Still open to new participants! PK-3rd grade teachers we need you! Drawing for four $25 a Amazon gift cards for all who complete the survey!

So fun to be with my fellow word nerds at #AERA2023 and to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of Dr. Barbara Wasik!

📚 New pub alert - check out our latest paper aimed at early childhood educators offering ways to support vocabulary development through playful activities! Ally Charlotte Anne Wright KathyandRo ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

It's official! Tenured and promoted. I'm so relieved and so grateful for the community who made this possible. Many thanks to my family, my collaborators, my colleagues at USF (esp my Lit Studies people), my mentors, and the external reviewers.

AERA folks w/ research in vocabulary/ies, language/s, and literacy/ies, pls consider applying to the AERA Vocabulary SIG for #AERA2024! Our Call for Proposals, put in conversation w/ AERA President Tyrone Howard's call to action, can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1ZX…

Interesting work by Sonia Cabell et al. #SSSR2023

Do you love Bluey? We do! Doug Piper Aria Gastón-Panthaki Check out our article on how the show portrays many principles from developmental science, including work from KathyandRo and Dr. Tovah P. Klein theconversation.com/bluey-teaches-…

Congratulations to my awesome colleague!

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For today's #WisdomWednesday, we are excited to share "State-Funded Pre-K and Children’s Language and Literacy Development: The Case of COVID-19" - Elizabeth Burke Hadley, Siyu Liu, Eunsook Kim, Meaghan McKenna, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31… Liz Hadley Meaghan McKenna

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My New Year’s resolution- to have more meaningful conversations! So honored to celebrate this book launch that supports meaningful classroom conversations with the Strive for Five approach! Thank you to Sonia Cabell for co-authoring

So grateful to these USF College of Education Literacy Studies faculty members and students who came out in support of the #5KforK12 on Saturday! Readers, Not Runners scores points for their team name, too. 💚💛

Check out our recent article in Ed Researcher! This study had two purposes: 1) investigating impact of COVID on preschoolers' language and literacy skills 2) using COVID closures as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of state-funded pre-k in FL

Excited to launch this new grant funded by NSF Developmental Sciences! We will be using sensing technology (LENA and ReelyActive) to capture and automatically analyze teacher-child language interactions in pre-k. usf.edu/education/blog…

A study co-authored by researchers from Boston University, University of South Florida, University of Notre Dame, Sonia Cabell, and Dr. Leushuis of FSU Anne's College examines the frequency of informational text read-alouds in kindergarten and their impact on vocab and knowledge development. bit.ly/3DtFhl3

A new publication from Wang, Cabell, Hadley, Pentimonti, and Leushuis offers an updated perspective on the frequency of informational text use during read-aloud sessions by kindergarten teachers. bit.ly/3DtFhl3