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The Summer Before Kindergarten

If you have a child that is about to enter kindergarten, you might find yourself wondering what they need to know when they come to us. Do they need to know all their letter sounds? Should they be reading? Today, I want to put your mind at ease about what we expect when your child starts kindergarten.To put it simply,

Comprehension, Teaching Tips

Interview with a Middle School Reading Specialist

We know that struggling readers don’t stop struggling when they leave elementary school. I often receive messages from middle school teachers, asking what they can do. I’ve not have had much experience above 5th grade. Enter Emily Conlan, the face behind @wordmorphed_ on Instagram. She was kind enough to take the time to answer questions about how the Science of

Resources, Science of Reading, Teaching Tips

Intentional Instruction as we Return to School

We’re about to move into our third school year of this pandemic. That means the children entering second grade have never known a “normal” school year. For some of us, it will be the first time we’ve set foot in a classroom in 18 months. As we go back to school, I know there’s a range of emotions—fear for

Book Reviews, Small Group, Teaching Tips

Book Review: How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction

Have you ever started a book and it was so full of theory that you didn’t know how it would ever trickle down to authentic practice? The ones where your eyes go wobbly and you find yourself checking your phone 5 times each page? I can say, with complete and utter certainty, that this will not happen with my latest

Science of Reading, Teaching Tips

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

I broke up with Lucy Calkins this year. I fully severed the ties when I threw my Art of Teaching Reading book into the garbage. I threw it into the trash at school, so I couldn’t dig through the garbage and rescue it. All of my blog posts so far have been aimed at giving tips, spreading information, and helping

Alphabet Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Tips

Keys to Kindergarten Success

How comfortable are you with writing the letter e? I think, at this point in our lives, we’re pretty solid. Since we are so good at it, we could probably teach it to others, right? How would you explain writing the letter e to a child who is just learning their letters? “You start kind-of halfway down the line.

Phonics, Teaching Tips

Teaching Heart Words

Sight words. High-frequency words. Red Words. Heart words. Who cares what they are called as long as your kids learn them, right? And to a certain degree you are right. But, I do think there are some key differences. So, let’s talk vocabulary and then get to the good stuff—how we teach them to our children. I used to think

Science of Reading, Teaching Tips

Introductions are in order

I’ve started and stopped this first post several times. The idea of putting myself out there as some kind of expert in the Science of Reading is not only daunting, it’s just wrong. I’d like to start by saying I’m not an expert—I’m not a researcher, a published author, or a professor. I do not stand on the shoulders

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