Yay! 🥳

Any guesses what Stephanie Stollar and I were both doing at this very moment?

Hint: we’re hard at work collaborating on something, and all will be revealed at the IDA Ontario #LitLearn2025 conference in Toronto next weekend!

(Of course we will share on social media afterwards so stay tuned!)

Manitoba teachers are receiving marching orders to pay closer attention to how young students learn to read and use new tools to flag early signs of struggle.

Looking for tickets? Click on here to reserve your seats www.eventbrite.ca/e/researched...

What about Writing? Looks like researchED Canada is filling another hole in the existing Canadian K-12 curriculum. Dr. Leslie Laud, founder of Think SRSD, will be speaking at researchED Canada Toronto (June 6-7/25). The Stellar Cast just got even better! #SRSD #cdned #ONTed #writingrevolution

Congrats to @standehaene.bsky.social, who will be presented with the 2025 Lewis Thomas Prize on Monday! Dr. Dehaene is being honored with Rockefeller’s prestigious science writing award for his writings that demystify the inner workings of the mind.

Canadian students have struggled to read and write. That stops in 2025. macleans.ca/the-year-ahe...

"“structured literacy"... , even students who are new to Canada—those who may be learning English at the same time as they’re learning how to read—can learn to decode words as well as native speakers. It helps give everyone a fair shot."
@j-metsala.bsky.social
macleans.ca/the-year-ahe

In short, the only thing that all those with dyslexia have in common is that they are at the extreme end of the continuum in terms of how difficult they find learning to recognise and spell words.

Morpheme Mapper tool. Check it out.

phonicsandstuff.com/morpheme-map...

The team at www.ONlit.org worked hard on these Grade 8 Fluency passages all about Canadian Changemakers. Grade 7 in the works and coming soon. Have you checked out #ONlit? It's free and has HEAPS of great supports and resources for teachers.

Grade 7 passages on topics from the Ontario Science, Geography, History, Health, and Arts curriculums. Building knowledge and fluency together.

Lots of work left yet for our ONlit team but they are coming together!

On Fridays, I have been doing a weekly Instagram post showing our learning from the week. Check it out below 📸

#StructuredLiteracy

www.instagram.com/p/DC9xUppPud...

Check out the full webinar from @mrzachg.bsky.social here:

youtu.be/H468hf7XREA?...

It gives great, user-friendly guidance on the what, why, and how of #explicitinstruction. 2/2

This paper is now out in Plos Computational— it nicely explains how learning to read recycles existing object recognition abilities, and leads to a precise prediction about neurons becoming tuning to an ordinal letter position code (« space bigrams »)
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

This Wednesday at 7pm, join Ontario educator Melissa Monette Smith as she talks what to do w/ your universal screening data, and shares how she used her screening + diagnostic data to plan and organize her Grade 1 literacy block. Register for the event, here: onlit.org/event/grade-...
#ONlit #EDUsky

One of the things that keeps me going back to Twitter is that I get fairly regular DMs on there asking me for advice about reading.

Just to be clear: I am more than happy for people to DM on here for the same reason.

Please repost this if you think this info might be useful to someone.

I appreciate this article so Perry much @natwexler.bsky.social Becoming a Nation of Non-Readers open.substack.com/pub/nataliew...