I have started a blog where I share my lesson plans, resources comics recommendations, and book give-away, all for free. This week, I share one of my most impactful lessons. Comics. Education. Literacy. Comics. Education. Literacy. Sign-up here www.historycomics.net/timsmythblog...
April 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
This is the first actual experimental study I've seen that looks at comics reading and dyslexia. The results are a bit mixed, but they conclude overall that the dyslexic readers "benefitted
more from reading comics than skilled readers" rdcu.be/e88Kd
more from reading comics than skilled readers" rdcu.be/e88Kd
Can pictures in comics improve reading accessibility in university students with dyslexia? An eye-tracking study
rdcu.be
March 20, 2026 at 11:23 PM
*NEW POST* The Enduring Persistence of Neuromyths in Education
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date.
Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers provides one of the most detailed snapshots to date.
Fantastic work from @juanfernandez.bsky.social @ferreromar.bsky.social and colleagues
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
Beyond Neuromyths: Why Teachers Still Embrace Ideas That Don't Work
A new study surveying over 3,000 Spanish teachers, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of educational misconceptions in the wild.
open.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This week, I’ve spoken with not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 families of children with #Dyslexia. Even with a diagnosis, most don’t know the questions to ask their child’s school. It’s hard to advocate when you don’t know what to advocate for. So…
I’ve created this resource to inform & empower families:
I’ve created this resource to inform & empower families:
December 11, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Ontario's Right to Read Report with "its clear recommendations should have a significant impact across Canada. 🇨🇦 Children across Canada have a right to read and to the best evidence-based instruction to get them there."
-Jamie Metsala @j-metsala.bsky.social
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-Jamie Metsala @j-metsala.bsky.social
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How advocacy is changing reading instruction with Jamie Metsala (Ep 43)
Podcast Episode · Chalk & Talk · 2025-03-21 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
🎉Congrats, Hannah Nickles & Abby Ware in #ElemEd & Cammie Chandler in #EarlyChildhood & #ElemEd for being selected as Outstanding Student Teachers in Fall 2024! We appreciate their Cooperating Teachers' excellent mentorship & guidance🍎 @lps.org @unlincoln.bsky.social #Huskers #Nebraska
December 11, 2024 at 12:44 AM
🎉Congrats, Hannah Nickles & Abby Ware in #ElemEd & Cammie Chandler in #EarlyChildhood & #ElemEd for being selected as Outstanding Student Teachers in Fall 2024! We appreciate their Cooperating Teachers' excellent mentorship & guidance🍎 @lps.org @unlincoln.bsky.social #Huskers #Nebraska
Oct 17 is #DLDday Internationally!
This is a great podcast to learn more about Developmental Language Disorder, a hidden but common lifelong disability that affects 2 children in every classroom of 30.
#DLD #ElemEd #cdned #K12 #languagedevelopment
This is a great podcast to learn more about Developmental Language Disorder, a hidden but common lifelong disability that affects 2 children in every classroom of 30.
#DLD #ElemEd #cdned #K12 #languagedevelopment
🚗 This week, Kate welcomes Dr. Tiffany Hogan to explore Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). They dig into what DLD is, how it relates to dyslexia, signs educators can watch for at different grade levels, and how to support students in the classroom
🎧 reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...
🎧 reading-roadtrip.castos.com/episodes/s4-...
October 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
My undergrad elem ed majors got to ask some questions before we brainstormed possible investigations and/or data we would like to collect.
My fave Q: “how does the muffin taste?” 🤭
#ScienceEducation #ElemEd #NGSS #DrivingQuestionsBoard
My fave Q: “how does the muffin taste?” 🤭
#ScienceEducation #ElemEd #NGSS #DrivingQuestionsBoard
February 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My undergrad elem ed majors got to ask some questions before we brainstormed possible investigations and/or data we would like to collect.
My fave Q: “how does the muffin taste?” 🤭
#ScienceEducation #ElemEd #NGSS #DrivingQuestionsBoard
My fave Q: “how does the muffin taste?” 🤭
#ScienceEducation #ElemEd #NGSS #DrivingQuestionsBoard
Rethinking Reading Comprehension
www.aft.org/ae/winter202...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #ElemEd #OntEd #CdnEd
www.aft.org/ae/winter202...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #ElemEd #OntEd #CdnEd
Rethinking Reading
www.aft.org
December 31, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Rethinking Reading Comprehension
www.aft.org/ae/winter202...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #ElemEd #OntEd #CdnEd
www.aft.org/ae/winter202...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #ElemEd #OntEd #CdnEd
#openaccess
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa
How much children enjoy reading and writing and how good they are at it correlates, but why? We investigated this in 3690 twins aged 12. Literacy skills seemed to impact literacy enjoyment, but not t...
doi.org
December 27, 2024 at 5:12 PM
#openaccess
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
#openaccess
Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia
#ADHD #dyslexia #dyscalculia #scienceofreading #math #devpsysky #developmentalpsychology #edusky #Elemed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia
#ADHD #dyslexia #dyscalculia #scienceofreading #math #devpsysky #developmentalpsychology #edusky #Elemed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#openaccess
Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia
#ADHD #dyslexia #dyscalculia #scienceofreading #math #devpsysky #developmentalpsychology #edusky #Elemed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia
#ADHD #dyslexia #dyscalculia #scienceofreading #math #devpsysky #developmentalpsychology #edusky #Elemed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#openaccess
Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#languagedevelopment #ElemEd #orallanguage #bskyspeechies #DevLangDis #SLP #SLT
Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#languagedevelopment #ElemEd #orallanguage #bskyspeechies #DevLangDis #SLP #SLT
Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention - Faidra Faitaki, Sophie Liggins, Victoria A. Murphy, 2025
Children’s oral language skills at the earliest stages of education are known to determine their success at school later on. Improving oral language skills is a...
journals.sagepub.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
#openaccess
Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#languagedevelopment #ElemEd #orallanguage #bskyspeechies #DevLangDis #SLP #SLT
Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#languagedevelopment #ElemEd #orallanguage #bskyspeechies #DevLangDis #SLP #SLT
Brand new article! Key words are NOT helpful for teaching students about word-problem solving. This paper explored how students got distracted by the keyword "more." buff.ly/OskgASX
March 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#openaccess
Structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children relate to resting state functional connectivity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#languagedevelopment #pragmmatics #neuroscience #bskyspeechies #Elemed #SLP #SLT #devpsych
Structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children relate to resting state functional connectivity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#languagedevelopment #pragmmatics #neuroscience #bskyspeechies #Elemed #SLP #SLT #devpsych
Structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children relate to resting state functional connectivity - Brain Imaging and Behavior
Language difficulties are common in school-age children but their etiology is often unknown. Although neural underpinnings of language have been well-studied in neurotypical individuals, functional co...
link.springer.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#openaccess
Structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children relate to resting state functional connectivity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#languagedevelopment #pragmmatics #neuroscience #bskyspeechies #Elemed #SLP #SLT #devpsych
Structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children relate to resting state functional connectivity
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#languagedevelopment #pragmmatics #neuroscience #bskyspeechies #Elemed #SLP #SLT #devpsych
🚨My friend, John Mighton (mathematician and founder of JUMP Math), co-created an online course with Barbara Oakley that will be launched July 31 on Coursera. Ideal if you want to improve your confidence and ability in math!
Learn more at: jumpmath.org/ca/coursera/
Learn more at: jumpmath.org/ca/coursera/
July 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
How advocacy is changing reading instruction
(with 🇨🇦 focus)
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #CdnEd #edusky #OntEd #ElemEd #righttoread #lieracyisequity #parenting
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
(with 🇨🇦 focus)
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #CdnEd #edusky #OntEd #ElemEd #righttoread #lieracyisequity #parenting
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
How advocacy is changing reading instruction with Jamie Metsala (Ep 43)
Podcast Episode · Chalk & Talk · 2025-03-21 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
How advocacy is changing reading instruction
(with 🇨🇦 focus)
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #CdnEd #edusky #OntEd #ElemEd #righttoread #lieracyisequity #parenting
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
(with 🇨🇦 focus)
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #CdnEd #edusky #OntEd #ElemEd #righttoread #lieracyisequity #parenting
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
Education professors scored no better than physics or business faculty on basic learning science, raising serious questions about teacher preparation programmes.
researchandeducation.ro/2025/06/30/d...
researchandeducation.ro/2025/06/30/d...
August 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Latest blog post from Pamela Snow (not yet here 🦋)
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2023/04/call...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #parenting
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2023/04/call...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #parenting
Calling time on parent-blame and children’s reading success.
pamelasnow.blogspot.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Latest blog post from Pamela Snow (not yet here 🦋)
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2023/04/call...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #parenting
pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2023/04/call...
#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #ElemEd #literacyisequity #parenting
On @rastokke.bsky.social podcast
Balanced literacy didn’t work – will balanced math? With Ben Solomon
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
#math #scienceofmath #elemed
Balanced literacy didn’t work – will balanced math? With Ben Solomon
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
#math #scienceofmath #elemed
Balanced literacy didn’t work—will balanced math? with Ben Solomon (Ep 54)
Podcast Episode · Chalk & Talk · 2025-09-12 · 1h 10m
podcasts.apple.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
On @rastokke.bsky.social podcast
Balanced literacy didn’t work – will balanced math? With Ben Solomon
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
#math #scienceofmath #elemed
Balanced literacy didn’t work – will balanced math? With Ben Solomon
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
#math #scienceofmath #elemed
#openaccess
Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About
(In Frontiers for Young Minds, an open access journal with scientific articles reviewed by a board of kids & teens)
#DevLangDis #DLD #ElemEd #SLP#SLT #parents #langauagedevelopment
Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About
(In Frontiers for Young Minds, an open access journal with scientific articles reviewed by a board of kids & teens)
#DevLangDis #DLD #ElemEd #SLP#SLT #parents #langauagedevelopment
Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About
Using language is a skill that allows us to share our ideas and feelings, to learn in school, and to understand the world around us. Unfortunately, using and understanding language is not easy for eve...
kids.frontiersin.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#openaccess
Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About
(In Frontiers for Young Minds, an open access journal with scientific articles reviewed by a board of kids & teens)
#DevLangDis #DLD #ElemEd #SLP#SLT #parents #langauagedevelopment
Developmental Language Disorder: The Childhood Condition We Need to Start Talking About
(In Frontiers for Young Minds, an open access journal with scientific articles reviewed by a board of kids & teens)
#DevLangDis #DLD #ElemEd #SLP#SLT #parents #langauagedevelopment
Interview with John Mighton of @jumpmath.bsky.social
Building Math Confidence, One Problem at a Time
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#math #elemed #bskyedu
Building Math Confidence, One Problem at a Time
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#math #elemed #bskyedu
S5E03: John Mighton on Building Math Confidence, One Problem at a Time
Podcast Episode · Progressively Incorrect · 2025-09-20 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
September 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Interview with John Mighton of @jumpmath.bsky.social
Building Math Confidence, One Problem at a Time
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#math #elemed #bskyedu
Building Math Confidence, One Problem at a Time
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#math #elemed #bskyedu
3s are wrapping up Stop Motion Sea Shanties! 🌊 In ELA they explored ocean themes, in music they wrote original shanties, and in art they brought them to life with animation. Cross-curricular creativity at its best! 🎶🎨📚 #MusicEducation #ElementaryMusic #ElemEd #ArtsIntegration #STEAM #StopMotion
February 22, 2026 at 3:10 AM
3s are wrapping up Stop Motion Sea Shanties! 🌊 In ELA they explored ocean themes, in music they wrote original shanties, and in art they brought them to life with animation. Cross-curricular creativity at its best! 🎶🎨📚 #MusicEducation #ElementaryMusic #ElemEd #ArtsIntegration #STEAM #StopMotion
I have published a book for beginning teachers and it has a website: wwww.teach-with-confidence.com plus if you order from Rowman's website use a special code for 25% discount RLFANDF25 #teachereducation #edusky #elemed #teachermentoring #edresearch #teaching
wwww.teach-with-confidence.com
October 21, 2024 at 8:20 AM
I have published a book for beginning teachers and it has a website: wwww.teach-with-confidence.com plus if you order from Rowman's website use a special code for 25% discount RLFANDF25 #teachereducation #edusky #elemed #teachermentoring #edresearch #teaching
#openaccess
Inferring Word Class and Meaning From Spoken and Written Texts: A Comparison of Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder
#DevLangDis #ElemEd #StructuredLiteracy #SLT #SLP #SLPeeps #DLD #WeSpeechies #LanguageDevelopment
Inferring Word Class and Meaning From Spoken and Written Texts: A Comparison of Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder
#DevLangDis #ElemEd #StructuredLiteracy #SLT #SLP #SLPeeps #DLD #WeSpeechies #LanguageDevelopment
Inferring Word Class and Meaning From Spoken and Written Texts: A Comparison of Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the ability of children with developmental
language disorder (DLD) to infer word class and meaning...
pubs.asha.org
November 27, 2024 at 4:20 PM
#openaccess
Inferring Word Class and Meaning From Spoken and Written Texts: A Comparison of Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder
#DevLangDis #ElemEd #StructuredLiteracy #SLT #SLP #SLPeeps #DLD #WeSpeechies #LanguageDevelopment
Inferring Word Class and Meaning From Spoken and Written Texts: A Comparison of Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder
#DevLangDis #ElemEd #StructuredLiteracy #SLT #SLP #SLPeeps #DLD #WeSpeechies #LanguageDevelopment
A "Community Helpers" album of Library of Congress primary sources from the TPS Teachers Network to share with your PreK-2 colleagues. Help children get to know those who keep their worlds safe and working smoothly. #sschat #elemed #iteachsocialstudies tpsteachersnetwork.org/single-group...
Shareable AlbumCommunity Helpers
Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress and housed at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Teaching with Primary Sources Western Region promotes
tpsteachersnetwork.org
December 7, 2024 at 5:26 PM
A "Community Helpers" album of Library of Congress primary sources from the TPS Teachers Network to share with your PreK-2 colleagues. Help children get to know those who keep their worlds safe and working smoothly. #sschat #elemed #iteachsocialstudies tpsteachersnetwork.org/single-group...