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When should we stop reading aloud to students? Can we say NEVER? Keep reading aloud, in every grade, in every subject! 📚📖
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Anita Archer: How do you help older students who are struggling to read?
#1
: Build students’ decoding skills to read multisyllabic words
#TRLConf2022
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Decodable texts...
📚 allow students to practice decoding skills instead of relying on pictures & guessing.
📚give students a place to apply knowledge of sound-spelling patterns.
📚are an important step in a student's journey to becoming a fluent, independent reader.
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We have to keep sharing what the “Science of Reading” is. It’s not a pendulum swing. It’s not a fad. 📚
Episode 113: Reading is Rocket Science with Louisa Moats 🎧
Have you listened yet?
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💙 "Sentence-level work is the engine that will propel your students from writing the way they speak to using the structures of written language."
@TheWritingRevol
🎧 Have you listened to Episode 117 yet? What are your thoughts on the power of sentence-level work?
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The One Book You Need to Teach Writing 📝📝📝
✔ Boosting reading comprehension
✔ Enhancing speaking and writing abilities
✔ Improving organizational and study skills
@natwexler
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4 years ago, we published our 1st episode! & 17 people listened in the 1st month… probably just our friends & family! Nearly 150 episodes later, & thankfully thousands of our teacher friends are listening & learning with us every day! Thank you all for your support! 💙
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Let’s talk about Trauma and Reading. What happens when kids aren't taught how to read? “Going to school day after day, week after week, for years while being unable to read or read well is frequent and repetitive trauma for the student.” -Steve Dykstra, psychologist
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Two reading models are well known in the reading community: The Simple View and Scarborough's Rope. We want to add another model to this mix, one that includes so many other parts of reading: The Active View of Reading. What do you notice & wonder about The Active View of Rdg?🤓
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“If handwriting & spelling are not fluent by 4th grade, students will struggle with the other strands in the rope. These (
#handwriting
&
#spelling
) are best taught during foundational skills lessons.”
Joan Sedita, The Writing Rope
💙
#TRLConf2022
#writing
#knowledge
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✍🏼What about WRITING?!? The Writing Revolution is a FANTASTIC resource for all contents and all grade levels!
🎧Check out our book talk (available now!) and get ready for our discussion with the authors: Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler (coming Friday!)
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Have you heard this myth? Tomorrow's guest, the fabulous Sonia Cabell, tells us all about research that shows the importance of oral language and knowledge for reading comprehension!
Get your podcast apps ready to listen! 🎧
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Have you read this article by Natalie Wexler? Elementary Classrooms Are Too Noisy For Kids To Learn
Agree? Disagree? Definitely some food for thought! 💙
Link to article:
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This
#scienceofreading
journey is a long one, with lots of questions, information gathering, & mixed feelings: guilt, frustration, confusion, sadness, joyfulness, shame, disbelief, anger... the list goes on.
#Teachers
were
#soldastory
in undergrad & grad schools & on the job.
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Deep content knowledge allows students to have something to write about, while explicitly teaching skills starting at the sentence level makes it accessible for all writers.
#scienceofreading
#highqualitycurriculum
#reading
#literacy
#writing
#spelling
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"Leveled text leads to leveled lives." The SoR IS ROOTED IN explicit phonics, phonological awareness and fluency, vocabulary, and the development of background knowledge, which aids in comprehension. SoR DOES NOT support guided reading.
#scienceofreading
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Are we all up early listening to
@ehanford
? Fascinating to hear how Reading Recovery became so popular… and the problems with it! Will be listening more than once 😀
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Reading comprehension is dependent on so much. It's complicated! While we use skills to comprehend, comprehension is NOT a skill. It depends on knowledge, vocabulary, and so much more.
#KnowledgeMatters
#knowledgeispower
#Mythbusters
#Reading
#teachersoftwitter
#TEACHers
#Vocab
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Are you dyyying to discuss Sold a Story Podcast?! Let’s come together virtually to do what we do best: listen and learn together! 11.18.22 at 5pm EST. Discussion led by Melissa & Lori. Sign up: (space limited)
#scienceofreading
@ehanford
@right2readproj
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Executive Function refers to a set of neurocognitive processes that we use for self-control or self-regulation. Ex: metacognition, working memory, attention, management tools.
@ReadingShanahan
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🎉NEW EPISODE! 🎉 Holly Lane, author of UFLI Foundations, kicks off our Back to School Series. Holly shares what to look for when programs claim to be aligned to the Science of Reading.
🎧 Listen:
📺Watch:
#scienceofreading
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🎧🎉 Our 100th EPISODE is out today! And we could not have asked for a more powerful guest who gets to the heart 💙 of why teaching children to read is SO important! Thank you all for listening!
#SoR
#scienceofreading
#structuredliteracy
#reading
#literacyandjusticeforall
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This quote FLOORED us when we heard Lacey say this on the podcast, Sold a Story. We could not agree more. How can we expect students to LOVE to read if they can't do it! Nobody loves something they can't do!
Hear more from Lacey in our new episode coming tomorrow!
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Summer day-dreaming about how to improve your writing instruction next year? 🖊️
This Friday, we talk with Lyn Stone about vocabulary, morphology, grammar, and writing. She makes soooo many connections to The Writing Revolution! Sentence level work is critical!
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What is phonemic awareness?
📣Phonemic awareness is a critical early literacy skill that helps kids recognize and work with the sounds of spoken language.📣
What are some ways to demonstrate phonemic awareness?
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📣📣📣 Writing improves reading comprehension! 📣📣📣
👏 Say 👏 It 👏 Louder! 👏
Hear how writing helps reading comprehension in Ep. 201. ✍️📚
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Listening to Louisa Moats talk about the English language. Great way to start the day 💙
#TRLConf2023
#scienceofreading
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Picture a 7 year old student doing independent work for 40 minutes, then working in a small group with the teacher, then back to doing independent work for another 15 minutes. How can we expect students to direct their own learning for so much time independently?
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🎉 We are thrilled to start off the new year sharing an important conversation with two phenomenal guests about the importance of Knowledge Building Curricula.
🎧 Listen here: or
.
@DTWillingham
.
@ClassroomWonder
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Difficulty understanding the SENTENCE can be a major obstacle to comprehension. It may be because Ss are unfamiliar with the complex syntax of written sentences. What can we do? Teach Sentence Combining and Sentence Reduction.
@natwexler
#teacher
#writing
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☀️NEW EPISODE! ☀️ JAN HASBROUCK! If you've had questions about fluency instruction... this is the one to listen to!
Jan kicks off our series about the Science of Reading beyond phonics!
🎧 Listen:
📺Watch:
#scienceofreading
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🚨 NEW EPISODE! It's here!!!! You all know how much we love .
@natwexler
, but .
@JudithCHochman
is just a legend, and we were honored to talk to both of these ladies about their incredible book: The Writing Revolution.
🎧
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Let's kick off our SUMMER LEARNING SERIES: Science of Reading for ALL Students! We talk with a district & teacher leader about a structured literacy program they created for older students struggling with reading!
🎧
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There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Why are materials for teaching reading based on this debunked theory so popular?
4 people.
#soldastory
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What's a base? Every. Single. Word. 🔤
Tomorrow's episode with Lyn Stone drops. If you've had questions about teaching morphology, etymology, vocabulary, grammar, writing... this one's for YOU! ✔️
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Can you believe it!? 🤯 WE WROTE A BOOK! 📘
The Literacy 50–A Q&A Handbook for Teachers: Real-World Answers to Questions About Reading That Keep You Up at Night
Preorder now on Amazon!
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Oral reading fluency is defined as the ability to read text aloud with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.
Tomorrow, listen and learn as Jan shares why it's SUCH an important starting point to determine next steps... and how we can support students' fluency instruction.
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Dr. Deb Glaser: Are you making time for students to encode and decode words? Orthographic mapping will happen faster!
@debglaser
#TRLConf2022
#scienceofreading
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“Some of the kids are going to read in spite of the way you’re teaching which reinforces the idea that your philosophy of teaching is just fine.”
@LouisaMoats
Episode 113: Reading is Rocket Science with Louisa Moats
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FLUENCY: Phrasing or Scooping? BOTH! You can help students understand what they are reading by encouraging them to read in meaningful phrases!
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Reading comprehension is not a skill💙
Love this powerful excerpt from
@rpondiscio
“Confronting 5 Damaging Educational Myths,” May 18, 2022,
🎧 This Friday’s episode will dig into this topic! Listen @
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"If we teach someone to swim, they can soon transfer that skill to any body of water, whether it be a pool, lake, or ocean. But reading comprehension is not a skill someone learns and can then apply in different reading contexts."
📚 Read full article:
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What can we read to learn more about reading science? This list from
@ehanford
is so helpful! Let's start with
#1
:
@reading_league
's Science of Reading Defining Guide.
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Navigating speech sounds and letters can be overwhelming, but a sound wall is here to help! With 44 speech sounds, 26 letters, and over 200 ways to spell those sounds in English, learners can feel supported and make sense of it all! 🌟
Learn more:
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Bringing home our Science of Reading Beyond Phonics: The Ultimate Goal of Reading Series with Doug Fisher!
"You cannot predict your way through a text you cannot read." -Doug Fisher
Say 👏 It 👏Louder 👏
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When we encourage students to look at part of the letters in a word or draw their attention away from the letters with picture clues, we teach them ineffective ways to access text. Let's teach them habits of good readers!
#lookatalltheletters
#scienceofreading
#💙
@ehanford
#📚
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🆕 Did you listen?! Episode 188 🆕
Hear Katie Pace Miles talk more about Ehri's theory of orthographic mapping and how we read words by sight. 👀
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There's a misconception about the science of reading - that we are only talking about phonemic awareness and phonics. (Yes, these are important). However, these are small blocks of time during the literacy block. The reality is... there's SO MUCH MORE to teaching reading!
#read
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This is why MTSS isn't working ↙️
You're using a reactive system instead of a proactive system. 💣
Instead of waiting for students to fail, let's...
🚀 Teach Tier 1 using structured, quality materials
🚀 Intervene early & immediately
🚀 Have a clear plan for MTSS structures
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Full stop. ⛔
Doug Fisher shared this with us... and we can't wait for you to hear the conversation about it on tomorrow's podcast. 🔥
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This week's guest has a ton of advice for you about phonemic awareness instruction. AND... it's all backed by research! Here are some quick tips from Dr. Matt Burns.
Hear more about these on Friday's new episode!
#scienceofreading
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Wondering where to spend most of your time when teaching phonemic awareness? Research supports focusing on three skills: isolating sounds, blending sounds, and segmenting sounds.
Learn more with us and Dr. Matt Burns this Friday!
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Anita Archer: How do you help older students who are struggling to read? OUR FAVORITE. Build students world and word knowledge so they can make sense of text! 🤩🔥👏
#TRLConf2022
#knowledgematters
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95% of all Ss can be taught to read by the end of 1st gr.
That means that in a school with 1000 K-5 students, only 50 Ss should need extra support. In a school nearby, it's more like 6x that number, with over 300 Ss not meeting proficiency.📚
#reading
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🛑 You need to hear this today: We need to teach our youngest students how to sound out and decode words. BUT that’s not all! We can’t forget about LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION!
Read this article: to see what you can do in your classroom!
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Did you preview the film The Right to Read?
🔥🔥🔥
If so, you KNOW what a powerful voice Kareem Weaver is. His drive to ensure that all students can read is unmatched.
🔥🔥🔥
We were lucky enough to talk to him last summer!
🔥🔥🔥
🎧 Listen again:
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Listen to our latest episode with the brilliant
@nellkduke
! Ep. 66 Re-thinking the Reading Rope with Nell Duke
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☀️NEW EPISODE! ☀️ Nathaniel Swain shares some research-based routines for improving students' reading fluency. The Science of Reading is not just phonics instruction!
🎧 Listen:
📺Watch:
#scienceofreading
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🤯 This is why Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) isn't working in YOUR school! 🤯
MTSS was designed to be a systemic model to merge general ed and special ed, aimed to PREVENT reading failure. 💭
Instead, we are doing a lot of INTERVENTION rather than PREVENTION. 🤔
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🚨 NEW EPISODE! What about English learners? What does research say about how English learners learn to read?
🎧 Listen Today! Episode 119: How Reading Science Works for English Learners with Dr. Elsa Cardenas-Hagan
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Nope ❎ High quality materials and instruction in social studies and science includes opportunities to use and practice literacy skills. High quality ELA materials include opportunities to learn ELA skills WHILE learning about disciplines. ✔️It's reciprocal, not replaceable.
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7 Characteristics of Strong Phonics Instruction. Let’s talk about
#7
now! “It’s in the application where the learning STICKS!”
@wbny
@cll_teach
@ExpressReaders
#PlainTalkNOLA
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Dr. Stephanie Stollar: MTSS needs to be the delivery system for reading instruction based on the research… Prevent reading failure in Tier 1 not JUST intervention 🔥
#TRLConf2022
#scienceofreading
@sstollar6
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Scarborough's Reading Rope & the Simple View of Reading include components of word recognition & language comprehension, but Scarborough's Rope breaks down those components & shows how they work together. Hugh Catts is back on Friday to tell us about these components!
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Looking to learn more about dyslexia? In case you missed our 11 (yes, E-L-E-V-E-N!) episodes posted during October about dyslexia, we've compiled them all in one place (thanks, Spotify!). We're loving this playlist concept, hope you do too! 😊
#dyslexia
#scienceofreading
#reading
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We can't wait for you all to jump into our Summer Learning series! We will have WEEKLY NEW EPISODES throughout the summer.
☀️☀️☀️
Sign up for our email list at so you don't miss info about any of our amazing guests this summer!
☀️☀️☀️
#scienceofreading
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Did you know? 🤯 24 years ago, the NRP found that PA instruction using letters helped readers acquire PA faster than instruction without. 🧠 🔉
Learn more on our latest podcast, or check out our book! You can find everything at our website ! 💙
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Another Friday, and another NEW EPISODE! 💙
Do you have questions about phonemic awareness instruction? Matt Burns answers questions about what the research says and what it does not.
🎧 Listen:
📺Watch:
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Who needs spelling instruction? All students.
See, recognize, and connect to meaning in spoken language. That’s the process. Integrated spelling instruction is a powerful teaching tool.
*Hear it*Say it*Write it*Read it & self-correct*Use it*
#reading
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🤔 Why is it so complicated to assess comprehension? Meredith Liben answers that question in our latest podcast episode!
Learn more in David and Meredith's new book: Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension:
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❔How do we change the message that the Science of Reading is only about foundational skills?
🎧 Listen here: or
#scienceofreading
#knowledgematters
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"Reading and writing float on a sea of talk." ~Doug Fisher 🌊
Students process what they read and prepare for writing by TALKING!
Academic talk, turn and talk, Socratic Seminars are some ways students prepare for writing tasks.
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This ⬇️ is such a great point. Anyone know Dr. Dykstra? We would love to talk to him!
“The entire design of balanced literacy ensured the adult will succeed even if the child did not.” ~ Steve Dykstra
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Ever find yourself itching to dive deeper into teaching reading to English language learners? 📚
📚 Grab the book
🎧 AND listen to a rerelease of our podcast episode with Elsa Cardenas Hagan this Friday!
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What should teachers consider when planning for reading lessons?
🔷 The Reading Comprehension Blueprint by Nancy Hennessy. 🔷
⭐ Access and download in Episode 146 show notes ⭐
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Good read!
@ReadingShanahan
on defining rdg skills and strategies: “Unfortunately, our carelessness is needlessly confusing and, perhaps, it is even a barrier to supporting the highest quality comprehension instruction.”
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We know that many of you read and loved a recent Shanahan on Literacy blog post about reading skills and strategies:
We talked with Tim in 2020 about this same topic. Take a listen now!
🎧 Listen:
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☀️NEW EPISODE! ☀️ 5th grade teacher, Sean Morrisey, shares what he does in his classroom to improve his students' vocabulary. The Science of Reading is not just phonics instruction!
🎧 Listen:
📺Watch:
#scienceofreading
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What Should Small Group Reading Instruction Look Like? Great question and response from the always-on-point
@ReadingShanahan
.
Read Shanahan's response to this question here:
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We are DIVING in to The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler this summer with ALLLL of our teacher friends! 🏊♀️
Join our email list to stay connected at - Stay updated on all of our newest episodes and summer book club.
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📣 NEW EPISODE ALERT 📣
The insightful Pamela Snow, addresses some common arguments defending balanced literacy and much more in this new episode!
🎧 Listen:
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☀️NEW EPISODE! ☀️ Nancy Hennessey, The Reading Comprehension Blueprint author, kicks off our conversations about comprehension instruction. The Science of Reading is not just phonics instruction!
🎧 Listen:
#scienceofreading
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Anita Archer: How do you help older students who are struggling to read?
#2
: Build fluency so students can focus on making sense of texts. Have a purpose for each repeated read. Practice reading with prosody. Read wide range of texts.
#TRLConf2022
#fluency
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Another thoughtful response from
@ReadingShanahan
about Sold a Story. Love the deep dive into the data and what it will take for all students to read on grade level!
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🌟 Calling all teachers! 🍎✨
Ever wondered about the magical link between spelling and reading? 📚🔗
Get ready to uncover the secrets with Pam Kastner in our upcoming episode! 🎉
💡 Don't forget to circle this Friday on your calendar - you won't want to miss out! 🗓️
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How do you use Elkonin boxes for Phonemic Awareness instruction?
In our latest episode, we answer a question about phonemic awareness and share about Elkonin boxes! 📦
🔗 Here is a link to FREE online Elkonin Boxes that you can use with your class!
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Many of you have asked for the Sold a Story Discussion Guide from Emily Hanford
@ehanford
and Margaret Goldberg
@right2readproj
.
HERE IT IS:
It's a great resource if you are looking to facilitate a conversation within your school or community!
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Happy National Schwa Day! 🥳
🧘♀️We hope you all stay UNSTRESSED today!
What are you doing to celebrate? 🎉
#NationalSchwaDay
#Unstressed
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🔤 Whether you call them sound boxes, Elkonin boxes, phoneme grapheme mapping, or word mapping, they're all about helping kids grasp the connection between letters and sounds 🧠📚
Listen to Episode 192 with Savannah Campbell to learn more! 🎧 Listen:
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Swipe for
#scienceofreading
#bookrecs
. 📚🗣️ Have you read any? Tell us about your favorites in the comments below ⬇️
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In yesterday's episode (Ep. 142),
@DrEOrtizJr
shared some solid advice for how to lead teachers through changes in literacy.
@natwexler
shares some similar ideas in this recent article.
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How can we use small group time to address real problems? Erin Metz, instructional coach from TN, shares how she does this by rethinking small group time.
Literacy Podcast Episode 140
Shanahan Blog
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Which programs or curricula are based in the science of reading research??! 📚
Every product we see claims to be aligned to reading science. How do we know if it is ... or it isn't? 😵
Holly Lane, our guest on Friday's podcast 8/18, helps us learn what to look for!
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This study is a big deal! Read Natalie's article for more information, including the limitations of this one study, but also the major importance of the findings!
💙💙💙
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