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FLA: promotes quality literacy instruction, clarifies educational issues for decision makers, supports research in literacy, advocates life-long reading.

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It is your #TimeToShine at our 61st Annual Literacy Conference! Get your tickets* today! #FLA2026

*Members get a discount on all ticket purchases.

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Readers must access prior knowledge to make meaning from text; likewise, writers must draw upon prior knowledge to make meaning composing text. Either way, readers and writers heavily rely on prior knowledge if meaning-making is the goal. #literacy #backgroundknowledge

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As you begin to transition from summer to school brain, check out Amplify's Science of Reading: The Podcast's completed 10th season as they dig into the research and practices around COMPREHENSION. #literacy

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In Kindergarten, Florida students must begin describing characters' feelings and thoughts (ELA.K.R.1.1). This progresses to include characters' motivations in Grade 3. Students need explicit instruction in the sort of inferences they must make while reading.

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From all of us at the Florida Literacy Association, we wish you a meaningful Independence Day as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. Remember, literacy is LIBERTY! #literacy #liberty

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In honor of the United State's 250 birthday, we encourage you to intentionally build critical background knowledge for your students in the new school year using resources like Scholastic's virtual field trip to the Museum of the American Revolution!

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Are you reading any professional books to grow your knowledge and skills over the summer? Here is a recommendation we have to enrich your professional reading on literacy instruction! #literacy

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What is our mission? We are a professional organization promoting quality literacy instruction, clarifying educational issues for decisions makers, supporting research in literacy, and advocating life-long reading. #literacy

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Are you reading any professional books to grow your knowledge and skills over the summer? Here is a recommendation we have to enrich your professional reading on literacy instruction! #literacy

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Join FLA celebrating Juneteenth! Juneteenth marks the day in 1865—more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation—when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the last enslaved people in the state were free. #juneteenth

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One effective way to support reading of multisyllabic words is through morphology instruction. Pages 200-203 of the Florida B.E.S.T. ELA Standards lists a variety of roots, bases, and affixes that can assist decoding and meaning-making.

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A novice writer can't develop the verbal dexterity needed for the writing we need them to engage in without frequent opportunities to just marvel at the craft of a master.

How could you help students pause and delight in an author's craft? #writing #literacy

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How do the systems of your school intentionally cultivate writers from the primary years into the intermediate years? Good writers don't sprout up at the end of fourth grade without years of routine explicit instruction and corrective feedback. #literacy #writing

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How might you intentionally provide your students with regular, uninterrupted time for thinking and writing? #literacy #writing

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From all of us at the Florida Literacy Association, we remember and honor the sacrifices of those brave men and women who have made secure our freedom to concern ourselves with the literacy development of Florida's children. #MemorialDay #literacy

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Do your students struggle explaining why an author might include figurative language in their work? Try framing figurative language around why it's necessary instead of just by what it is. Try using Poet Mary Oliver's description of figurative language. #literary

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Susan Pimentel, the lead author of the Common Core State Standards for English/language arts literacy, offers 3 recommendations for greater reading proficiency in her article linked below. #literacy

Link: https://t.co/5PA6IBQgYa

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"...for younger and struggling readers, or when reading a text that is challenging, one reading may not be enough. In cases such as these, two or even more readings may be necessary..."

How might you plan for repeated readings of text?

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"If you practice an action or activity enough times, you develop automatic control over that action or activity."

So, if your students' word reading fluency isn't progressing at an acceptable rate, how might you create more meaningful, frequent opportunities to practice?

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Without multiple formative assessments in a lesson, how can teachers provide meaningful feedback that identifies the gap between what the student is doing and the learning goal?
#literacy #correctivefeedback

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"Cognitive science has found that distributed practice is effective" because "each time an item is successfully retrieved from memory, it becomes resistant to being forgotten." - Young, Paige, & Rasinski
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