Turn Small Reading Groups into Big Wins ascd.org/publications/n… Thank you for this, Nell K. Duke, and for your leadership with the #Michiganliteracy essentials (referenced twice within). Share widely, ASCD! 📚📖📓 Michigan ASCD MAISA MEMSPA Literacyessentials.org

I don't know who needs to hear this today. You do not need a theme for your classroom. You do not need to spend a lot of money making your room "perfect" or "cute". Your students need a room that is theres (not yours) where they are seen and heard. That can't be bought

Two-minute video from PBS: WKAR Family, Promoting Literacy At Home | WKAR Family featuring Tanya Wright of Michigan State University; video.wkar.org/video/promotin…

Teacher Hierarchy of Needs graphic from U-M Marsal Family School of Education Center for Education Design, Evaluation, & Research (soe.umich.edu/covid19-resour…)

"It is our nation’s dedicated teachers and their excellent teaching that will bring the rocket science that is research-based reading instruction to schools and classrooms across the country and will unlock the power and joy of reading for our children." - aft.org/ae/summer2020/…

Great resource!

Preschool educators: Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer from Virginia Tech has shared a video demonstrating how to do shared reading with print referencing at a distance/remotely. Posted (with permission) on my YouTube Channel: youtu.be/fua1pp8X3i0 Thank you, @haemesmer !

In this blog post, I've shared some ideas about supporting children's #vocabulary development during remote learning. College of Education #MichiganLiteracy blog.heinemann.com/supporting-voc…

An article I hope will help with the complex challenge of prompting young readers in classrooms. Thanks for feedback & support of the piece from Linnea Ehri, Barbara Foorman, @haemesmer, @PDavidPearson, Tim Rasinski, Timothy Shanahan, and Tanya S. Wright ascd.org/publications/e…

Is my child getting the phonics instruction she deserves? Teaching my kid to read? Right to Read Project has some good tips for parents and caregivers. readingrockets.org/blogs/right-re…

Pause Prompt Praise versus 3-Cueing... Why promote one and shun the other? An explanation of the role of meaning in decoding. shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/3p-versus…

Reading research in the time of Science of Reading shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/the-whys-…

What have decades of research told us about the nature of comprehension & how to develop students’ comprehension in schools? 🧵The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction, an article for practitioners, by me, @wardalessandrae, & @PDavidPearson free@ ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Uh oh, here he goes again: RIP to advanced phonemic awareness shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/rip-to-ad…

Enjoying our pd with ✨ 𝕃𝕚𝕫 Toruno✨ #🆃🅴🅰🅼🅱🅲🆂🅳 learning about de-escalating and connecting with hard to reach Ss.

If "knowing EXACTLY where your students are" means knowing what "level" they are reading, that is most certainly NOT "best practice". Instead, we must know where our students are in their development of foundational skills and language. Do not ignore the science.

In 2021, a collective of researchers and teacher educators analysed 104 of the highest quality studies on Professional Development (PD). What they found ushered in a new paradigm for thinking about PD. Here's the lowdown. ↓

Something I am grateful for? I learned to read easily. I'm a fast reader. It's helped a LOT on this project. I have read hundreds of articles/books about the science of reading over the past 5 years. I recommend 10 things here (was SUPER hard to choose). apmreports.org/story/2022/10/…

Great morning listening to Rick Wormeli about true learning and the integrity of grading practices