
jillcole
@jillcoleky
Elementary ELA Instructional Lead
Jefferson County Public Schools
28 years in Education
Literacy Nerd, Mom of 3, wife and lover of things sparkly and fun!
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26-02-2023 20:16:26
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Timothy Shanahan Research shows that skills-based instruction fails to improve reading proficiency for many kids—and points instead to the power of background knowledge. When struggling readers know a bit about a topic before reading about it, they outperform strong readers who don't. 10/11

I put together a new recommended book list with shouts outs to Karin Chenoweth, Natalie Wexler, Daniel Willingham, Maryanne Wolf , Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social, Steven Pinker and more. planetwordmuseum.org/books-about-re…

“Early reading success is implicated in every other educational issue. If children can’t read, education is elusive.” One of my favourite articles by Jennifer Buckingham , citing the work of Pamela Snow, Kevin Wheldall AM, Robyn Wheldall and others on the mission to improve student reading



Use the data to inform your instruction and intervention. 🔢✅🧑🏫 Tune in to #LiteracyTalks S6E3 to gain more insights. readinghorizons.com/literacytalks/… Lindsay Kemeny #scienceofreading #educationpodcast #literacypodcast







Today we used TIDE (Topic, Important Details, End) from Science of Writing Instruction to write a paragraph together to conclude our unit on Farming. We are finally past using “We love…” to begin every wrap-sentence!




