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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

What is book expansion? How can expanding books to include multiple languages work to combat linguistic imperialism? This piece, from our most recent Special Issue explains the power and importance of expanding books in the classroom. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This Teaching and Learning in Action piece, taken from our most recent Special Issue, investigates the benefits of recognising and building on Spanish-English bilingual children's home literacy practices in the classroom. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

From our most recent Special Issue, this piece explores the ways book expansion can enrich the learning experience and support linguistic diversity. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This Teaching and Learning in Action piece explores the beauty of Blackness from a Jamaican perspective in the U.S., and studies the effects of pro-Black pedagogy in classrooms. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In this Action & Learning piece, from our most recent Special Issue, Muñoz and Babino propose a vision of bilingual teachers expanding biliteracy by first healing themselves. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This is my stack as I get ready for Kate Frankel's talk at the Adolescent Literacy Summit on Friday. Still time to register here reading.education.uc...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Thrilled to introduce the student panel for the UConn Neag School of Education Adolescent Literacy Summit on May 16th! Come see what these Manchester Youth Commissioners have to say about reading, writing and literacy development in and out of school.

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The Asset-Based Integrative View of Reading (Gabriel & Lopez, 2025) elaborates Duke & Cartright's "Active View" by considering how all the language and cognitive processes are actually accomplished. See asset-based pedagogy and self-determination theory at work here & at the May 16th summit!

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This Teaching and Learning Guide piece from the archives investigates how making film trailers for books can improve students' visualisation strategies. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi... @crodriguezmojica.bsky.social @@ilatoday.bsky.social @navangovender.bsky.social

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Another reminder that arts and electives can be the best reading intervention. #re-mediate "Adding text with highlighted phrase boundaries enhanced the effect of readers theatre on two aspects of prosody: expression and phrasing." @ilatoday.bsky.social

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This Teaching and Learning in Action piece, from our recent Special Issue, offers powerful insight into using picture books as a tool for exploring critical translingual literacies. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi... @crodriguezmojica.bsky.social @ilatoday.bsky.social @navangovender.bsky.social

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Join all of us! reading.education.uc...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Love getting questions about the Adolescent Literacy Summit because I get to brag about the speakers!!! reading.education.uc...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

and the wave of abstracts that came in from our current call for papers! www.literacyworldwid... 3/3

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

And, I'm thrilled about many other trends we are seeing, especially those focused on empowering literacy growth among our youngest learners like this one! doi.org/10.1002/trtr... Teaching Writing Skills Alongside the Writing Process: Interactive Writing in the Prekindergarten Classroom 2/3

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

As editor of the @ilatoday 's K-6 journal, The Reading Teacher, I keep seeing submissions related to phonemic awareness that simply re-introduce the concept with no new research or strategies. It's happened 4-5 times in the last few months. I wonder what this trend means for authors. 1/3

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Counting down to the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th. The Matthew Effect, snowball cycle of exponential, self-extending growth - or its opposite - can be interrupted (and reversed!) at any point in the cycle. 1/2

Cycle of reading success and failure based on practice leading to exposure, understanding and confidence.

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'm counting down to the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th with some of the big ideas you can look forward to learning more about ;) Here's #1. It's a flip of Shanahan's 2008 triangle that has disciplinary learning reserved only for the tippy top. It's for everyone. 1/2

upside-down pyramid with discipline-specific texts on top supported by engagement and motivation.

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In this article from our most recent Special Issue, Jennipher C. K. Frazier recounts her experience of being a literacy coach working in a 'eurocratic mandated curriculum'. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi... @crodriguezmojica.bsky.social @ilatoday.bsky.social

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Next in the spotlight is this 'Teaching and Learning in Action' piece from Volume 77, Issue 6, looking at how digital technologies can be used to support emerging bilingual learners. Read it here: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We want to start spotlighting articles, both from our current issues and from the archive, that showcase how empowering and emancipatory practices can transform teaching. We begin with this 'Research in Action' piece from our latest special issue: ila.onlinelibrary.wi...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

May 16th, Hartford CT see. you. there. reading.education.uconn.edu/adolescent-l...

poster advertising the Adolescent Literacy Summit on May 16th in Hartford with art by 58Creativity showing a design based on the ASL sign for "processing"

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our poster image is used with permission from the artist, 58Creativity, capturing the idea of "processing" in ASL. Come see what's in process at the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th reading.education.uconn.edu/adolescent-l... @uconnneag

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Navan Govender @navangovender.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Reading Teacher Journal co-editors: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1936...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Getting ready for the Adolescent Literacy Summit in Hartford on May 16th? Here's what's in @JT Torres my.wlu.edu/harte-center... 's stack as we prep! reading.education.uconn.edu/adolescent-l... @uconnneag

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/03/2025

“To control the country’s education system is, in no uncertain terms, to control the country’s future,” Clay Risen writes: theatln.tc/EogIGNtI

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 05/03/2025

If you don't want to watch the entire video, click on the description for the full list of those who donated to Trump and P25. youtu.be/e5ApF-hBy1Y?...

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Companies That Donated To PROJECT 2025!

YouTube video by Tell The People with Sunny & W1

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Navan Govender @navangovender.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Check out the new themed issue from The Reading Teacher! ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19362714... @uklitassociation.bsky.social #CriticalLiteracy #literacymatters #literacyteacher

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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My thoughts on cuts to science via NIH and IES It is: ILLEGAL: the funding has been congressionally mandated IDIOTIC: the multiplier effects of R&D are big in the moment (local econs) and huge in the long run (innovation) IMMORAL: knowledge is—hear me out—good; chaos and destruction are bad

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

a headline: Donald Trump turns away in disgust as Elon Musk's son picks his nose: Watch www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"The HCC opened in 1941, was a pedagogical experiment that addressed the literacy needs of African Americans in a country at war. It combined under one roof a suite of studios and laboratories dedicated to individual and classroom instruction in writing, speech, radio, journalism, and theater"

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

revisiting Susan Kates's piece on the Hampton Communication Center (HCC) from her piece: Literacy, Voting Rights, and the Citizenship Schools in the South, 1957-1970 free to read here. www.jstor.org/stable/44806...

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm so sorry someone pushed your kid. That's awful. Good for you!!!

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

ah. good point. I apologize. There will be no more of that.

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

People are on here saying both sides are vindicated and they're reposting the same chart! The certainty is silly.

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Rachael Gabriel @rachegabriel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

And yet, the presumed era of BL (2000's-2019) is the period of growth on the NAEP. And now that we have laws mandating SOR, we see...the opposite. I don't think there's a causal relationship here. But it's fun how ready folx are to blame whatever reading approach they don't like.

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