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Jen Frenette
@jenfrenette.bsky.social
First grade teacher & Structured Literacy advocate
MSE in Literacy with Dyslexia endorsement
August 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Welker to Lavrov: "Here are the facts. Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war. Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?"
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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"Learn everything you can about what you love, and no one can take that from you," says one reader's dad. Here are 7 other pieces of fatherly advice.
8 pieces of life advice from dads
To honor the dads in our lives for Father's Day, we're sharing some of the best life advice our listeners ever got from their dads.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Year end data is coming in and UFLI has definitely made a positive impact on my students’ learning this year!
May 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
March 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
March 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
March 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Had to take a little break from UFLI because my district’s S&S specifically teaches blends but we’re so happy to be back!
February 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
January 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s words couldn't be more important in today's info landscape.

✨ As we celebrate MLK Day, let us review his article, "The Purpose of Education," which was published in the Morehouse College student newspaper in 1947.

🔗 Article: bit.ly/PurposeEduca...
#MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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“Reading comprehension isn’t just a skill—it depends on knowledge. Without background knowledge, students struggle to understand what they read.”

@natwexler.bsky.social explains why building knowledge is key to literacy success. #SOR #KnowledgeMatters

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/nataliew...
January 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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January 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Restructuring the way I teach high frequency words has made a dramatic difference in how my students have mastered these words www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Does Teaching 'Sight Words' Contradict the Science of Reading?
Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?
www.edweek.org
January 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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5 of 5
Kids deserve ed leaders and decision-makers who are clear-eyed and relentless in their pursuit of helping them become proficient readers.
#Edusky
#SOR
#EduSky
January 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Powerful words from Executive Director Kareem Weaver to ground our work heading into the new year: “[Literacy] is the gateway to society, its institutions, and the basic opportunities that we want for all kids.”

#Literacy is the fundamental #CivilRight of our time.
January 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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If you've seen this Catts & Kamhi piece floating around your feeds over the past few weeks but haven't read it yet, I highly recommend taking a few mins to read it. It's a brilliant and accessible summary of so much research related to reading comprehension. www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

#sor #EduSky
Rethinking Reading
www.aft.org
January 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
December 13, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Universal Screening
for Children at Risk for Dyslexia
Why? Research Shows…

Joseph Torgesen “we can, using tests currently available, accurately identify students who are likely to struggle with reading starting in preschool or kindergarten."

decodingdyslexiaca.org/universal-sc...
December 3, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 2:09 AM
November 22, 2024 at 12:21 PM
UFLI working its magic in our classroom!
November 21, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM