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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

☀️ Summer Skill Saturdays – Week 14! Focus: Morphology & Structured Word Inquiry. Explore a podcast, must-read books, Dr. Kelly Grillo’s infographic, & the Morphology Project 🇦🇺 Full narrative ➡️ bit.ly/Kastner-Full... Resources ➡️ bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Summer Skills Saturday – Week 12! 6 expert sessions w/ facilitation guides: Archer, Hunter, Hennessy, Van Cleave, and Gillis. Build skills in SoR, word recognition, comprehension, morphology & syntax. Access it all here: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... #ScienceOfReading

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Week 11 of #SummerSkillSaturdays is here! ☀️ Curated vids, articles & guides to kick off PD season right! 🎯 Topics: #StructuredLiteracy, #ExplicitInstruction & How the Brain Learns to Read. 📥 Dive in: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... #LiteracyLeadership #ReadingScience

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Goodbye beautiful & friendly, Fargo! Thank you to the educators of ND who are so eager and engaged to learn about the science of reading! Now it’s Alaska or bust, a bit of 2nd home for me! I am returning to learn with teachers who have become like family. #livingingratitude

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Week 10 of #SummerSkillSaturdays celebrates #ExplicitInstruction & routines after an amazing week w/ Dr. Anita Archer! 💡 Explore resources: 📊 bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-Week10-Infographic-InstructionalRoutines 📖 bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-Week10-InstructionalRoutines-FullNarrative

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

☀️Week 9 of #SummerSkillSaturdays is a #BookStudyBonanza! 📚 6 book studies on Structured Literacy, Dyslexia, ELs, Comprehension & more—with resources & recordings! 🖼️ Infographic: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... 📖 Full Narrative: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Week 8 of #SummerSkillSaturdays: ✍️Writing Wonders! Boost handwriting with top resources from Graham, Van Cleave, Datchuk & more! PLUS free tools (LIFTER & CLIFTER)! 🖋️ bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... 📝 bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... #WritingMatters

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

📢 PA educators, families—everyone! Reading is a right. Urge leaders to pass SB700/HB684 & fund $100M for literacy. Kids can’t wait. Act now to close the gap & secure PA’s future. 💬 Send a message in seconds: mstr.app/8dd50c4c-8b5... 📚 #LiteracyMatters

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Tell PA Leaders: Don’t Leave Our Kids—and Our Future—Behind | Teach Plus

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🌞Week 7 of #SummerSkillSaturdays = a deep dive into semantics/vocabulary! Explore 6 powerhouse resources on explicit routines, SWI, morphemes & more! Infographic👉 bit.ly/KastnerWeek7... | Full post👉 bit.ly/Kastner-Full... #SemanticSaturdayStrategies

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

📚 Week 6 of #SummerSkillSaturdays is here! Summarization boosts comprehension (effect size = .79). Explore 6 top tools to teach it: infographic 👉 bit.ly/Kastner-Week... + full guide 👉 bit.ly/Kastner-Full... #GetTheGIST

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It’s Toolkit Tuesday! Boost reading comprehension with the GIST Toolkit from Great Middle Schools—research-based strategies, examples, & organizers to help grades 4–9 students grasp and express what they read.📚 greatmiddleschools.org/toolkits/rea...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Week 5 of #SummerSkillsSaturdays highlights 6 must-see resources on Structured Literacy, featuring Dr. Spear-Swerling’s article + webcast, IDA & Cox Campus guides, infographics & more! Infographic: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... Details: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Thank you to the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) and to all the California educators who attended my session today for the California Literacy Conference! This was my third year presenting at this incredible literacy conference, and it is always an honor!!

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It’s a Marvelous Monday to dig deeper into syntax & sentence structure! 🧠📚 Explore 3 powerful resources from Literacy How & Keys to Literacy + my infographic & links to boost your practice! ➡️ bit.ly/Kastner-MM-S...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It's Syntax & Sentences Saturday! This week’s Summer Skill Saturday features 6 powerful syntax resources—lessons, presentations & more! Dive into the infographic for all the details: bit.ly/45o7K7q #SyntaxMatters #LiteracyInstruction

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hello Friends, There was a request to create the infographic I created of MTSU's, 5 Common Reading Errors and How You Can Help, with a white background. If you would like this version, you can access it here: bit.ly/Kastner-Whit...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

It’s beginning! What an honor to join the Wyoming Department of Education once again for the Embracing Literacy conference. They have quotes all over the tables and I think the one I am posting suits me best.

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Week 3 of #SummerSkillsSaturdays = Secondary Literacy Success! Explore 67 PD sessions & a national resource hub to support upper elementary–HS. ☀️Dive into PaTTAN & The Reading League resources! Padlet: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... PDF: bit.ly/SSS-W3-Secon...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Pennsylvania Department of Education has taken down and removed the lists they posted yesterday, as required by Act 135 of 2024: Structured Literacy.

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Marvelous Monday resource from MTSU’s Dyslexia Center! 📘 Check out Decoding Tips for Parents: 5 Common Word Reading Errors and How to Help—great for families & educators. Explore more at dyslexia.mtsu.edu/ebooks/ + see my infographic: ✨https://bit.ly/3Fx6rIM

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

PA Educators, Curious about Pennsylvania's Reading Council, established through Act 135? Check out the Reading Council committees, meeting agendas & notes below. Be sure to watch this site, the recommended lists for curricula, screening, & PL aligned to SL out this week: www.pa.gov/agencies/edu...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It’s Sight Word Saturday—Week 2 of #SummerSkillSaturdays! Explore 6 top resources on how words become sight words: from Dehaene to Miles to McCandliss. Infographic ➡️ bit.ly/43kkdYh PDF Recap ➡️ bit.ly/4kfYyGx #ScienceOfReading #Literacy

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“The 3 cueing approach to support early word recognition ignores 40 years of overwhelming evidence that orthographic mapping involves the formation of letter sound connections to bond spelling, pronunciation, and meaning of specific words in memory” (see Ehri, 2014), in Petscher et al., (2020). p.6.

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

To watch the recording of the outstanding webinar from edWeb, Orthographic Mapping: Making Words Stick, w/ Molly Ness & Dr. Katie Pace Miles click on the link below & be sure not to miss their related book from Scholastic! I pre-ordered mine & can't wait! Watch here: media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Webinar Alert!! Tomorrow!! What an opportunity to learn from the authors of: Making Words Stick: A Four-Step Instructional Routine to Power Up Orthographic Mapping, by Molly Ness and Dr. Katie Pace Miles! Register through edWeb at this link: home.edweb.net/webinar/teac...

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Orthographic Mapping: How to Make Words Stick - edWeb

Learn how readers embed words into their long-term memories and the decoding and spelling instructions to facilitate this process.

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Welcome to Summer Skill Saturdays! Each Saturday, I will share a literacy resource. 1st up, the Meadow Center’s instructional sequence for teacher feedback to student’s decoding errors in text reading. Research brief here: bit.ly/3ZwiRHq The PDF of the infographic I created here: bit.ly/4kwoFZw

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“Handwriting is not a mechanical skill but rather a written language skill at the subword level of language that enables the transcription of sound & morpheme units into spelling written words, which, alone & w/other words, enables the translation of ideas into written sentences” (Wolf & Berninger)

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? We analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: www.rastlelab.com/post/what-ca...

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What can children learn about morphology from reading for fun?

A key part of becoming a skilled reader is understanding how words are built — that is, how small parts of words that carry meaning come together to form words. For example, the word unhappy is made u...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A companion to Linda Farrell's exemplary blog, First Rule: Keep Your Eyes on the Words, the blog, How to Help Students Keep Their Eyes on the Words, offers practical instructional strategies that do just that! Read all about it here: bit.ly/3ZtgKEn or access the infographic here: bit.ly/44ML4xs

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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research published in @psychscience.bsky.social shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I’m thrilled to speak at the 9th Annual Conference of The Reading League this October in Chicago! Join me for my breakout session: Integrate, Don’t Isolate! Linguistic Bridges That Connect Sounds, Symbols, and Meaning in Early Literacy. @thereadingleague.org

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It’s a beautiful day in Harrisburg , PA to advocate for literacy for all ! It’s Capital Day! Right outside the capital there is a bench with the following statement,”Knowledge is the only foundation on which republics can stand.” Stevens A fitting statement to kick off this important day !

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Thank you for the shout-out @spiraledu.bsky.social‬ !

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

PA Senate Bill 700 passed through the Senate Education Committee today!!

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

22 hours straight of travel ✈️ Alaska, Seattle, 🏠Home! #AlaskaEducatorsItIsWorthEveryMinute ⏰

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There is a corrected version of our article online today! This correction is thanks to a literacy specialist across the country who read the article and noticed an error. I'm so grateful for bright, engaged educators who make my work better! Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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What’s in a Word? Analyzing Students’ Oral Reading Fluency to Inform Instructional Decision-Making - Jessica R. Toste, Sally K. Fluhler, Emily A. Farris, Brennan W. Chandler, 2025

Students with reading disabilities require instruction and intensive intervention targeted to their current learning needs. Through data-based instruction, educ...

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

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Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This Department for Education short course on ‘Supporting reading in secondary school’ is an excellent free resource with useful video to build understanding for this crucial area: www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Dr. Pam Kastner @liv2learnliteracy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What an incredible resource!! Thank you!!! Congratulations on the new baby girl, too!

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

Dinner with Canadian literacy friends, Kim Lockhart, and Melanie Brethour, and literacy legend, Angie Hanlin!! #TogetherWeCan # TogetherWeWill #untileveryonecanread

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

Mount Saint Joseph University Reading Science Program professors, our doctoral graduates, and our doctoral candidates at The Reading League Summit! # MSJProud @thereadingleague.org

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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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