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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Join us for a guided tour of our book with presentations and Q & A sessions! All participants will receive materials for hosting book studies (presentation slides, trainer notes, discussion questions, application activities, timed agendas, etc.) www.stephaniestollarconsulting.com/readingasses...

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It’s Testimonial Tuesday! 🎉 Each week leading up to the release of our book, Reading Assessment Done Right, we will be sharing one of the thoughtful endorsements received from a respected professional in the field. ⭐️ Thanks to Jan Hasbrouck for this week’s kind words! 📝

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thank you for sharing, Daniela! 💕

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

PRE-ORDERS OPEN! 🎉🎉🎉 Not only do we have a final cover for our book, but Stephanie Stollar and I can also share that the foreword is being written by the amazing Pam Kastner - what an honour for us - AND that pre-orders are now open on Scholastic & Amazon!

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A successful reading intervention for older students! You’re not going to want to miss my conversation with these dedicated @nearnorthdsb.bsky.social educators! reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...

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Daniella Green @daniellagreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🚗 This week, Kate welcomes Dr. Tiffany Hogan to explore Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). They dig into what DLD is, how it relates to dyslexia, signs educators can watch for at different grade levels, and how to support students in the classroom 🎧 reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🚗 What is implementation science, and why should educators care about it? In this new episode, Dr. Katlynn Dahl-Leonard breaks down how this field can help close the gap between literacy research and classroom practice. reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It feels wrong to “like” this post - but I’m doing it to show support.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Dr. Sarah Lupo shares how to support adolescent readers across subjects with practical, research-informed strategies. We discuss 5 major challenges that make texts tough for students & tools for scaffolding instruction. reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

K-2 teachers: Don’t miss the latest from @lindsaykemeny.bsky.social, diving deep into specific elements of her day, with minute-by-minute advice around arrival routines, phonics, close reading, writing, small groups/centers & read-alouds. P.S. I’ll be giving away a copy next week on Insta!

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El Más Guapo @somerandomclown.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

How on earth did I miss this??? Notifications ON…

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

New! Irish educator & researcher @readwritejen.bsky.social explores how young children develop the ability to make inferences & how educators can explicitly support this essential skill. Full of playful, practical strategies & research-backed insights. reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...

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Daniella Green @daniellagreen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🚗 Ep 1 is here! We kick off Season 4 w Leslie Laud of thinkSRSD for a chat on transforming writing instruction from K to high school. Discover how this evidence-based approach is building confidence in classrooms & reducing teacher workload. reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...

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S4 E1: thinkSRSD 101 with Dr. Leslie Laud

Buckle up - it's the Season 4 premiere of Reading Road Trip! Host Kate Winn kicks off the new season with Dr. Leslie Laud of thinkSRSD for a lively and practical conversation about transforming writin...

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I used a First Sound Fluency progress monitoring form to see where our Year 1 K students are in relation to the Beginning of Year benchmark for when they return in the fall. 🌟 100% of the students are already at or above benchmark 🔵 89% above 🟢 11% at #StructuredLiteracy

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Daniella Green @daniellagreen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🚘 Reading Road Trip is back for a fourth season! podcast.idaontario.com

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Bravo! Your students are lucky to have you.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Interesting EOY K screening tidbit… Only ONE student w composite score below benchmark: Phoneme Segmentation Fluency at benchmark Nonsense Word Fluency above benchmark (was below at MOY) But: Letter Naming Fluency score of 3. Very successful reader w/o letter names (yet).

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I’m sure you’re eagerly awaiting the book I’m cowriting with Stephanie Stollar on reading assessment for frontline educators 😉 but Stephanie has this brand new book with Sarah Brown available NOW and it is a must-read for school/district leaders! 😍

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Just one of the dyslexia myths @readwritejen.bsky.social is debunking in her latest Substack post. Have you subscribed yet? readwritejen.substack.com/subscribe?ut...

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

That is so kind of you to say - thank you! 💕

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Thanks for sharing, Pam! 💕

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

So excited for this! Dr. Stephanie Stollar and Kate Winn! What a dynamic duo!!

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The news is out - coming in January from me & Stephanie Stollar via Scholastic! We get so many questions from teachers about reading assessment, and this book covers everything you need to know! {Image is a placeholder; actual cover design to be revealed soon!}

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Any guesses what Stephanie Stollar and I were both doing at this very moment? Hint: we’re hard at work collaborating on something, and all will be revealed at the IDA Ontario #LitLearn2025 conference in Toronto next weekend! (Of course we will share on social media afterwards so stay tuned!)

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The Easter Bunny came early with my copy of @lindsaykemeny.bsky.social’s 7 Mighty Moves Reading Resources from Scholastic! K-3 educators who have read 7 Mighty Moves will appreciate this companion book with 320 pages of resources to support all 7 moves in the classroom. ❤️

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Oh this quote was just the tip of the iceberg…an entire book full of more of the same. For some reason we are supposed to be proud to accept our paycheques without providing any instruction. 🤷‍♀️

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Excellent episode with an extremely knowledgeable guest! This was my treadmilll listen yesterday and was worth every minute. @j-metsala.bsky.social

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Quote from a professional learning resource for teachers, shared like something to be proud of. For better advice, I suggest looking into the Instructional Hierarchy and the explicit instruction necessary for novices. 2/2

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Not actually a flex… “Classrooms went from spaces where we, as teachers, pre-taught students how to do things like add two-digit numbers, multiply fractions & order decimals, to spaces where students figured this out on their own with the support of their random groups.” 🤔 1/2

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I am SO lucky to have the people I work with, who are committed K-8 to strong literacy instruction!

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It makes me so happy to see amazing literacy bulletin boards like these in my colleagues’ rooms. These ones are from Grade 6/7 - imagine what rock stars my current K students will be in writing and morphology by the time they get to that class?!

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Year 1 (PreK) students at benchmark for phonemic awareness: Beginning of year: 43% Middle of year: 89% This was just with Tier 1, whole group phonics instruction. Ongoing now: targeted small group instruction to close gaps for the few students who didn’t meet benchmark.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

95% of the Year 2 kindergarten students at our school are at or above benchmark on Acadience Middle of Year screening. If that isn’t an endorsement for explicit and systematic phonics instruction (we use UFLI) I don’t know what is.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Hello! I’m in Canada and have also taught many students to read and initially sounding out short words like “in” does not hold them back from quickly building fluency. And when I refer to “not really reading”, I saw kids recite words without even looking at words - definitely not reading.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This sounding out and recoding is absolute 🎶 to my ears! Kids used to sound much smoother when they were following a pattern & guessing using pictures - no sounding out necessary when you aren't really reading! - but this is exactly what we want to hear! Shared w permission.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

❤️ to see this! And it also wouldn’t have happened if you were not an educator open to change!

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thanks for this new book, hot off the press @kristigraber.bsky.social - can’t wait to learn more about Executive Function!

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Related: this is one of the most impactful items supporting our kindergarten program. Our seating plan is incredibly strategic (based on many factors), and we adapt it throughout the year as necessary.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

And P.S. “Children should be seated so they are facing the source of the information: the teacher and the board” during lessons…despite the fact that many teachers have been misled otherwise.

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“It is showing empathy - not cruelty - to assign students to the seat that maximizes their attention, not least because it relieves them from the immense social pressure of having to choose between friends and learning.” So many practical ideas for instruction from @mrzachg.bsky.social!

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Kate Winn @katewinn.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So hard to choose just one quote… “All of this indicates that using time and resources to improve students’ academic achievement directly might well be a better agent of psychological change than psychological interventions themselves.”

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Blake Harvard @blakeharvard.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Not a bad way to start your Saturday morning. 🙂

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