In our latest episode 🎧 Blythe Anderson shares her top 10 Vocabulary Talk Moves. Read this article to learn all 32 moves! 😍 🔗 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Words are powerful. 🤩 We are thrilled to have linguist and author Lyn Stone on the podcast today. 🎧 If you're curious about how etymology and morphology can transform student learning, this episode is for you. 🔗 ow.ly/X8e250V6mwE

Students + LEDs + Star Wars = Epic Makerspace Fun! May The Circuit Be With You on May the 4th. Get ready to awaken the Force in your classroom with our Light Saber Paper Circuit tutorial! FREE Templates 🔦 makerspaces.com/makerspace-pro… #EdTech #PBL

This is why your child is not getting Educational Assistant support. This is why there is no Spec Ed Teacher to help your child catch up on basic math or literacy skills. This is why the ventilation in your child’s classroom is not working. policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…

To my friends using UFLI, check out this timer that can be used to support pacing: board.multitimer.net/view/?q=kaz42l… The app, Multitimer, is free in the App Store. It’s easy to use and provides a quiet alert to move on to the next step. #UFLI #perkypacing

📚 PHinder is a free tool from Dr. Devin Kearns that helps you find phonics patterns based on their frequency in real words. 🔍 Just type in a pattern or sound and PHinder will do the rest. (You’ll love how nerdy-cool it is. We did!) 👉 Try it out: devinkearns.com/phinder/

Every teacher should listen to this episode. Every interventionist should listen to this episode. Every teacher of reading should listen to this episode. Every reading specialist. Every administrator and every ed leader who makes decisions around reading should listen to

✨ Jessica Toste shares a peel-off strategy for multisyllabic words: identify prefixes + suffixes first, then put the whole word together. 💡 🎧 Hear more routines for reading big words in a new episode THIS FRIDAY with Jessica Toste & Brennan Chandler. literacypodcast.com/podcast

Just one more example of our brilliant doctoral students at, Mount St. Joseph University-Reading Science Program !

Big words aren’t scary… when you know how to teach them. 💪 In our latest blog, we share flexible routines and practical tips focused on helping kids own multisyllabic word reading. 👉 Teachers, this one’s for you! Click the link to read. literacypodcast.com/blog/practical…

I think I am going to post these in my room, right next to Dr. Archer's Archerism chart. Responsive Teaching Principles by Carl Hendrick : "Adjust the teaching, not your expectations." "Reteach don't just repeat." "Feedback is a change, not a comment." "Slow down to speed up."

Think-Pair-Share has the widest gap between success and failure in the classroom. With clear prompts, tight timing, and real accountability, it’s a powerhouse for thinking. Toss it in without intentional design and it collapses into noise. With TPS, intentionality is everything.

New research from SRI Education highlights a gap between the adoption of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and the depth of reading comprehension instruction in elementary classrooms. Although teachers widely use comprehension-focused curricula and students are actively

In our latest Substack, we explore how vocabulary is knowledge to be built, not a strategy to be deployed. Through explicit instruction, implicit support, and recursive practice, words move from exposure to ownership. hubs.la/Q0411QW00