The Practice Guide from the IES "Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade" offers 4 Recommendations. Check out 1 recommendation below! For the full guide, visit the website below: ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/Pract…

PICK YOUR WINNER!👇🏻 Today's match: "Introduction to Poetry" by B. Collins poetryfoundation.org/.../introducti… versus "Tula [Books are door-shaped]" by M. Engle poetryfoundation.org/poems/141835/t…

"Phonics instruction involves talk. It involves observation. And it involves tons of application to authentic reading and writing experiences." -Wiley Blevins, Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact

Dickinson is the height of American poetry, but Donne’s sonnet weaponizes the Gospel against Death with a clever intellect. I have to go with “Death Be Not Proud”!

"Students' ability to read nonfiction texts depends on their prior knowledge, and the act of reading nonfiction adds to their knowledge base and helps them learn more from subsequent reading. We need to find ways to weave prior knowledge into our students' reading." -Doug Lemov

Regional Literacy Institute—round 2! Here we go!

This morning’s keynote from Todd Whitaker! Soooo good! “Confidence is the best gift you can give your teachers and the best gift teachers can give their student.” Florida Department of Education #FDOE2024RLI Plantation Key School MCSD in the FL Keys

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Check out these research highlights on blending from Wiley Blevins' books Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact. "Blending is a strategy that must be frequently modeled and applied in phonics instruction to have the maximum benefits for students." #literacy

“Spoken language is “hard-wired” inside the human brain.” But reading is not. “Only 13 percent [of US adults] are classified as ‘proficient’ [readers].” Read the article on the necessary oral language development during the journey to skilled reading. readingrockets.org/topics/early-l…

How are you using assessment data to drive literacy instruction? #literacy

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One of 5 strands of the Writing Rope, Sedita argues that students need explicit instruction around syntax to fully develop as writers. In her book, The Writing Rope, she highlights Sentence Elaboration and Sentence combining as effective activities.

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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”