Free books that were written with attention to decodability *and* to other factors that research suggests support the development of young readers. Thank you to Dr. Julia Lindsey in collaboration with BostonPublicSchools #soproudofmyadvisee! beyonddecodables.com

The Bobcats win their first game of the season on the Swing Off W courtesy of Evan Hutson! 🐱

Evan Hutson drives one to left for an RBI double and gives the Bobcats a 6-5 lead! #WhereBaseballGrows

.Evan Hutson gives the ‘Cats their first lead of the night on a MOONSHOT to left! 🚀🌗 Bottom 6: 11-8 🐱

A big congratulations to you Kurt! Crying tears of joy for you! Such an amazing young man and family!

#NoPawsLeftBehind

NEW blog post: the spelling voice. What a spelling voice is and how to use it when teaching spelling. In which I overcomplicate something rather simple. jweducation.co.uk/2021/09/21/spe…

Loved cheering on UConn Women’s Basketball to an awesome win over DePaul! So excited to see Paige Bueckers in person also!

Playing Wordle or thinking about taking it up? I wrote a blog post about reminders Wordle offers about effective phonics and spelling instruction. 🤓🔡 ~5-minute read ASCD thereadingforum ascd.org/blogs/what-wor…

How to Navigate Social Media Debates about the “Science of Reading” – radical eyes for equity radicalscholarship.com/2022/01/30/how…

Three reasons why segmenting is the mother of all skills in learning to read *and* spell: theliteracyblog.com/2018/01/10/3-r… ”As a literate adult, you may not realise that when you are reading, you are segmenting words into their constituent sounds and then blending them to form words.”

This article from Understood goes through the day in the life of a child with dyslexia so educators and families can better understand what students with this LD can go through. buff.ly/3H7VJDp

NAME AN ANIMAL WITH THREE LETTERS IN ITS NAME. #familyfeud #fail

Summer baseball ⚾️ has begun…Evan Hutson with the Bobcats and Chad Hutson managing the Blue Caps in the Kernels Collegiate League.

Research shows that drawing aids students in their ability to recall information. Introducing more visual forms of note-taking could be a game changer in the classroom. ✏️ edutopia.org/article/how-an…

📢 We are proud to present our Thanksgiving Parade! 🍁 After reading the book, Balloons Over Broadway, we became inspired to become puppeteers ourselves! 🎈 Enjoy the show! 🥁 (Created w/ DoInk Tweets and Canva) #TeacherTwitter #Teaching #CanvaEDU Belinda Martins #TEACHers

Jonathan the tortoise celebrates 190th birthday, oldest living land animal fxn.ws/3gUToEL

I could watch this all day! 👶🏻 📚 📖 😃

Cool!

Are you like the first or second kid? 😂