In this pair of Molly of Denali stories, children (a) work to figure out where a meteorite has landed and (b) work to convince a team to change their mascot to one is not offensive. In both cases, guess what helps? Informational text! 📚💻💗mediaplayer.whro.org/program/molly-…

❤️Laura Bornfreund 's blog post this week on her visit to EnCompass Academy in Oakland, CA, which is implementing our OER Great First Eight Curriculum in #kindergarten . Includes a link to video clips with more on the teachers' perspectives on the curriculum.💗newamerica.org/education-poli…

Way back in the '00s (when I was a young child🙃), I got to play a small role in Dr. Jack Mostow's 🔥🔥🔥work using speech recognition and computer adaptive technology to coach children as they read. Awesome how far this has come and excited about the next phase of development!

Who is “she”?
We can't assume that children always know what a particular pronoun refers to when reading or listening to reading. This study with children in K is one of many suggesting that teaching children to infer reference helps them get better at it:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-51…

➡️Are you in the midst of planning March is Reading Month activities? Alessandra Ward and I published an article called 'Every Month Should Be Reading Month.' Below are key points from the article. proquest.com/openview/ec74c…

🤓From one literacy nerd to another, thanks, Elizabeth!

College of EHHS Kent State Special Education Wiley Blevins, EdD Nell K. Duke

♨️Hot off the press: Study of third through fifth graders, controlling for a range of variables (though of course still need to be cautious about inferring causation), from: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… My summary of some of the findings:

Yes, University of Michigan won the national championship in🏈! AND the U of M Debate Team was national championship runner up for the third year in a row! And we just had *four* scholars named among the most influential ed scholars in the U.S! edweek.org/policy-politic… True Blue!

I saw this sticker in a store today and just had to have it 😂.

Children's brain activity looks different whether they are reading narrative or informational text--no surprise that classroom research suggests our instruction for these genres should be different too (e.g., purposes established for reading, text structures taught, ?s asked...)

This #GivingTuesday , we celebrate generosity and our ability to make collective change by giving back to our communities. ❤️

Help us continue to work towards a brighter future for every student by making a donation: donate.stand.org/a/c3-national-…

A critical aim of education is knowledge acquisition, and to acquire that knowledge, it will take an integrated approach of centering our students, the task, and the text! Listen to a great conversation between researchers and practitioners!

😟Feeling compelled to remind us all of this 2020 systematic lit review & meta-analysis of research on children’s screen use & language development. Pls see below. (There’s also the issue of adults being on screens, which I’ll tackle in a future post. . .)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

I forgot to post this morning for World Kindness Day! Felt terrible, then thought, actually, it's great to #TeachKindness any day of the year! @WeTeachKindness

🧵Given what is going around today, I think it is important to focus more broadly to think about how best to teach reading. I'm sharing 3 articles that I think do that. thereadingforum.com/what-constitut…

🙏I'm grateful to have been invited to offer my perspective on some questions going around about early literacy research & practice. In case you're interested, link to podcast here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… The pub I ref'd about cueing & prompting is here: ascd.org/el/articles/wh…

If you haven't had a chance to check out this tool yet, please do. Website is up and running!👌

Thanks for posting this again!

Congrats to all!