Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈
@teachthewholerope.bsky.social
Passionate about the scientific study of learning and literacy. Working to translate research into evidence-based educational practices for the benefit of all students. Equity and social justice depend on effective instruction and intervention for all.
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A brief introduction: I’m a Psychologist working in schools, Ph.D. in Educational Psychology; researched reading (morphology; comprehension monitoring). I love learning about developments in cognitive neuroscience, reading development, and instruction that can help teachers to help students.
I’m excited to get back to summer and podcasts like reading-roadtrip.castos.com This weeks episode with Jen O’Sullivan was packed with great examples for teaching students inferencing skills! I’m looking forward to more from the Reading Road Trip!
Reading Road Trip
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July 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I’m excited to get back to summer and podcasts like reading-roadtrip.castos.com This weeks episode with Jen O’Sullivan was packed with great examples for teaching students inferencing skills! I’m looking forward to more from the Reading Road Trip!
This was a great conversation!
Had the opportunity to converse with @rastokke.bsky.social on teaching all our students to read. Canadian parents & teachers are leading the way forward on critical educational reforms. chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This was a great conversation!
Not just relevant to Australia- this is worth reading.
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2025 minus 2005 equals 20 years of lost progress
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March 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Not just relevant to Australia- this is worth reading.
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2025/03/2025...
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2025/03/2025...
Brilliant!
Retrieval practice is more than just taking a test. It's a powerful strategy for long-term learning and retention. Here's a simple no-stakes question to ask your students: What are two things you learned?
Boost learning quickly with Two Things! | Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D.
How can we use retrieval practice to break up our lessons, quickly and easily, without pausing to facilitate class discussion or collect papers? Use a retrieval strategy we simply call "Two Things," ...
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February 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Brilliant!
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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.
#Literacy is the fundamental #CivilRight of our time.
January 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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.
#Literacy is the fundamental #CivilRight of our time.
I love this. It makes me think about an often frustrating attempt ensure a student produces what everyone else is producing rather than honouring what a student creates or learns at their level when they participate in the process.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOG...
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Inclusion is not Assimilation: Understanding communities of identity and diversity
YouTube video by Five Moore Minutes
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February 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I love this. It makes me think about an often frustrating attempt ensure a student produces what everyone else is producing rather than honouring what a student creates or learns at their level when they participate in the process.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOG...
This week I got to talk with teachers about the importance of retrieval practice and maximizing opportunities to respond when teaching students who are struggling to learn literacy skills. Some useful strategies: … 1/n
January 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This week I got to talk with teachers about the importance of retrieval practice and maximizing opportunities to respond when teaching students who are struggling to learn literacy skills. Some useful strategies: … 1/n
Systematic explicit instructiin and practice is not the only important part of teaching reading, but it is very important. New research published about UFLI- Foundations highlights the effectiveness of this phonics program. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Researchers Created a Phonics Program With ‘Dramatic’ Results. How It Works
Consistent implementation of the 30-minute-a-day program fueled the results.
www.edweek.org
January 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Systematic explicit instructiin and practice is not the only important part of teaching reading, but it is very important. New research published about UFLI- Foundations highlights the effectiveness of this phonics program. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
I’ve recently had some interesting conversations about spelling challenges. I’ve appreciated two podcast episodes from Melissa and Lori Love Literacy for practical ideas (episodes 191 with Pam Kastner and episode 192 with Savannah Campbell)
literacypodcast.com/podcast?podc...
literacypodcast.com/podcast?podc...
Episodes | literacypodcast
Melissa and Lori Love Literacy is a podcast for educators interested in learning more about the science of reading, knowledge building, and high-quality curriculum! Join Melissa and Lori as they tackl...
literacypodcast.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’ve recently had some interesting conversations about spelling challenges. I’ve appreciated two podcast episodes from Melissa and Lori Love Literacy for practical ideas (episodes 191 with Pam Kastner and episode 192 with Savannah Campbell)
literacypodcast.com/podcast?podc...
literacypodcast.com/podcast?podc...
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Another blog addressing a commonly asked question.
This time I'm looking at how long we should teach phonics when learners have additional needs, especially a complex profile.
www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com/post/how-lon...
This time I'm looking at how long we should teach phonics when learners have additional needs, especially a complex profile.
www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com/post/how-lon...
How long should we teach phonics?
I really should start this blog with, ‘Another thing I get asked about a lot is…’ because this issue comes up time and again: timescale. Here in England, where daily phonics is mandatory as initial in...
www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com
October 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Another blog addressing a commonly asked question.
This time I'm looking at how long we should teach phonics when learners have additional needs, especially a complex profile.
www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com/post/how-lon...
This time I'm looking at how long we should teach phonics when learners have additional needs, especially a complex profile.
www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com/post/how-lon...
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Sold a Story makes TIME Magazine’s Top Ten Podcast list 🥳
Congratulations to Emily Hanford who has done so much to highlight how so many children have been taught to read (but haven’t learnt) using ineffective methods.
If you haven’t already, do find it and listen 🎧
time.com/6321143/best...
Congratulations to Emily Hanford who has done so much to highlight how so many children have been taught to read (but haven’t learnt) using ineffective methods.
If you haven’t already, do find it and listen 🎧
time.com/6321143/best...
November 25, 2023 at 10:16 AM
Sold a Story makes TIME Magazine’s Top Ten Podcast list 🥳
Congratulations to Emily Hanford who has done so much to highlight how so many children have been taught to read (but haven’t learnt) using ineffective methods.
If you haven’t already, do find it and listen 🎧
time.com/6321143/best...
Congratulations to Emily Hanford who has done so much to highlight how so many children have been taught to read (but haven’t learnt) using ineffective methods.
If you haven’t already, do find it and listen 🎧
time.com/6321143/best...
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The NRP Report (2000) found that independent silent reading may not be the most efficient use of instructional time.
In our study, we replicated the finding. We found that independent reading didn't contribute meaningfully to improved reading outcomes.
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In our study, we replicated the finding. We found that independent reading didn't contribute meaningfully to improved reading outcomes.
🔗 shorturl.at/ZeBJz
🔗 shorturl.at/BZBpt
Examining the Effects of Silent Independent Reading on Reading Outcomes: A Narrative Synthesis Review from 2000 to 2020
Encouraging children to read extensively has been a widely recommended approach to developing reading. The National Reading Panel published a review study reporting inconclusive findings regarding ...
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December 19, 2024 at 10:44 AM
The NRP Report (2000) found that independent silent reading may not be the most efficient use of instructional time.
In our study, we replicated the finding. We found that independent reading didn't contribute meaningfully to improved reading outcomes.
🔗 shorturl.at/ZeBJz
🔗 shorturl.at/BZBpt
In our study, we replicated the finding. We found that independent reading didn't contribute meaningfully to improved reading outcomes.
🔗 shorturl.at/ZeBJz
🔗 shorturl.at/BZBpt
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Love this teachers insight and personal experience! I think her experience resonates with a lot of teachers.
Teachers, have you ever had to teach a literacy unit or module where you didn't know very much about the content yourself?
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🚨🚨🚨Knowledge-Building isn't just for Students 🚨🚨🚨
Check out our latest ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Knowledge-Building Isn’t Just for Students — Goyen Foundation
The knowledge- building curricula available to us are sufficient for the grades we teach, but teachers need more….We need to know what came before and what lies ahead in the students' educational jour...
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December 7, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Love this teachers insight and personal experience! I think her experience resonates with a lot of teachers.
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Why does the brain matter for education? New edition of BJEP has four papers which are very interesting. Made some notes, here's a quick 🧵⬇️
December 7, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Why does the brain matter for education? New edition of BJEP has four papers which are very interesting. Made some notes, here's a quick 🧵⬇️
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Continued and stronger advocacy efforts are needed to promote recruitment in the profession. To find out more about school psychology in Canada, visit the CPA Section of Educational and School Psychology website: cpa.ca/sections/edu...
Feel free to also message us here for more information.
Feel free to also message us here for more information.
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Continued and stronger advocacy efforts are needed to promote recruitment in the profession. To find out more about school psychology in Canada, visit the CPA Section of Educational and School Psychology website: cpa.ca/sections/edu...
Feel free to also message us here for more information.
Feel free to also message us here for more information.
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“A product-liability case reaches beyond the secrecy of parents doing this over and over.”
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Heinemann and three of its top authors - Lucy Calkins and Fountas&Pinnell - promoted “deceptive” and “defective” products. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Heinemann and three of its top authors - Lucy Calkins and Fountas&Pinnell - promoted “deceptive” and “defective” products. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...
Lawsuit calls reading curriculum 'deceptive' and 'defective'
A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that the educational publishing company Heinemann falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based.”
www.apmreports.org
December 4, 2024 at 7:19 PM
“A product-liability case reaches beyond the secrecy of parents doing this over and over.”
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Heinemann and three of its top authors - Lucy Calkins and Fountas&Pinnell - promoted “deceptive” and “defective” products. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Heinemann and three of its top authors - Lucy Calkins and Fountas&Pinnell - promoted “deceptive” and “defective” products. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...
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There is a shortage of school psychologists across Canada. This is at a time where access to critical mental health services for children and youth is becoming increasingly problematic. Canada needs more visibility of the profession, recruitment, training opportunities and programs.
November 27, 2024 at 3:49 PM
There is a shortage of school psychologists across Canada. This is at a time where access to critical mental health services for children and youth is becoming increasingly problematic. Canada needs more visibility of the profession, recruitment, training opportunities and programs.
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I've been teaching for 25+ years, and it's only been within the last 5 that I was introduced to the hierarchy of evidence. I wonder how many programs and initiatives are promoted in #BCEd with little to no evidence. Is it a matter of who has the loudest voice & the largest platform? Hmm...
November 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I've been teaching for 25+ years, and it's only been within the last 5 that I was introduced to the hierarchy of evidence. I wonder how many programs and initiatives are promoted in #BCEd with little to no evidence. Is it a matter of who has the loudest voice & the largest platform? Hmm...
November 22, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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A brief introduction: I’m a Psychologist working in schools, Ph.D. in Educational Psychology; researched reading (morphology; comprehension monitoring). I love learning about developments in cognitive neuroscience, reading development, and instruction that can help teachers to help students.
November 11, 2024 at 11:48 PM
A brief introduction: I’m a Psychologist working in schools, Ph.D. in Educational Psychology; researched reading (morphology; comprehension monitoring). I love learning about developments in cognitive neuroscience, reading development, and instruction that can help teachers to help students.
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