Katrin Jones, M.Ed. in Reading Education

Sunday’s Big Game just got a Structured Literacy upgrade! 🏈📚
Our Football Fluency FREEBIE is here, and it’s a total touchdown for small group review, sub plans, or adding a little football fun to your classroom this week!

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"The ability to allocate time & attention to the thinking skills we call comprehension!~Maryanne Wolf

Listening! POSSUM 💜 open.spotify.com/episode/7zY3...

Picture added to my slides last year & a link to one graphic organizer that I use! Students can bring Props! www.readwritethink.org/sites/defaul...

Getting ready for my annual “Warm Up To A Good Book” week. My students love sharing a favorite book after “reviewing” it by writing info. in a graphic organizer. They have the opportunity to sharpen their “book talk” skills as well— all while sipping on some hot chocolate. Marshmallows included 🤎☕️

29 High-Impact Formative Assessment Strategies These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

Here are 29 formative assessment strategies that pack a punch!

These flexible strategies reveal crucial insights about student learning (during and after your next lesson). 🤩

#assessment #EduSky

Free download: Using Board Games to Strengthen Literacy Skills. Try this simple game to help students understand how to design their own. Downloadable from the article, a sample Snakes and Ladders game.

Instead of giving kids a list of vocabulary words to memorize, you can build up their vocabulary, reading, *and* writing skills through games! 🥳

Here’s a guide, complete with a downloadable sample game to inspire your students: https://edut.to/3ZtjYYl

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Andie the Scottish Terrier

Pittsburgh Andie also saw her shadow this morning.

Here's to six more weeks of winter! 🥶

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Meet Jonah Marano (@jm_the_art_of_empowering), a 10th grader who once struggled with dyslexia and is now thriving. He sells his artwork to fund IMSE teacher training scholarships, helping more educators change students’ lives.

Read his story: imse.com/journal/arti...

#StructuredLiteracy #Dyslexia

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On the agenda for the afternoon: 2nd half of @imse-og.bsky.social Writing and Grammar Asynchronous Course!

Sentence Analysis & Dissection

assessments, and instructional insights that help educators track progress and make informed decisions.

And this is only the beginning. IMSE LAB is continuously evolving, with new tools and features coming very soon 👀

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Adding to my Canva Slides today— for a peer book study—rereading Chapter 5: “The relationship that exists between syntax and semantics cannot be overiooked as educators work at developing students' reading comprehension proficiency." ~Hennessy

Amanda Nichols Hess, "Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles" (ALA, 2025) - New Books Network Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they think about and experience the world around them. Combined with flexible information-seeking and evaluation...

At the New Books in Library Science podcast, Amanda Nichols Hess discusses how academic librarians can consider critical librarianship, pedagogy, and information literacy instruction in tandem with transformative learning theory: https://newbooksnetwork.com/information-literacy-and-critical-thinking

Dallas County Education Leaders Collaborate On Early Literacy At National Conference With Commit's Support Last fall, the leaders of teaching and learning departments from several Dallas County school systems joined hundreds of educators, researchers and literacy advocates from across the nation at The Rea...

We were honored to welcome literacy leaders from the Dallas County Early Learning Community of Practice to #TRLConf2025.

Read how their commitment to learning, collaboration & bringing new insights back to their school systems & communities has made an impact. ⬇

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Stay safe literacy nerds if you are in the vicinity of the impending snow storm! This nerd’s winter comforts— take 1: warm coat!

💬 Peer-to-peer Explanations

When students explain what they’ve learned to peers, fading memories are reactivated, strengthened, and consolidated.

This strategy not only increases retention but also encourages active learning.

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Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus found that without any reinforcement or connections to prior knowledge, information is quickly forgotten—roughly 56% in one hour, 66% after a day, and 75% after six days.

So what can be done to preserve the hard work of teaching?

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It’s often easier to remember information that’s been presented in different ways, especially if visual aids can help organize information.

Students are more likely to remember what’s been read *and* seen, instead of either one alone.

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Why students forget—and what you can do about it

Our brains are wired to forget, but there are research-backed strategies you can use to make your teaching stick!

🧵 1/12 #EduSky

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Reading struggles are not always about reading. Oral language plays a critical role. Learn more from MaryKate DeSantis.
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Thanks a bunch to Anna Geiger for welcoming me back to the Reach All Readers podcast! In episode #236 we talk about the origins of RTI/MTSS and its promises as it pertains to reading, barriers to success, and implementation tips moving forward. 🤓
#EduSky #EduChat

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Free webinar! Understanding the Updated IDA Dyslexia Definition Featuring: Dr. Hugh Catts & Dr. Charles Haynes

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I have my math students play Yahtzee so we can discuss how to communicate mathematically and how to communicate your strategy.

Play using Google Sheets alicekeeler.com/yahtzee
#googleEDU #googleSheets #EduSky

Using CANVA to create videos?

Tip: Hold down the shift key and select multiple elements. Choose "Group" so you can adjust the length of time shown on the video all at once.

#EdTech #CanvaEdu #VideoEditing @canva @canvaedu #EduSky

New literacy legislation is reshaping how we teach reading, but as IMSE’s Robin Zikmund writes, policies don’t teach kids; teachers do.​ Robin shares 5 actionable strategies schools can use to empower all students, including those with dyslexia.
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Loving IMSE Morphology Plus Lab!