🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

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

➡️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…

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…

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!

❤️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…

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-…

A kindergartner writing to children in PreK about what to expect in kindergarten. . . 😍😍😍

🗨️High-quality discussion is high-leverage!🗨️ Research finds that there are specific ways of facilitating discussions with students that contribute to reading comprehension growth. Learn more with #KnowledgeMatters. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Interesting to follow the literacy reporting from Wales this week. The research on cueing has not been adequately addressed in Ireland, notwithstanding the significant (optional) PD on this topic in recent years. As usual, Nell K. Duke's writing clarifies: ascd.org/el/articles/wh…

With deep apologies to Salt-N-Pepa, please join us for a one-hour session to talk about talking about text! "Student Discourse, an Unsung Hero of Reading Comprehension," hosted by #KnowledgeMatters us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

“Let’s talk about text baby!” We can’t wait for this webinar! Excited to dive into such an important discussion with Nell K. Duke, Mitchell Brookins, Ph.D. and Altagracia H Delgado along with host Kristen McQuillan! Register today: bit.ly/3MSgVCD

Tomorrow is our next webinar, “Unsung Heroes of Reading Comprehension: Student Discourse!” Don’t miss it on Monday, September 30 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Register today: bit.ly/3MSgVCD

💓

🥰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/2017080815… Here's some info about Instructional Conversations, which have been studied with MLLs: claudeg.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/…

So proud of PBS KIDS' newest show! It's the first PBS KIDS series to feature central characters on the autism spectrum. It was developed by a team that includes many individuals who are neurodiverse, & it was informed by research! ♥️#CarltheCollector

Now on that other new platform 🦋🦋 at the same handle. Hope to see you there!

My undergraduate major was linguistics, and my career is focused on early literacy, so when Hubby named my new iPhone "Phonetic. . ."

Late Friday night, the PBS Kids Ready to Learn Grant was shut down, effective immediately. This decision is bad for kids and bad for families. Let's unite across party lines to stand up for quality children’s media. Talking points and contact info here: nellkduke.org/news