FLUENCY FRIDAY! For this Fluency Friday, I am sharing Halloween poems by 2 of my favorite children’s poets – Kenn Nesbitt & David L Harrison. Rehearsing & performing poetry is one of the best ways to develop fluency – in an authentic & artful way. Best wishes & Happy Halloween!

**Vary Sentence Length*** Here are some resources on varying sentence lengths: docs.google.com/document/d/1sI… Example provided by Gary Provost

this is the greatest piece of advice I’ve ever heard to keep working despite the hard nature of progress.

They should teach this in every school: EVERYTHING you learn, even basic math, decays over time unless you use it regularly in daily life or make a deliberate effort to practice it. This phenomenon is known as Ebbinghaus’s Forgetting Curve.

Handwriting is not a motor skill. It is a reading skill. We treat them as separate subjects, but neuroscience says they are the same circuit. Last week I discussed Orthographic Mapping (OM). Many focus on the "sound" part, but miss the "motor" bridge. Here is why the hand

The best protocol to eliminate filler words (ummms etc.) These are otherwise very difficult to eliminate b/c they happen reflexively. Matt Abrahams on the Huberman Lab podcast out now all about how to speak clearly and with confidence.

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🧠 “Connect, Extend, Challenge” is one of my favorite ways to help students reflect & stretch their thinking in meaningful ways. See how this routine can come to life in elementary and secondary classrooms: bit.ly/4dnfPdC #edchat #k12

How do we support struggling readers in grades 4 and up? This article reviews over 23 meta-analyses on the topic, provides a step by step guide to intervention, and new free resources, including a phonics app that can create up to 400 pages of workbooks. teachingbyscience.com/older-students

Two things to remember (per the amazing Elena Aguilar): 1. You get better at what you practice. 2. Everything is practice.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the teachers Hyatt Park Elementary School do their thing! #elementaryenergy

I like having my 5th graders complete quick writes as a way to practice using vocabulary and focusing on sentence composition like using appositive phrases etc. This was my favorite this week.

If you have a little concern about Tier 1️⃣ instruction with video, you're definitely not alone. BUT, it might make you feel better to know that using video instruction can actually remove the barriers that live instruction sometimes creates! Watch, then tune in to the latest

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I need to revisit Reading Rockets webpage more. So much really great stuff on there. I’ve been reading about sentence combining. I like how they suggest using old Fountas & Pinnell leveled readers to do just that. readingrockets.org/blogs/right-to… Those materials are just collecting dust.

I presented on this retrieval strategy a couple months ago during a webinar on using retrieval practice to achieve automaticity. Here’s my procedure for it. I call it “Where’s the Evidence?”.

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What explicit instruction practices should you look for when observing for fidelity of implementation? Our new eLearning module supports instructional coaches and admins observing explicit instruction, with classroom demonstration videos and an observation rubric.

Why should you invest in helping your multilingual learners develop metacognitive and self-regulation skills? 🤔 And how do you go about it? Find out now on my blog: bit.ly/476Z71J #engchat #k12