We are a #nonprofit that specializes in teaching children how to #read, write, spell, and recognize #dyslexia as their superpower.🦸
14533 E Sharon LN, Wichita, KS
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We launched the @wsutech Para Educator Program today! Joined by friends from @WichitaUSD259 , @WichitaState, and the @funlearnctr, we’re ready to make a big impact on our community’s workforce. Excited for the future!
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Thanks to @KWCH12 for covering the Reading Summit. KHI offered data analysis and design of posters for the data walk - detailing factors important to the discussion. @kansashealthorg @funlearnctr @TheKLC
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ICYMI: Here's a look at this week's data walk focused on childhood literacy. Learn more: khi.org/articles/reading-sum… @kansashealthorg @TheKLC @funlearnctr
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There's a new episode of Sold a Story available now (Episode 9: The Aftermath). Also - did you know we now have Sold a Story en español?
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Introducing Sold a Story en español - plus two new episodes coming next month in English. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Sold a Story en español is available now. Find it on podcast apps and online, here: features.apmreports.org/sold…
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What do you wish someone had told you when you/your child first got a dyslexia diagnosis? #dyslexia
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Anybody with a dyslexic kid understands the struggle. It's not a game. You have to be willing to study, learn, and battle powerful entities... and never give up. They're depending on you regardless of how inconvenient it may be, or how many friends you may lose.
"Having #dyslexia is like living in two worlds..." @KJWinEducation recounts what his daughter described to him (her illustration here). She brought him, in part, to this work.
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This 4-year-old is the advocate for reading we need right now
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Kids always know whether we believe in them or not.
Some kids need us to believe in them before they can believe in themselves.
This is often true for our most vulnerable readers who also have experienced 3 years of reading failure more …
Phillips Fundamental Learning Center retweeted
Before you all come saying how this is missing something or it is wrong in "x" or "y "part, the big idea here is that when kids are struggling we need to be diagnostic and make no assumption, and that what often presents as a comprehension problem is of often not so, because it is rooted in a weakness of a more foundational skill.
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This is what being able to read 80% of words looks like. Though 80% sounds like a high percentage, when it comes to reading comprehension, this percentage falls short of the accuracy level kids need to possess to comprehend text.
In fact, kids' accuracy should fall between 95% and 98% accuracy to derive meaning from texts.
Stop writing #IEPgoals that have 80% acc. 4 every criteria. 🛑
Can you comprehend this 100 word p. w/ 20 words missing?
#Comprehension requires mastery of approx. 95-98% of the words readers encounter. 💡(Laufer, 1989; Hu & Nation, 2000; Schmitt et al., 2011)
#literacy
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“For some students, digital reading was actually detrimental:
The researchers found that reading on screens lowered reading comprehension skills among younger students, those in elementary and MS grades.”
We can’t talk about this enough:
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A School Board Member's Insights on Implementation of the Science of Reading -- why this issue is difficult for school boards, what superintendents need to know, advice for parents.
Free in @reading_league Journal
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This week @DCFKansas awarded $8.1 million to @kansasdiscovery and @funlearnctr. These grants continue our progress to help Kansas’ children learn, grow, and achieve.
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Our first bonus episode of Sold a Story is out now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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NYC is officially announcing today that elementary schools will be required to use one of three reading curriculums. Here's our story breaking the news in March:
ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/2…
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About one in three American fourth-graders cannot read at a basic level of comprehension.
@AthenaCNN has been digging into the crisis: