Mary Phillips

Reading comprehension & written composition strongly connected in primary grades! And largely explained by shared skills like oral discourse & lexical literacy. Open access at doi.org/10.1080/108884… #LiteracyResearch #ReadingScience #ScienceOfReading

Your teachers differentiate learning for students every day. Here's a way you can differentiate learning for teachers, by leader Rachel Gagliardo. Check out "PD in a Box": forms.gle/v8tjtU14kC76fE…

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Great presentation from @NCPSchools at the @ncpublicschools SBE meeting on their literacy intervention plans & the positive impact on students! Always inspiring to hear about the great work our schools & districts are doing to support student learning. #ChampionNCPublicSchools

🎄 12 Days of Christmas: Building Better Literacy Instruction 🎄 Over the next 12 days, I’ll be sharing curated, evidence-aligned literacy resources designed to help educators move from research to instructional precision. Each resource is selected to support teachers, coaches, and leaders in making informed, effective decisions about instruction, practice, and intervention. 🔹 Day 1: A Padlet of resources related to The Instructional Hierarchy (Haring & Eaton, 1978), Types of Practice, and Cognitive Load Theory I started here intentionally. The Instructional Hierarchy provides a critical decision-making framework that helps educators determine: - What type of instruction students need - When practice is appropriate—and when it is not- - How fluency, generalization, and maintenance fit within MTSS - Why mismatched instruction leads to stalled progress When we ignore where students are in the learning process, even strong materials and good intentions fall short. This resource supports implementation fidelity and instructional alignment. 🔗 The Day 1 resource and all others to follow can be found at this link: bit.ly/Kastner12DaysO… Follow along for the next 12 days as together we unpack practical tools that strengthen literacy systems and classroom practice.

Think-Pair-Share has the widest gap between success and failure in the classroom. With clear prompts, tight timing, and real accountability, it’s a powerhouse for thinking. Toss it in without intentional design and it collapses into noise. With TPS, intentionality is everything.

It’s all about breaking tricky sentences into parts so students can actually understand them—and use the skill in their own writing. ✏️ Listen 🎙️ ow.ly/tch250X6zqu TIPS Sheet 📝 ow.ly/wOIk50X6zqt

Dramatic improvement is possible through the use of data - but only when it's organized in useful ways. 📊 Ready to move from data overload to data-driven impact? 📖 Order now: corwin.com/books/using-da… @UChiConsortium

Handwriting skills serve as the foundation of broader writing skill development. Only once students learn to fluently transcribe individual letters are they able to develop more complex writing skills. Learn more about handwriting instruction through our eLearning: irrc.education.uiowa.edu/lifter

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ELL Strategy: Text Engineering Text engineering is a strategy that embeds scaffolds and supports directly into grade-level text to increase student comprehension. Check out our tips, PD materials, and resources for using AI to scaffold for ELLs! colorincolorado.org/teaching-ells/…

T: "I'm the Math teacher. Not the Reading teacher." M: "That's fantastic! But we all teach literacy. Tell me about your vocabulary instruction." #intentional #contentareas 👇👇👇

ELL Strategy: Sentence Pattern Chart Sentence patterning charts are similar to sentence frames, but offer students more choice and explicitly teach common sentence patterns. colorincolorado.org/teaching-ells/…

Without a clear framework, the true potential of coaching often goes unrealized. 📈 Start seeing the difference that effective coaching can make with research-backed strategies from Coaching for Impact: ow.ly/kMFW50WOtHx #InstructionalCoaching #K12

Prefixes and Suffixes in Maths by Ben Gordon Yes, before you ask, you can download it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1QtD6hv…

🔎 When your staff looks at data about your school, do they surface the most important stories about student learning? Explore data literacy tools from @NewLeadersOrg to guide your discussions this year. newleaders.org/blog/how-the-b…

🚨 Update! 🚨 Our team will no longer be active on this account. But don’t worry—you can stay connected with us on Instagram & Facebook, where we’ll continue sharing updates, resources, and PD opportunities. 📚✨ Follow us there to keep the conversation going! @ncpublicschools

NC Educators, we need your feedback! NCDPI's ELA team invites your feedback on Draft 3 of the Proposed 2025 English Language Arts Standard Course of Study. ➡️ Complete the survey: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/NCSBE…. ⏰Survey closes October 1.

✨📚 Brag & Tag! 📚✨ We know incredible things are happening in ELA classrooms across NC—and we want to celebrate YOU! Here’s how to join in: 1️⃣ Share classroom pics. 2️⃣ Tag @NCDPI_ELATeam. 3️⃣ We’ll repost to spread the inspiration statewide! @ncpublicschools #literacy #nced