☀️ Summer Skill Saturdays – Week 14! Focus: Morphology & Structured Word Inquiry. Explore a podcast, must-read books, Dr. Kelly Grillo’s infographic, & the Morphology Project 🇦🇺 Full narrative ➡️ bit.ly/Kastner-Full... Resources ➡️ bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-...

Summer Skills Saturday – Week 12! 6 expert sessions w/ facilitation guides: Archer, Hunter, Hennessy, Van Cleave, and Gillis. Build skills in SoR, word recognition, comprehension, morphology & syntax. Access it all here: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... #ScienceOfReading

Week 11 of #SummerSkillSaturdays is here! ☀️ Curated vids, articles & guides to kick off PD season right! 🎯 Topics: #StructuredLiteracy, #ExplicitInstruction & How the Brain Learns to Read. 📥 Dive in: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... #LiteracyLeadership #ReadingScience

Goodbye beautiful & friendly, Fargo! Thank you to the educators of ND who are so eager and engaged to learn about the science of reading! Now it’s Alaska or bust, a bit of 2nd home for me! I am returning to learn with teachers who have become like family. #livingingratitude

Week 10 of #SummerSkillSaturdays celebrates #ExplicitInstruction & routines after an amazing week w/ Dr. Anita Archer! 💡 Explore resources: 📊 bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-Week10-Infographic-InstructionalRoutines 📖 bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-Week10-InstructionalRoutines-FullNarrative

☀️Week 9 of #SummerSkillSaturdays is a #BookStudyBonanza! 📚 6 book studies on Structured Literacy, Dyslexia, ELs, Comprehension & more—with resources & recordings! 🖼️ Infographic: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... 📖 Full Narrative: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-...

Week 8 of #SummerSkillSaturdays: ✍️Writing Wonders! Boost handwriting with top resources from Graham, Van Cleave, Datchuk & more! PLUS free tools (LIFTER & CLIFTER)! 🖋️ bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... 📝 bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... #WritingMatters

📢 PA educators, families—everyone! Reading is a right. Urge leaders to pass SB700/HB684 & fund $100M for literacy. Kids can’t wait. Act now to close the gap & secure PA’s future. 💬 Send a message in seconds: mstr.app/8dd50c4c-8b5... 📚 #LiteracyMatters

🌞Week 7 of #SummerSkillSaturdays = a deep dive into semantics/vocabulary! Explore 6 powerhouse resources on explicit routines, SWI, morphemes & more! Infographic👉 bit.ly/KastnerWeek7... | Full post👉 bit.ly/Kastner-Full... #SemanticSaturdayStrategies

📚 Week 6 of #SummerSkillSaturdays is here! Summarization boosts comprehension (effect size = .79). Explore 6 top tools to teach it: infographic 👉 bit.ly/Kastner-Week... + full guide 👉 bit.ly/Kastner-Full... #GetTheGIST

It’s Toolkit Tuesday! Boost reading comprehension with the GIST Toolkit from Great Middle Schools—research-based strategies, examples, & organizers to help grades 4–9 students grasp and express what they read.📚 greatmiddleschools.org/toolkits/rea...

Week 5 of #SummerSkillsSaturdays highlights 6 must-see resources on Structured Literacy, featuring Dr. Spear-Swerling’s article + webcast, IDA & Cox Campus guides, infographics & more! Infographic: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... Details: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-...

Thank you to the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) and to all the California educators who attended my session today for the California Literacy Conference! This was my third year presenting at this incredible literacy conference, and it is always an honor!!

It’s a Marvelous Monday to dig deeper into syntax & sentence structure! 🧠📚 Explore 3 powerful resources from Literacy How & Keys to Literacy + my infographic & links to boost your practice! ➡️ bit.ly/Kastner-MM-S...

It's Syntax & Sentences Saturday! This week’s Summer Skill Saturday features 6 powerful syntax resources—lessons, presentations & more! Dive into the infographic for all the details: bit.ly/45o7K7q #SyntaxMatters #LiteracyInstruction

Hello Friends, There was a request to create the infographic I created of MTSU's, 5 Common Reading Errors and How You Can Help, with a white background. If you would like this version, you can access it here: bit.ly/Kastner-Whit...

It’s beginning! What an honor to join the Wyoming Department of Education once again for the Embracing Literacy conference. They have quotes all over the tables and I think the one I am posting suits me best.

Week 3 of #SummerSkillsSaturdays = Secondary Literacy Success! Explore 67 PD sessions & a national resource hub to support upper elementary–HS. ☀️Dive into PaTTAN & The Reading League resources! Padlet: bit.ly/Kastner-SSS-... PDF: bit.ly/SSS-W3-Secon...

The Pennsylvania Department of Education has taken down and removed the lists they posted yesterday, as required by Act 135 of 2024: Structured Literacy.

Marvelous Monday resource from MTSU’s Dyslexia Center! 📘 Check out Decoding Tips for Parents: 5 Common Word Reading Errors and How to Help—great for families & educators. Explore more at dyslexia.mtsu.edu/ebooks/ + see my infographic: ✨https://bit.ly/3Fx6rIM

PA Educators, Curious about Pennsylvania's Reading Council, established through Act 135? Check out the Reading Council committees, meeting agendas & notes below. Be sure to watch this site, the recommended lists for curricula, screening, & PL aligned to SL out this week: www.pa.gov/agencies/edu...

It’s Sight Word Saturday—Week 2 of #SummerSkillSaturdays! Explore 6 top resources on how words become sight words: from Dehaene to Miles to McCandliss. Infographic ➡️ bit.ly/43kkdYh PDF Recap ➡️ bit.ly/4kfYyGx #ScienceOfReading #Literacy

“The 3 cueing approach to support early word recognition ignores 40 years of overwhelming evidence that orthographic mapping involves the formation of letter sound connections to bond spelling, pronunciation, and meaning of specific words in memory” (see Ehri, 2014), in Petscher et al., (2020). p.6.

To watch the recording of the outstanding webinar from edWeb, Orthographic Mapping: Making Words Stick, w/ Molly Ness & Dr. Katie Pace Miles click on the link below & be sure not to miss their related book from Scholastic! I pre-ordered mine & can't wait! Watch here: media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...

Webinar Alert!! Tomorrow!! What an opportunity to learn from the authors of: Making Words Stick: A Four-Step Instructional Routine to Power Up Orthographic Mapping, by Molly Ness and Dr. Katie Pace Miles! Register through edWeb at this link: home.edweb.net/webinar/teac...

Welcome to Summer Skill Saturdays! Each Saturday, I will share a literacy resource. 1st up, the Meadow Center’s instructional sequence for teacher feedback to student’s decoding errors in text reading. Research brief here: bit.ly/3ZwiRHq The PDF of the infographic I created here: bit.ly/4kwoFZw

“Handwriting is not a mechanical skill but rather a written language skill at the subword level of language that enables the transcription of sound & morpheme units into spelling written words, which, alone & w/other words, enables the translation of ideas into written sentences” (Wolf & Berninger)

What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? We analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: www.rastlelab.com/post/what-ca...

A companion to Linda Farrell's exemplary blog, First Rule: Keep Your Eyes on the Words, the blog, How to Help Students Keep Their Eyes on the Words, offers practical instructional strategies that do just that! Read all about it here: bit.ly/3ZtgKEn or access the infographic here: bit.ly/44ML4xs

Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research published in @psychscience.bsky.social shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.

I’m thrilled to speak at the 9th Annual Conference of The Reading League this October in Chicago! Join me for my breakout session: Integrate, Don’t Isolate! Linguistic Bridges That Connect Sounds, Symbols, and Meaning in Early Literacy. @thereadingleague.org

Capital Day in Harrisburg, PA! #UntilALLCanRead

It’s a beautiful day in Harrisburg , PA to advocate for literacy for all ! It’s Capital Day! Right outside the capital there is a bench with the following statement,”Knowledge is the only foundation on which republics can stand.” Stevens A fitting statement to kick off this important day !

Thank you for the shout-out @spiraledu.bsky.social‬ !

PA Senate Bill 700 passed through the Senate Education Committee today!!

22 hours straight of travel ✈️ Alaska, Seattle, 🏠Home! #AlaskaEducatorsItIsWorthEveryMinute ⏰

There is a corrected version of our article online today! This correction is thanks to a literacy specialist across the country who read the article and noticed an error. I'm so grateful for bright, engaged educators who make my work better! Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?

This Department for Education short course on ‘Supporting reading in secondary school’ is an excellent free resource with useful video to build understanding for this crucial area: www.gov.uk/government/p...

What an incredible resource!! Thank you!!! Congratulations on the new baby girl, too!

Dinner with Canadian literacy friends, Kim Lockhart, and Melanie Brethour, and literacy legend, Angie Hanlin!! #TogetherWeCan # TogetherWeWill #untileveryonecanread

Mount Saint Joseph University Reading Science Program professors, our doctoral graduates, and our doctoral candidates at The Reading League Summit! # MSJProud @thereadingleague.org

So excited for this! Dr. Stephanie Stollar and Kate Winn! What a dynamic duo!!