Passionate Educator, Perpetual Learner, UVA Alumna🧡💙, JMU Alumna💜💛, Structured Literacy ♥️♥️ Advocate
Central Virginia
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A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
To help my students with the Because But and So sentence expansion activity, from #TheWritingRevolution, I created the following template. Download for Free. justtwoteachers.com/the-writ…
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El Kilauea vuelve a despertar: lava alcanza 300 metros en impresionante erupción en Hawái
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A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Congratulations to the incredible team @UFLiteracy !Exceptional gratitude for @HollyLanePhD & @ValContessePhD for their enormous generosity creating UFLI while receiving no monetary benefit. What a gift UFLI has been to Ts & Ss worldwide! W/ gratitude to these #LiteracyLegends
New study on @UFLiteracy in press in Reading Research Quarterly: "Adding instruction in foundational skills increased early literacy skills scores by more than 1.0 standard deviation." @HollyLanePhD @ValContessePhD @ILAToday @reading_league @CECMembership researchgate.net/publication…
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
🌟Each day, our students pick a sentence starter, like “Today I worked hard to accomplish…” and reflect on their achievements. This not only boosts their confidence but also helps them set goals for the week ahead!
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A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
I teach 9th graders at a public school. I try to incorporate fluency at least once a week in all my classes, and often more than that for my reading intervention courses.
Here's the simple protocol I follow: (not rocket science, but it might be helpful to someone)
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
I cannot recommend this ‘word sort’ tweak enough! It is remarkable (and worrying) how many children sort the words purely based on their orthography, likely not engaging with the phonological or semantic properties of the words!
Here’s another little alteration to consider 👇
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
🧠 ✨ Have you used Morpheme Mapper in your classroom?
It is a tool that educators and students can use to explore the breakdown of morphemes within words they are exploring!
#Literacy #EduTwitter #Morphology #Vocabulary
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Prefixes, roots, and suffixes to consider when teaching about the American Revolution. What would you add? What else would be helpful?
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Research shows the brain is far more active when we write by hand than when we type. Despite this, local authorities are spending millions on iPads for every pupil—a reckless decision amid declining literacy rates and other urgent pressures. Handwriting matters; we must not abandon it.
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Encourage your students to engage with texts before, during, & after reading!
Get an active reading strategy for any learning landscape now: bit.ly/3zUIcB9
#engchat #litchat #literacy
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
The poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
The longer we wait to intervene and support students the wider the gap gets and the more challenging it will be to overcome.
Reading struggles don't go away with time, they get better with intervention.
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Newsflash ⚡⚡⚡The way you think about repeated reading is about to change! One way to do repeated reading is Readers' Theater.
Listen now! 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Just put together a code pack of the UFLI scope and sequence and sample words to decode and encode for some of my students (also a video to explain how to use it for families). Here’s the link if you’re interested: docs.google.com/presentation…
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Students show overall better executive functioning after structured writing instruction (control did not)
link.springer.com/article/10…
This child showed classic behavior issues, until he didn't (after the structured instruction described in this article)
youtu.be/Ha_XKeOJOSc
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
I’m so thankful to Melissa and Lori to have the chance to share this all important topic! Excited to share a few gold nugget teaching tips for comprehension instruction alongside my favorite literacy partners @KConradiSmith and @EFrackelton! 🙌🏼📚💛💚
If we're not doing "strategy of the week" then what ARE we doing instead? 🤔📚📣
We discussed this article alllll about comprehension instruction - how to make it worthwhile! Get back to the book.
🎧 literacypodcast.com/podcast
A. Rutherford, M.Ed. retweeted
Good news! Our article, No More “Strategy of the Week”: Considerations for Connecting Comprehension Instruction Back to the Book, has received over 5,000 views since publication! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #ViewsMilestone
@KConradiSmith @EFrackelton