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andyilec.bsky.social @andyilec.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Don't let Lexia or Louisa Moats trick you into thinking that there's research to support LETRS professional development. There is none. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6Q...

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Webinar: Louisa Moats, SoR Research Standards, and Baloney

YouTube video by Dr. Andy Johnson

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Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Your toddler wants nothing more than to be like you. To walk like you. To talk like you. To emulate your every move. And sometimes they can get pretty creative about their approach. I just love this video shared to TT by h3yitskaylee. (Thread 🧵)

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Child's Play (International) @childs-play.co.uk · 13/12/2024

Give them the joy of reading, it's never too soon! 🎁 More here: www.childs-play.com 🎁 #Bookswithusallin #ReflectingRealities #SmashingStereotypes #KidLit #ReadingTogether #ReadingforPleasure #Bookgiftsarethebestgifts

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Alan j Wright @alwriting.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

'We need poetry … We deserve poetry / We owe it to ourselves to re-create ourselves / and find a different if not better way to live.' Nikki Giovanni – Acolytes, 2007

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Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“How was your day, Cora?!” This video is such a lovely illustration of toddler play that I couldn’t resist sharing. (Thread 🧵)

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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The science of reading for pleasure 'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...

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People who are good at reading have different brains

Reading can change the brain.

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Why hasn't this report had more publicity and more discussion? Or have I just missed it? The compulsory phonics screening test is taking up huge amounts of classroom time & yet seems to have no beneficial impact on either reading or writing. epi.org.uk/publications...

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What can quantitative analyses tell us about the national impact of the phonics screening check? - Education Policy Institute

A new report published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) examines the impact of the national phonics screening check (PSC) on early reading development in primary schools across England. The res...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Where does the idea come from that inquiry-based learning is the driving philosophy & principal practice of American public schools? It's a criticism I see frequently to justify a "shift" toward teacher-driven instruction when, from what I can tell, we never left in the first place. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Helen Proulx @hproulx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A unique opprtunity for Early Childhood Educators! Please share widely!! literacyconference.org/sessions/prek/

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I wrote a whole paper in graduate school criticizing the Units of Study, so I’m not a fan by any means. Still, this is insane and sets a horrific precedent. It’s the type of zealotry that can only be found in the newly converted & under informed. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Parents Sue Lucy Calkins, Fountas and Pinnell, and Others Over Reading Curricula

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit targets creators of whole-language reading curricula.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Wait, people are suing over curriculum??? Look, I’m a *huge* fan of public scholarship. It’s how I position most of my work & is sorely needed right now—but the fact a journalist podcaster with zero research background has set the literacy legislative agenda for half the country is wildly unhinged.

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a white squirrel is making a funny face with the words just why below it

ALT: a white squirrel is making a funny face with the words just why below it

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Helen Proulx @hproulx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A unique opprtunity for Early Childhood Educators! Please share widely!! literacyconference.org/sessions/prek/

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Pernille Schmidt Ripp @pernille.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This absolutely thrills me. We protested so hard for so long against Act 10

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Pernille Schmidt Ripp @pernille.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fun fact about teaching at my Danish school: when we are sick, we’re not required to write sub plans because we’re sick. The subs are paid well to come up with their own activities with the students. We also have the same staff of subs all year, so the students know them fairly well.

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Dorie @doriec.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

US teachers, can you even imagine this happening?? Because, and I’m not exaggerating, it would be life changing 😭

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 03/12/2024

A Christmas #maths mystery is unraveling...

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Association of Teachers of Mathematics @atmmathematics.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

The Joint Primary Group of the ATM and MA are pleased to launch ‘KS1 Assessment Tasks – Tasks not Tests’. a collaboration between mathematics educators and are freely available by all to access. @Mathematical_A atm.org.uk/News/ks1-tas...

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Dr Helen J Williams 🇪🇺🇵🇸 @helenjwc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you haven’t taken a look at these yet … please do 👇🏼 #TasksNotTests at KS1

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Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thinking inside the box. 📦 Yesterday I shared some holiday gift giving advice, one piece of which resonated with many of you. It was a note that your toddler may be just as interested in the box a toy comes in as the toy itself. (Thread 🧵)

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Helen Proulx @hproulx.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Another must read out of the UK- synthetic phonics & phonics screening that many are advocating for do not appear to be having the desired effect. Thanks @alwriting.bsky.social for sharing theconversation.com/phonics-scre...

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Phonics screening check: why this test taken by six-year-olds in England just isn’t needed

This assessment is high-stakes for schools – but children’s reading isn’t improving.

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Brent Gilson-Lifting Literacy @mrbgilson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My friend @terieh.bsky.social has joined and I added her to the Lifting Literacy starter pack. go.bsky.app/CJ8yy9B

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Dorie @doriec.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My son’s district switched to Fundations (a science of reading based curriculum) this year. I was asking him how class was going and he said: I hate it. We used to read books and novels and now all we do is talk about what sounds letters make. I just want to have fun reading. #EduSky

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thanks @helenjwc.bsky.social for encouraging me to put pen to paper - it set off so many fertile avenues of thought and investigation!

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sometimes, when I slow down, I get to see children’s impulse to revisit ideas for what it is: a natural engine room for learning. It’s a thing of beauty that’s frequently waving back at me from their drawings.

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Nursery child describing her creative process: “This is mummy. I wanted to paint her with rainbow hair, but her hair is browny black and yellow, so instead I painted her ‘Rainbow Shaped’ hair so people could see!” Picasso: ‘it takes a long time to become young’

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I’m struck by the capacity of young minds, whose age is measured in months, to learn at a speed much greater than mine, measured in years. Can I match the speed of learning they’ve achieved in their 36 months since birth? No. Working with brilliant minds is a serious business!

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A nursery child joyfully holds a single Montessori ‘Golden Bead’ in one hand and a 1,000 Golden Beads, in the form of a cube, in the other. He’s enthralled by the difference in magnitude, number & weight. He holds 10 & 100, feeling their relationship. It got me drawing…

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Nursery child draws his dad surfing, with Pen & Paint. In a few strokes he captures: the puffiness of clouds; rhythm & motion of waves; shape & movement of a surfboard; the balancing position of dad’s arms. Lucky us: we glimpse just how much a child of 38 months can see. Joy!

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“Why did the Hungry Caterpillar make a cocoon?” #EYFS child: “So no one bothers him.” “Sorry?” I ask. EYFS child: “He needs time to THINK himself INTO a butterfly.” “Wow!” I respond. EYFS child: “Well, he didn’t do it by magic.”

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nursery child sets up the fruit & milk bar ready for the morning: “10 cups & 10 plates!” He looks up, spare plate in hand: “Is 11 the biggest number in the world?” he asks. “Are you wondering there might be bigger numbers somewhere?” I respond “..39?…78?…but I don’t know how big they are.”

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Dorie @doriec.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The science of reading debate is so hot in education spaces right now and this is an important point #EduSky

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Deaf readers are the ultimate plot twist for the Science of Reading. SoR insists sound-based approaches (oral language, phonics, phonological awareness) are required. Yet here we are, a whole community of deaf folks reading without hearing or speaking a word. What does that tell you?

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a man in a lab coat is smiling and asking is you mad ?

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Angela Stockman @angelastockman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I host a meetup for teachers interested in pedagogical documentation each month. It's one of my favorite gatherings, including practitioners of all experience levels and from different walks. We are hopping on Zoom at 7pm EST. If you'd like to join, lemme know. We'd love your company.

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Trusting Readers @trustingreaders.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thank you for sharing this list. #KidLit

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It is the Winter of Our Discontent… @21cpedagogy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

As a HS English teacher, I’ll also add that NONE of this helps them become better writers. None of it. They become better writers by reading more and writing more. Teaching grammar in context of that is so much more beneficial.

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Trusting Readers @trustingreaders.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thank you to the book booths for giving away so many picture books. I’ll be reading these and then giving them to classrooms. @kristimontague.bsky.social #KidLit #ReadAloud #NCTE2024

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

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Helen Proulx @hproulx.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“Clay's literacy processing theory is complex & multifaceted, & she cautioned that "if literacy teaching only brings a simple theory to a set of complex activities, then the learner has to bridge the gaps created by the simplification" (2015, p. 105)...https://tinyurl.com/shene89r

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Brent Gilson-Lifting Literacy @mrbgilson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you were blessed enough to visit with Chanea she is looking for you haha

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Jenn Hayhurst @hayhurst3.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

You guys there is so much hope and joy at #ncte24 it’s not that things aren’t hard, it is that I am not alone. I can be an advocate for Ss and Ts knowing you are with me. #EduSky

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Helen Proulx @hproulx.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Love this blog post from @teresacremin.bsky.social about the power of sharing narrative poetry with children. I’m wondering about my North American friends… how are you using narrative poetry in your classroom? Any favourites? Particularly interested in titles for K-2 children… tinyurl.com/4kz3rxvf

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Teresa Cremin: Narrative Poetry – Creativity at Play

I’m a big fan of narrative poetry for young people – are you? It entices me in, holds me secure in a story, eager to read on, yet also enables me to enjoy the savours and flavours of poetry…

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Helen Proulx @hproulx.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“…context for this study: U.K. primary schools have a heavy emphasis on phonics, so students referred to Reading Recovery had already had systematic phonics instruction in K & yet were not decoding well. It appears that RR…found a way to crack the phonics code for most students.”

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More Research Proves Reading Recovery Meets the Phonics Challenge - Reading Recovery Council of North America

In this article in Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, Sinéad Harmey and Jake Anders (University College London) report on their study of 6,023 U.K. primary-grade students who took part ...

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Joolone @joolone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

‘Think and Do’ my driving instructor advised. ‘Think and do, think and do.’ And when I finally passed my driving test he said: ‘It takes a lot of thinking and doing before you can do without thinking.’ Genius. It inspired a drawing…

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