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Jodi DeVries
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Former teacher, now PhD student in Special Ed at the University of Alberta • Structured Literacy • Dyslexia • Evidence-based teaching and learning • Master’s in Mind, Brain, & Education @ Harvard GSE • Grateful to live on Treaty 6 territory
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I just did my part!
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June 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Drs. @nsachdeva.bsky.social & Jim Hewitt share about classic studies in Education, starting w/ working memory & cognitive load theory @ #RedTO25. I was just discussing this w/ @numcog.bsky.social over lunch. I wish all teachers learned about this in their BEd training! It changed my teaching so much
Drs. Sachdeva and Hewitt in front of a slide about cognitive load theory. Drs. Sachdeva and Hewitt in front of a slide about implications of cognitive load theory.
June 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Great talk!
Dr. Ansari speaks, while a summary of his main points is on the slide behind him.
June 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Listening to @numcog.bsky.social share about automaticity of math facts. I’m always intrigued by the parallels between math and literacy in both robust research findings and common pushback arguments.
Dr. Ansari begins his presentation.
June 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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At #redTO25, @j-metsala.bsky.social is delivering a great summary of the history of reading instruction and the alignment and misalignment with research along the way.
Dr. Jamie Metsala stands beside a screen, giving a keynote lecture under a massive stained glass window in a church at ResearchEd in Toronto.
June 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I finally got around to looking at the December issue of Nomanis. Looks like there are some great articles in there to bookmark for later reading.
#SOR #ScienceOfReading

www.nomanis.com.au/blog/issue-1...
Photo of the cover of Nomanis with the title "The Write Stuff: Focus on Handwriting."
March 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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On the Sunday - July 20.
(Here’s an unedited photo that I took of Lake Louise as extra inspiration, haha!)
Beautiful turquoise waters of Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta.
January 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Although we might be inclined to think of #ReadingComprehension as a single ability, measurable by a single assessment, the @rand.org heuristic suggests otherwise. 🧵
#EduSky
The RAND model of reading comprehension is shown as a series of concentric circles. The inner circle is split like a pie into three sections: text, activity, and reader. These three components are positioned inside an outer circle that is labelled "sociocultural context". The title on the image is "A Heuristic for Thinking About Reading Comprehension."
November 14, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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How can we support students in moving from reading single-syllable words to reading longer words? This article is one of my go-to recommendations for that. (Image is a screenshot; click link to access).
#EduSky
#ELA

education.ufl.edu/patterson/fi...
Screen capture of the first page of the article entitled “Helping Students with Dyslexia Read Long Words Using Syllables and Morphemes”
November 13, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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I’m happily celebrating the return of beautiful-sunsets-from-the-lab season with @profwool.bsky.social.
A photo from an upper-level office window with other buildings in the foreground and a sunset in the background. Two parallel horizontal banks of clouds are lit with blazing golden hues.
November 11, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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The language that is used in books is different than what is used conversationally. This is one of the reasons why it's crucial to expose children to rich text. Kate Nation & colleagues put together this lovely, open-access review article on this topic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 4, 2023 at 7:02 PM
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Sight words, high frequency words, & orthographic mapping ➡️Important terms for teachers to know & understand, but a lot of confusion exists about them. Dr. Tiffany Peltier breaks them down clearly in this quick and easy read: www.nwea.org/blog/2023/wh...
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December 1, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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Also, how great is this?!
December 1, 2023 at 5:26 PM
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I love how morphology has the capacity to bring so much vocabulary to light! #EduSky

(Image source: Adams, M.J. (1990). Beginning to read: Thinking and learning about print. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, as cited in Carlisle (2010), Effects of instruction in morphological awareness...)
"Somehow, the insight that fid means “trust” or “faith” significantly alters and connects my understanding of words like confidence, fidelity, fiduciary, and bona fide; the discovery that path means “suffering” alters and connects my understanding of words like sympathy, psychopath, and pathologist; and so on."
November 29, 2023 at 7:15 PM