1 of my favorite moments from ⁦The Reading League⁩ Conferences. From the one & only Dr. Marianne Wolf dispelling the myth of “drill and kill” . “Actually what we are doing is giving multiple exposures to the visual word form area in the visual cortex.” TRL 2023 Conf. 17 days!

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It’s all connected! Working hard connecting hand motions to phonemic awareness routines! Heggerty

Hempstead school district leading the charge, investing in learning communities and resources (Bridge to Reading) that build literacy! Phonics, phonemic awareness, decoding, encoding, and more!!! Heggerty

⭐Spotlight on Bridge to Reading: Red Words are high-frequency words that are the most commonly used words in printed & written text. These words are not meant to be memorized; children will learn to stop & think about each word before reading or writing 🔗bit.ly/3JzTTiD

Segmenting transfers to encoding (writing and spelling) These kiddos are being set up for word recognition success! #BridgetoReading Heggerty

If a school teaches Fundations K-2, it is so important to continue building on that foundation. Remind Ss that the drills may go away, but the skills do not. Upper-grade Ts need to learn the 6 syllable types & division rules along with other skills in order to keep the momentum.

Building home language in our dual language classes! #hempsteadschools #duallanguage #heggertyspanish

Many teachers, including myself, do not have difficulties with sound discrimination. This can make it difficult for us to understand & relate to students who do struggle with it. Sometimes, unintentionally, I make assumptions based on my own learning experience as a child, not

This is ONE way to use decodable readers! Break up those pages into individual sentences and play musical sentences!

Future science scholars at work! The 2nd grade Science Club at MWDPrimarySchool placed capsules in warm water and made a hypothesis of what they would expand to be once the capsule dissolved. #ExcellenceOnPurpose @GoMules Ed Tallon- Principal

If you’ve been experiencing confusion lately, looks like you’re in good company. Mother Nature seems pretty confused. Maybe we should take a cue and begin to shed & bloom at the same time. 😳🌸 Shed what no longer serves you, grow in new ways. ❤️

"When you are teaching spelling...You are teaching reading." Dr. Pam Kastner "It (encoding) requires a deeper and more consistent practice of identifying the individual speech sounds to letters." Herron & Gillis, 2020.

Take one guess what tonight’s topic is for this 10-part #StructuredLiteracy Learning series for Holliston Schools?! Decodable books are NOT Decodable without explicit, systematic instruction of letter-sound correspondences! Furthermore, not all “Decodables” are decodable (gasp!)

Congratulations Regina Armstrong for receiving the drum major award at the 39 th annual award ceremony of Alpha Phi Alpha Faternity Dr. Martin Luther King Jr NYSCOSS . She is getting to greater in Hempstead Schools .

How can you build comprehension/language comp when kiddos have not reached the automatic phase of reading? Planned instructional read alouds. Are you prioritizing reading aloud to students?

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When evaluating the effectiveness of a curriculum, “ask teachers” Ben Heggerty stopped by to “ask teachers” Heggerty’s Bridge to Reading had me at hello… but this is a bonus!