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 WORD STUDY: KIDS NEED IT (A companion to the word study modules)

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Literacy Myth: Introduction
Literacy Myth: All Elementary Teachers Can Teach Reading Effectively To All Students (Part 1)
Literacy Myth: All Elementary Teachers Can Teach Reading Effectively To All Students (Part 2)

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Reader come home:​ the reading brain in a digital world--Letters 1&2

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf

Reader come home: The reading brain in a digital world--Letter 3

READER COME HOME: THE READING BRAIN IN A DIGITAL WORLD--LETTER 4

READER COME HOME:
​ THE READING BRAIN IN A DIGITAL WORLD--LETTER 5

TED: How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds everyday by Tristan Harris
A video interview with MaryAnne Wolf, Ph.D. (Tufts University) www.readingrockets.org

reader come home: The reading brain in a digital world--Letters 6&8


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How Much Is Too Much Help When Grades Are A Concern? 

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How Much To Help When The Work Is Too Hard

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Transitioning to Online Learning

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ILA What's hot for 2020

International Literacy Association What's Hot in Literacy 2020 Report

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non-Traditional instruction during the global pandemic


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CULTURALLY diverse texts

Read Across America 2020: Celebrating a Nation of Diverse Readers
Epic: Digital Library
Twitter #ownvoices
​Room to Read

Five Steps Toward Successful Culturally Relevant Text Selection and Integration by Sue Ann Sharma, Tanya Christ 
Books for Diverse Readers with Strategies
             
A Gift from Abuela by Cecilia Ruiz
                  Islandborn by  Junot Diaz
                  imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera

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SKETCHNOTING for comprehension: episode 1

How to Draw to Remember More TEDxVienna by Graham Shaw

sketchnoting for comprehension: episode 2

Guided Comprehension: Visualizing Using the Sketch-to-Stretch Strategy by Sarah Dennis-Shaw on readwritethink.org
​Proust and the Squid: The Story of Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

sketchnoting for comprehension: episode 3

Hashtags on Twitter
#inkandideas 
​#readsketchthink
​Mentor Texts: 
Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein
Walk On! A Guide for Babies of All Ages by Maria Frazee
Ish by Peter Reynolds
Tools: 
​Free Ink and Ideas Sketchnoting Templates by Tanny McGregor
I-Pad Pro
Paper 
App by We Transfer 
The Tools of Learning A podcast by Merten & Morgan

Sketchnoting for comprehension: episode 4

Adobe Spark website
Color Calculator by Sessions College
Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World by Ed Emberley
Paper App by We Transfer 

sketchnoting for comprehension: episode 5

Read Alouds: 
A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez (Picture Book Biography) by David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler
Elephant and Piggie Series by Mo Williams
The King's Equal by Katherine Paterson
Audio: 
Storynory
Storyline Online
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Websites: 
Core Thinking Routines by Harvard University Project Zero
​Picturing America by National Endowment for the Humanities
Photo of the Day by National Geographic
Wordless News by Maria Fabrizio

sketchnoting for COMPREHENSION: episode 6

​Image Splitter Pinetools.com
The King's Equal by Katherine Paterson

sketchnoting for comprehension: Interview with tanny mcgregor--episode 7

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INTERVIEW WITH TANNY MCGREGOR, AUTHOR OF INK & IDEAS.
Resources:
What does doodling do? by Jackie Andrade 
Sample Chapter 1 of Ink and Ideas by Tanny McGregor from Heinemann.com 
Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor


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ACADEMIC CONVERSATION WITH PHIL HOWELL 

Phil Howell, Dean of The de Paul School
 
International Dyslexia Association
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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Kentucky Department of Education K-3 Dyslexia Toolkit

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building the bridge of fluency 

Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, Fifth Edition by Linda B. Gambrell and Lesley Mandel Morrow

THE MEGABOOK OF FLUENCY: Strategies and Texts to Engage All Readers by Timothy V. Rasinski & Melissa Cheesman Smith

​Playing with Poems:  Word Study Lessons for Shared Reading, K-2 by Zoe Ryder White

Fast Start for Early Readers: A Research-Based, Send-Home Literacy Program With 60 Reproducible Poems and Activities That Ensures Reading Success for Every Child by Nancy Padak, Ed.D. & Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.

Fast Start: Getting Ready to Read: A Research-Based, Send-Home Literacy Program With 60 Reproducible Poems & Activities that Ensures Reading Success for Every Child by Timothy Rasinski & Nancy Padak

Readers Theater scripts by Dr. Chase Young

​The Fluency Development Lesson by Dr. Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.
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the tools of learning

Spaces and Places: Designing Classrooms for Literacy by Debbie Diller

Still Learning To Read: Teaching Student in Grades 3-6, Second Edition by Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak

The Daily Five : Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades, Second Edition by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser

What Are The Rest of My Kids Doing?: Fostering Independence in the K-2 Reading Workshop by Lindsey Moses and Meridith Ogden

Paper Choices from Two Writing Teachers

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Reading instruciton for diverse learners with vicki layne

​Reading Instruction for Diverse Classrooms: Research-Based, Culturally Responsive Practice by McIntyre, Layne, & Hulan

Dialogic Reading on Reading Rockets

​Pathways to the Common Core by Calkins, Ehrenworth, & Lehman

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how do i get my kids to write?

Getting Started with Beginning Writers by Katie Wood Ray & Lisa Cleaveland

Language Experience Approach on Reading Rockets

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Shadow Puppet App Review on Common Sense Media

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