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Jun 12
Gen Xer here. A new Olivia Rodrigo album is a lot like getting a new issue of Sassy magazine.
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Oh, is this pile of clean towels for me? It's just my size!
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Friends brought over leftover Eid cookies and I will try not to eat them all in the next 24 hours.
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Send good vibes to those of us who still have two more weeks of school.
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May 25
"people who have influence but lack expertise" ... So much bad policy can be explained by these words.
May 24
Fortunately, we have actual reading researchers chiming in to address the misconceptions.
HT @HollyLanePhD.
It's a real problem that state leaders have alternate impressions.
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May 22
This is a must watch! I took pages of notes ... It's just that good.
May 20
Missed this live but it's here!
Instructional Illusions... a must read and must watch...
Summary here:
itsalearningcurve.education/…
with @New_Old_Paul @C_Hendrick @DrJimHeal
youtube.com/watch?v=wH3_p2Av…
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May 14
One of the best things about being an educator in Texas is that you will almost certainly get breakfast tacos on in-service days.
Now that I'm in WA, I'm constantly underwhelmed by the Costco muffins they call breakfast on PD days.
May 13
This has sparked a lot of dumb taco discourse that’s exposing all the Yankee Republican influencers as the wannabe Texans they are
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May 12
Interesting, though not entirely surprising, look into the cognitive factors that contribute to reading.
education.tamu.edu/how-child…
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Scenes with lots of action can be challenging for my students to comprehend, so we created this image to track the action in Ch. 18 of The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents. Kinda reminds me of Cy Twombly.
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I describe Text Tracking in detail in my book, Reading Beyond the Basics.
a.co/d/06r9Vtag
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Apr 30
Crunched data for the students I teach. (Only one group this year, as I’m mostly lit coaching) Averages: 19 point gain in fluency, 97% accuracy, 76th percentile growth. All students qualify for special education. How did we do it? Grade level text, FASE reading, decoding practice
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Apr 30
I was skeptical of FASE reading at first, bc I wasn’t sure about students taking turns reading. Felt too much like popcorn reading. But I intentionally choose what each student will read. They don’t know when they will read, so they can’t read ahead.
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Apr 30
It only took a week for them to get into the routine and they now complain if I ask them to read too little.
It helps that all the students are striving readers. They don’t feel self-conscious around each other. But anecdotally I’ve heard they participate more in gen ed too.
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Apr 28
Facebook rudely reminded me that my first class of first graders had their senior signing day ELEVEN years ago.
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Apr 19
Spent a wonderful week visiting schools in NYC; but seriously. Air travel has become so miserable it makes me think twice about such trips. I used to enjoy work travel. It was usually painless. Now airlines are trying to squeeze consumers for every cent.
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Apr 15
There are still places where the "science of reading" conversation has barely started, and I'm worried that we are talking about "over-teaching" phonics when we're still under-teaching in many classrooms.
How about, "what's optimal and are we doing too much or too little?"
Apr 14
Are kids spending too much time on phonics?
I dunno, but I'd sure like to see some data!
In the meantime, the best evidence suggests kids need a lot more practice with fluency, and that decoding goes far beyond the basics (e.g. how "cat" becomes "education").
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Apr 12
This is exciting! Currículum by a teacher. For teachers and kids.
@smorrisey is featured in the chapter of my book about building a culture that supports readers. His insight was invaluable, and I can't wait to see it actualized in learning materials.
Apr 11
It's official. The Word Mapping Project website is up, and the curriculum is now available for purchase. A big thank you to everyone who supported me during this process. Let's do right by kids.
wordmappingproject.com
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Those of us who advocate for the "science of reading" and are deeply entrenched in the SOR are often appalled when the rich, varied research about reading is boiled down to "teach phonics." Yes, we should teach phonics, and... (4/7)
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And realize that reading science goes far beyond teaching students to read words. It's why you find so many SOR advocates pushing back against curricula that water down great literature to excerpts in a "reading book." It's also why so many of us are convinced (6/7)
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... that standardized test prep and "passages" are unnecessary if you center classrooms on reading whole books and ensuring access to students of all abilities. (7/7)
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