❓What if the “small-medium-large” effect sizes we use in early literacy aren’t right for this field? We derived empirical thresholds from recent PA meta-analyses. Cohen’s cutoffs fit PA but overestimate reading by ~0.2 SD. This matters for judging impact and powering trials. 🔗 tinyurl.com/6f58h5n6

Big news! 🎉 Our team at Texas A&M was awarded a $1.45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for Project ELEVATE. Over the next 5 years, we’ll support future special ed teachers with funding, mentoring, and community. Grateful to do this work. #ElevateTheProfession

Happy to share the work by Aisha Lee-Cobbins & Megan Bishop! They interviewed 2 leading voices in literacy: Dr. Nicole Patton Terry on how reading disability ID can impact Black children & low-income students, and how equity-focused policies & partnerships can help. 📖: lnkd.in/exPHcEuR

Advertise your account with a GIF #scienceofreading

Yay! Congrats, Ying, on the Taylor&Francie Award! This is so well deserved!! Thank you to the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading for supporting our early career scholars. #sssr2025

@jxjwang.bsky.social Jessie, received your message. Thanks so very much!!

I'm honored to be named a 2025 EDGES Fellow by my university @tamu.bsky.social, a program designed to honor and retain midcareer faculty. shorturl.at/dlOZj I’ll have a postdoc opening in reading research starting Fall 2026; call for applicants coming Fall/Winter 2025.

👍Grateful that our study on optimal phonemic awareness dosage is recognized among the notable education studies of 2024 by @edutopia.org 🔗 to the Edutopia article (see #10): www.edutopia.org/article/the-... 🔗 to our study: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Thanks for posting, François. Here is a link to the free full text of our study (a non-paywalled link): drive.google.com/file/d/11wI8...

Honored to receive the 2025 Taylor & Francis Award from #SSSR ! I’m thrilled—and honestly a little overwhelmed—to be recognized by a community I admire so much. Can’t wait for #SSSR2025 and all the conversations, learning, and connections ahead! 💙📚

Good morning, Coronado and San Diego! A perfect day for inline skating!💜🛼

@ying-xu.bsky.social Congratulations on your poster presentation. Excellent work! Thank you, everyone, for stopping by at @ying-xu.bsky.social 's poster and asking thought provoking questions which Ying will incorporate in her paper on this topic. #pcrc2025

Megan Bishop and I wrote an article in the form of an interview with Dr. Steve Graham. Dr. G shares insights on defining and identifying dysgraphia, effective teaching strategies for handwriting difficulties, and future directions in writing research #dysgraphia www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Heading to #PCRC2025 next week? Come chat with me and @ying-xu.bsky.social about all things #reading #research! We’ll be presenting two posters—stop by and say hi.

Heading to #PCRC2025 next week? Come chat with me and @ying-xu.bsky.social about all things #reading #research! We’ll be presenting two posters—stop by and say hi.

#DYSLEXIA AND #GENETICS 🧬~70% genetic influence confirmed by twin studies 🧬no single "dyslexia gene"; many small genetic effects contribute 🧬shared genetic risks with ADHD, dyscalculia, and DLD 🧬GWAS studies identify multiple associated genetic variants, improving riskprediction 🔗 shorturl.at/dZ1nJ

An NIH grant I was on as a postdoc helped us understand why some children develop reading difficulties while others don't. Our current NIH grant examines whether Spanish-speaking bilingual learners in 🇺🇸 struggle with reading due to a reading disability or language differences btwn English&Spanish.

I’ve never been more thankful to myself for annotating the code appropriately and thoroughly. Three years later, I can remember everything we did. I am thankful to @cghlewis.bsky.social for the annotations tip.

What's been most helpful to me in terms of generating ideas is reading beyond my discipline (i.e., reading research). Medical research is so thought provoking to me. What hasn't been working for me from the list of rules stated below is using reference software like Zotero or Endnote.

We addressed the classic 🐔or the🥚question: Do children who read more become better readers, or do better readers simply choose to read more? Our findings revealed that reading proficiency primarily drove the amount of reading in children rather than the other way around. 🔗 shorturl.at/NVifl 1/2

Dyslexia isn't linked to greater creativity. A meta-analysis of 20 studies found no consistent advantage, debunking the myth of dyslexia as a "creative gift." #Dyslexia #Creativity #MetaAnalysis Read more: shorturl.at/uZkAj

In our study, we asked how much time was needed to teach #phonemicawareness (PA) optimally. Results showed that PA instruction effects improved with increasing dosage up to 10.20 hours of instruction (max effect = 0.74), after which the effects declined (=progress got slower). 🔗 shorturl.at/SGqJn

🙏, @jillbarshay.bsky.social, 4highlighting our meta-analyses on phonemic awareness (PA) in your report. We investigated the optimal dosage of PA instruction for preK-Grade1 students and are thrilled to share our insights with the education community. 🔗 bit.ly/4crkhHu 🔗 to full text: See my CV

Happy Winter Solstice!🌚🌞 December 21, 2024.

I am continuing to share some older tweets. Link to the editorial of the special issue Rick Wagner and I published in the Scientific Studies of Reading journal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The NRP Report (2000) found that independent silent reading may not be the most efficient use of instructional time. In our study, we replicated the finding. We found that independent reading didn't contribute meaningfully to improved reading outcomes. 🔗 shorturl.at/ZeBJz 🔗 shorturl.at/BZBpt

Here is a quote from the below appended text. I have experienced this myself multiple times. I hope people are becoming more aware about their biases. "She said something I hadn’t considered: “Sometimes people struggle to believe something said with an unfamiliar accent.”"

Looking to follow some reading scientists and some practitioners who are interested in their work? I've got you covered with this starter pack! #EduSky

Continuing with reposting some older tweets... Like all things in academia, awards are a team effort. Forever grateful to my mentors for their support! This one’s from 2023, but it means the most to me. @psychscience.bsky.social #RisingStar2023

Starting with a blue sky where I enjoy it the most - on the ski slopes.