World Literacy Day is a great day to celebrate Calgary Reads Big Book Sale and all the amazing dandelion seed partners. With The Owerko Centre Dr. Susan Graham

Sold a Story, Episode 5, drops tomorrow. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ "I would say nine times out of ten our customers came to us. I never did hard sells. Never had to."

Sold a Story, Episode 5. Tomorrow. "Do you ever remember asking – is there evidence behind this program?" "No, we just assumed that if someone was writing a curriculum and our school district was buying it... I assumed that it was backed by research." features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

If you've been following Emily Hanford's Sold A Story, you'll have heard the quote about Marie Clay and her refusal to change Reading Recovery. That email was to me from Bob Sweet and it appears on P93 of Reading for Life. Online course sale til Nov 24. lifelongliteracy.com/course/reading…

Our podcast, Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, is available wherever you get your podcasts. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

One more preprint before year end: For words with multiple meanings (e.g., state), we examine concreteness of the different word meanings acquired across the school years and find they become increasingly abstract, w/ Emiko Muraki Lorraine Reggin & Carissa Feddema psyarxiv.com/4tahj/

During Lorraine Reggin’s Keynote presentation #teachers played menti together, as part of “Robust and Explicit Vocabulary Instruction in the Classroom: Closing the Vocabulary Gap”! How do we learn abstract words… fascinating and fun #learninganddevelopment #AISCA_AB

Huge thanks to our keynote speakers Dr. John lMighton and Lorraine Reggin, and all our breakout session leaders for an incredible day filled with #greatlearning and fun! #AISCA_AB #educatedchoices

So grateful to our generous community for making this happen

We've got a bonus episode of Sold a Story coming next month. In the meantime, we're going to be putting our previous documentaries about reading on the Sold a Story podcast feed. First up is Hard to Read from 2017. It'll be in your podcast feed tomorrow. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

#openaccess “The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that [literacy] skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero” Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa #structuredliteracy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

7 everyday ways to foster children's math and literacy skills to avoid 'summer slide' learning loss theconversation.com/7-everyday-way… via The Conversation Canada Dr. Sheri Madigan (she/her)

Out today: New work from the Language Processing Lab, lead by the brilliant Emiko Muraki

Word meanings are not static: new senses are acquired across development, and tend to be increasingly abstract. New work now available on line, lead by Emiko Muraki and Lorraine Reggin: bit.ly/45iqgdM

New content: Lorraine Reggin, Franco, L. E. G., @OHorchak, Labrecque, D., Nadia Lana, Rio, L., & Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco (2023). Consensus Paper: Situated and Embodied Language Acquisition. Journal of Cognition, 6(1): 63, pp. 1–16. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.308

Our initial attempt to tackle the relationship between situated and embodied cognition. Led Lorraine Reggin and in collaboration with a wonderful group of ECRs!

Congrats to Lorraine Reggin for a successful PhD defense on a snowy day U Calgary. Stellar examining committee, including Lesly Wade-Woolley Brae Anne McArthur Dr. Sheri Madigan (she/her) Dr. Susan Graham and Gabrielle Wilcox.

W/Alex Cristia +11 more great coauth’s , we asked what predicts how much 👶🗣️in daily life. we answered w/LENA data: A machine learning algo (🤖) took in kid-centered audio, & spit out estimates of who’s talking, when, & for how long.

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My son's grade 6 classroom has 37 students in it. My other son's grade 8 classroom has 36 students. This is unacceptable. Do better! #CBE #CBCCalgary #AlbertaLearning #Alberta_UCP #AlbertaNDP