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🦀If you are a teacher in Virginia, STOP what yo

🦀If you are a teacher in Virginia, STOP what you are doing! If you're not in Virginia, I think you're going to want to hear this anyway!

👇Comment "trouble" below and I'll DM the 🔗to listen!

📚In this episode, Mike Crusco joins me as we discuss the problems with the newest universal screener in Virginia-the Virginia Language and Literacy Screener (VALLSS).

📖While the statewide universal screener, PALS, certainly needed to be updated, there are still several problems with the new screener that need to be addressed. This episode is specific for the Virginia assessment, but is useful for all educators as many states are passing literacy acts with specific requirements.

⏺️In this episode, Mike and I discuss:

📍What VALLSS is and how it has changed from PALS,
📍Why VALLSS is NOT a universal screener, despite the claim that it is,
📍Why the information is useful but not necessary,
📍and what we hope will change.

↗️Mike and I both believe that the Virginia Literacy Act and VALLSS were created in good faith, but there are places we can and should improve.

😍If you're a teacher in Virginia, this is a must-listen. If you're a teacher outside of Virginia, use this episode to guide you in the future as new legislation comes through wherever you live! Tag a friend who needs to hear.

👇Comment "trouble" below and I'll DM the 🔗to listen!

#universalscreener #assessment #readingteacher #wecandobetter

📚David Kilpatrick was one of the very first peo

📚David Kilpatrick was one of the very first people I read when I entered the world of structured literacy. When I read about phonemic awareness, I remember thinking I had finally found the magic wand to solve my reading troubles.

🪄It took a few years, but I finally realized that there is no magic wand when it comes to teaching reading, and the ideas about phonemic awareness that have been floating around aren't actually rooted in research.

❓What does the research say? We know from the National Reading Panel and other research a few things:

📌segmenting and blending are the most important skills to teach
📌10-15 minutes a day of oral-only phonemic awareness instruction is unnecessary
📌The more skills you teach at one time, the less effective the instruction is
📌We don't have evidence to support a need for teaching advanced phonemic awareness skills (adding, subtracting, substituting, deleting
📌There's actual evidence to support some proficient readers struggle with advanced phonemic awareness tasks.

❓So where does that leave us? We teach segmenting and blending in short, targeted ways, like asking students to segment and blends words with a particular phonics patterns before we teach the sound-symbol relationship.

😍And you KNOW I've worked to make all our lives easier by creating phoneme lists that are just print and go. I keep these lists in a binder right by my lessons because I can pull them out at any point, choose a skill, and practice the kind of phonemic awareness instruction that will move my students forward.

🙀If you need these lists too, comment "target" and I'll DM the link to purchase!

#phonemicawareness #phonemes #structuredliteracy #readingteacher

📗A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in

📗A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a language. For example, -ed is a morpheme that denotes past tense. Struct is a morpheme that means “to build.” A word can be a single morpheme (like Virginia), or have multiple morphemes (like construction).

📙Morphology is the study of those morphemes.

❓But what is morphological awareness?

🤩Morphological awareness is “the ability to reflect on, analyze, and manipulate the morphemic elements in words”(Carlisle et. al., 2010, p.266).

🗣️For me, the easiest way to understand this was to think of phonemic awareness. Morphological awareness is like phonemic awareness, except we are looking at tasks at the morpheme level instead of the phoneme level.

📌When a child can recognize “structure” has something to do with building because they had learned “struct,” that is morphological awareness.

📌When a kindergartner says “I goed to school,” that is an example of morphological awareness (even if it is wrong) because they are understanding they can manipulate words to indicate tense.

📌When a child can pull off prefixes and suffixes to get to the root of a word, that’s morphological awareness.

❓Was this helpful? Make sure you save this reel for when you need it next! (And you know I would love a share!)

#morphology #morpheme #morphemicawareness

📚Last year, I sat on my district's textbook ado

📚Last year, I sat on my district's textbook adoption committee.

🗣️And let me tell you, those salespeople are GOOD. They promise you the world on a silver platter, and there's so much materials and information that you can't possibly read through and evaluate ALL of it.

🙀So I'm curious: what has been your experience with adoption a textbook? Have they overpromised and underdelivered? Let me know in the comments!

#teacherfunny #itdbefunnierifitwasnttrue

🖨️In the past, I've talked about my favorite

🖨️In the past, I've talked about my favorite decodables, from the best printed ones to the best for word/sentence level.

📅Over the past few years, however, there has been a huge surge in the number of decodables out there. Before, the resources were limited: now it seems like there are too many to even make a choice.

💻So in this week's blog post, I'm sharing my favorite printed decodables. I share:

📖Aligning to your scope and sequence
📖Charge Into Reading decodables from @chargemommybooks
📖Decodables from @justrightreader
📖Decodable books and a NEW decodable product from @syllasense
📖 Decodables for older readers from @phonicbooks
📖Questions to ask when considering a decodable text.

🛍️ I've intentionally chosen decodables from mostly small businesses, mainly from women. Why? Well, besides the obvious of supporting smaller businesses, it tends to be these publishers that get it right.

💵While mega-million dollar corporations are adding on decodables to be trendy, these individuals and small business have made it their life's mission to get it right. Why WOULDN'T I promote them over anyone else?

❓Ready to find your next favorite decodables? Comment "decode" below and I'll DM the 🔗to the blog post!

#decodablereaders #decodablebooks #decodable #decoablestories

🔡Teaching the foundational skills of letter sou

🔡Teaching the foundational skills of letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonics is not easy, but IT IS straightforward.

🔤I can go through a specified sequence to teach skills, ensuring mastery of a particular skill and moving through the next.

🧠But comprehension isn't so straightforward. And, like a house of cards, it can collapse at any moment.

📚There are so many factors that go into comprehension, like background knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, literacy knowledge, syntax, etc.

📚To make it even trickier, comprehension can fall apart at any point, from the very first card you lay down (the word level), through to the entire house of cards (the text level).

📚As teachers, we have to anticipate those challenges and design our instruction carefully, looking at each text and thinking through before, during, and after reading activities.

🙅‍♀️It is NOT easy, but there are some ways we can perhaps be more thoughtful about the way we design our comprehension instruction.

❓Want to learn more? Comment "cards" and I'll DM the link to my free webinar on Improving Comprehension (Even if you have to follow a basal!)

#readingcomprehension #teachingreading #readingteacher #readingintervention #comprehension

🔓Did you miss out on Unlocking SOR’s recent v

🔓Did you miss out on Unlocking SOR’s recent virtual conference? If so, this is your LAST CHANCE to purchase access to the conference.

🚪Comment REPLAY below and we will DM you the 🔗to purchase.

⏺️Once you purchase access, you get to watch and rewatch the recordings through December 31, 2024.

♥️ Plus, you get all the freebies and a certificate of attendance.

📅Our K-2 topics include:
📌The Power of Cumulative Practice
📌Decoding and Encoding Made Simple: Routines for Successful Phonics Instruction
📌From Assessment to Skilled Reading
📌Sentence Success for Little Learners

📅Our 3-5 topics include:
📌Designing and Delivering Intervention in Upper Elementary
📌Unlocking the Power of Morphology
📌The Role of Scaffolds in Structured Literacy Lessons
📌How Writing Supports the Science of Reading

❓Ready to start watching as some of your favorite science of reading gurus make teaching based in science easier? Comment REPLAY and we will DM you the 🔗to purchase and start watching immediately!

#unlockingsor #scienceofreading #readingscience #professionaldevelopment

🔗Word chaining is one of my favorite activities

🔗Word chaining is one of my favorite activities: not only is it effective, but the kids love it too.

🔠In a word chain, you start with one word. Then, you ask children to change one sound each time, creating a new word. It's the perfect blend of phonemic awareness and phonics.

❓The best part? I've created 72 of them based off phonics skills, from CVC through digraphs, blends, magic e, vowel teams, and more. So you don't have to make them yourself!

👇Comment "chaining" below and I"ll DM the 🔗to check it out!

#phonics #wordchaining #teachingreading

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