Amy Sacia

5th Grade ELA teacher in Chicagoland

[Tim Rasinski @TimRasinski1]

Word Ladder Wednesday!
Winter is right around the corner - Here's a word ladder to say goodbye to autumn & hello to winter. Hope you and your students enjoy this word study activity.
@ILAToday @reading_league @CECMembership

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

Great resources linked in the thread! #rlr593

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Friends, what’s your favorite primer on fluency?

By primer, I mean: 101-level resource for Ed’s early in learning journey. Think article or webinar, not book.

Freely-available stuff, pls. 🙏

@TimRasinski1 @ReadingShanahan @SoniaCabell @CattsHugh @janhasbrouck @mcglynn3

[Tim Rasinski @TimRasinski1]

For anyone interested in why I signed the "Opinion: A call for rejecting the newest reading wars," a response to the "Sold a Story" podcast, here is a link to my response.

https://t.co/T4Mikn2UDv

[We Are Teachers @WeAreTeachers]

Share. Spread the word. Teacher voices matter.

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

#rlr593 For an intersection of interests: comprehension skills & Gilmore Girls

[Kate Winn @thismomloves]

Why background knowledge matters (and why "You can Google anything" doesn't justify not teaching stuff) -

A Gilmore Girls 🧵:

[EveryLibrary @EveryLibrary]

“The library should be responsive to the community”

The community banning books is less than 8% of Americans

Less than 1% of parents opt-out of reading material when given the opportunity.

Libraries NOT banning books is EXACTLY the library being responsive to the community

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

This looks like an amazing resource! #rlr593

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

#RLR593 Read the thread- lots of great questions and points brought up about this. I have been wondering many of the same things!

[Hilary M @hilarym99]

Things the SOR community need to talk about more: the structure of a literacy block, the intermediate grades, the role of small group instruction and centers/independent work.

BL isn’t just three-cueing - it provided a whole framework for how to organize literacy instruction.

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

@sophiedegener Awesome find! Thanks @sophiedegener!

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

#RLR593 Great question! I may tell my students to use semantics/pictures/syntax to double-check whether the word makes sense, but it is a tricky place for a reader to begin from when they could start with letters and sounds to word-solve!

[Kelly B. Cartwright - Mostly elsewhere now👇🏻 @KellyBCartwrig1]

"...poor readers are more likely to turn to semantics, pictures, and syntax to guess words, while better readers rely on the letters and sounds. Why teach kids to read like poor readers?" https://t.co/9hDppvz6S5

[Tim Rasinski @TimRasinski1]

It's Word Ladder Wednesday!
Time for "Falling Leaves" -- Enjoy the fall and enjoy this word play with students. Find more on Amazon and https://t.co/eqX9aBa5qH
@ILAToday @ascd @DyslexiaIDA @reading_league

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

Wow, "science"? Maybe I'm reading too much into the quotation marks, but this feels like the @nytimes does not think literacy research is legitimate science. #RLR593 https://t.co/A4ExHm9uOR

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

Rasinski & Zimmerman penned this opinion piece in support of fluency work to strengthen reading skills #KSUalumni #RLR593

[College of EHHS @KentStateEHHS]

Kent State professors of literacy education Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D., and Belinda Zimmerman, Ph.D., recently penned an article in the Akron Beacon Journal titled, "Elementary students won't improve reading if key area is neglected, Kent State experts say."
https://t.co/tpXe8Oztpw

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

@MrsKoza In Montessori, they teach the letter sound, but not the letter name, which I found confuses the kids when they come to letters that make multiple sounds like c and g, or digraphs! I think this verbiage helps take out the ambiguity.

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

#rlr593 My preschooler and I are just on the brink of having these conversations. I need to remember some of this verbiage - "/s/ is spelled with s" is such a more concrete way to explain the graphophonemic connection.

[Nell K. Duke @nellkduke]

🎗️There should be no high-frequency word (aka "sight word," although that's a misnomer) instruction in preschool. Much better to spend that time on phonemic awareness & alphabet instruction.
🎗️When high-frequency word instruction does occur, it's imp. to engage children in . . .

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

#rlr593 Interesting article! Definitely helpful to me as my class begins research-based writing this month.

[Knowledge Matters @KnowledgeMatrs]

Can sentence-level work help aid students’ retention of knowledge – as well as their reading comprehension?

@natwexler thinks so, and explores @ReadingShanahan’s latest writing on the topic.

#KnowledgeMatters
https://t.co/96ui001OWr

[Amy Sacia @SaciaTeach]

@julie_orloff @sophiedegener I love this, Julie. Students need to see themselves as capable learners. There are many pathways to learning and often students need to discover which pathway works best for them. Love the lightbulb moment when it happens!