@liv2learnliteracy
Contributing Faculty Member, Mount Saint Joseph University, Reading Science Doctoral Program. President, The Reading League Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Literacy Coalition. Passionate advocate for the right ALL have to be literate. Posts are my own.
☀️ 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-...
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#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