Education

I Wrote a Book…and You Can Pre-Order It Now!

I am so thrilled to announce that Reading Assessment Done Right: Tools and Techniques for Data-Driven Instruction, which I wrote with Dr. Stephanie Stollar for the Scholastic Science of Reading in Practice series, is now available for pre-order (shipping the first week of January)! The target audience is K-6 educators (though I’ve used the content […] Read more…

Updates!

(This Mom Loves email subscribers – be sure to read to the end!) When I launched this site in 2010, blogging was all the rage. Over time, it has lost some steam (and/or I have lol) and I find myself “microblogging” on my social media accounts much more often instead. For example, if you’ve been […] Read more…

Chapter Book Read-Alouds for Kindergarten

Updated August 2025 Over the last few years as I’ve learned about evidence-based reading instruction, something I’ve seen over and over is the importance of vocabulary and content knowledge. With kindergarten kids, this isn’t something they can independently get from their reading material yet (while “The cat sits” is fantastic for decoding practice it’s a […] Read more…

Right To Read Initiative: My Two Webinars

I was thrilled to be invited to chat with Kathryn Garforth from Right To Read Initiative not once, but twice this past week. In the first video, A Journey to the Science of Reading, I talk about my teaching background, the ineffective practices I was using before, my deep dive into the science of reading, […] Read more…

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