The AIU's Reading Achievement Center offers research-based professional development & resources to transform & sustain effective PreK-12 literacy instruction.
Joined November 2021
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📚 @timrasinski1 watched struggling readers for 40 years. Then he noticed what everyone was missing: the bridge between knowing words and understanding them. Now his unconventional method is spreading across schools.
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Did you know... "Teaching manuscript handwriting led to improved word reading, even though only handwriting was taught, in a randomized, controlled study of low-achieving handwriters in first grade"(Berninger et al., 1997).
As cited in, Wolf, B., & Berninger, V. (2018). In J. R. Multi-Modal Handwriting Instruction for Pencil and Technology Tools.Birsh & S. Carreker (Eds.), Multisensory teaching of basic language skills (4th ed., pp. 433–466). Brookes Publishing.
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Fluency Friday (AND MORE)!
Sending out a two-fer today– the “Apple Picking Song” for building fluency (and a link to the youtube video of the song), and also an “Apple Picking” word ladder for word study – phonics, spelling and vocabulary! Hope you find these resources helpful.
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Fluency Friday from @TimRasinski1
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🥰to those who attended the #KnowledgeMatters session on Student Discourse & Reading Comp. Here's the meta-analysis I ref'd on text discussion: web.archive.org/web/20170808… Here's some info about Instructional Conversations, which have been studied with MLLs: claudeg.people.stanford.edu/…
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🧠 Cognitive Load Theory has become increasingly popular in education, with many teachers using its principles in the classroom.
But if you're not already familiar with this theory, here's a quick guide on applying its key principles in your classroom ⬇️
innerdrive.co.uk/blog/how-to…
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Check out these 4 outstanding professional learning sessions on syntax. "Syntax is a bridge between word reading fluency and text comprehension." Dr. Margie Gillis
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🌟Students need a sentence structure to show their understanding that big ideas are connected to little moments.🌟🧵
I talk a lot about micro and macro. Everything we read and write moves between big & small; small & big. Being able to access the big idea is important.
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BiG NeWs: This resource has been a labor of love developed for any and all district leaders
who want to get a better understanding of how curriculum implementation is going and learn about the holistic, big picture of the implementation journey across multiple years. – at Kingsport, TN
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This podcast with Karen Harris, one of the creators of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) with Ollie Lovell of the Education Research Reading Room, is a fascinating and essential listen ollielovell.com/karenharris/
If you are interested in effectively teaching writing, then this is a MUST listen!
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Sold a Story en español is on the Noticias Univision podcast today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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K-12 Teachers: Browse upcoming CPE courses by subject area at aiu3.net/aiu_cpe. #PAteachers #TeacherPD
