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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.

Tickets: https://t.co/ilEd94j2ml

Membership: https://t.co/8GD7Ta5RZs

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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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"In order for students to know what fluent reading is, they need to hear it. They need to hear their teachers and others read to them regularly in voices that are expressive and meaningful."

Have you ever shared with your students how you read a passage fluently?

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Did you know the socioemotional intelligence of a teacher has an effect size of 0.52 on student outcomes? That's a moderate impact on students that cannot be underplayed!

How are you intentionally crafting an emotionally compelling reading instruction?

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According to the research of John Hattie, a teacher's estimates of student achievement has a massive 1.29 effective size on student outcomes. Teachers must believe that each student can succeed given the right structures and routines that they create for them.

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"Scaffold students’ thinking about complex texts by asking what the text says, how it works, what it means, and what it inspires them to do."

For more, check out Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey's article "Questioning that Deepens Comprehension." #literacy

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National Poetry Month is the perfect time to invest in your students' fluency development by designing opportunities for them to engage in repeated readings and performance of poetry! #literacy

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A systematic approach to reading comprehension instruction might need to include developing students' ability to making meaning at the sentence level. #literacy

Check out Tim Shanahan's thoughts on sentence-level comprehension below!
https://t.co/CVPTpzrCVz

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We can intentionally draw students' eyes and ears to "magical language" as models of original writing. Then we can design exercises for them to practice taking risks in the way they describe an image.
#writing #literacy

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Spoken language is not quite organized in the same way as written language; therefore, students must receive intentional, varied, and frequent exposures to the syntax of written language. Give them the repetitions they need to become fluent!

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From all of us at the Florida Literacy Association, we wish you a happy Valentine's Day!

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Florida Literacy Association remembers Dr. Ernest Morrell who, among many great contributions to education, spoke at our 60th Annual Literacy Conference in 2025.

We celebrate his life and grieve with his friends and family.