strong curriculum = stronger learning. #KnowledgeMatters #CurriculumMatters
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The hustle is so real.
Always pay attention. The Reading Recovery Council of North America is changing its name to the “Literacy Council of North America.” Don’t be fooled. It’s still made up of the same players.
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This is a must-see presentation from Dr Hodges at The Black Literacy Matters conference:
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Some reasons why writing is superior to typing: -Handwriting is a form of neurocognitive training. You’re not only practising a motor skill. You’re shaping the brain networks that integrate vision, movement, and language which is closely tied to learning and memory. -When
Make the Connection When you really want something to “stick��, there are good neuropsychological arguments for putting a pen – or a stylus – in students’ hands. https://t.co/ysvEXR8yBP
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