Jill White ARI RLS

06/24/2025

Please join us for another impactful session on text-dependent writing!
🗓️ Tuesday, July 8, 2025
⏰ 8:30-11:30 AM
🏫 UAB Hill Center

This session is for K-5 teachers, interventionists, local reading specialists and administrators that desire support with text-dependent writing!

Be sure to register in PowerSchool!

06/17/2025

Proud of the hard work and determination shown by Leeds Elementary teachers and students!! Congratulations!

The results from the 2024-2025 ACAP Reading Test are in, and our Leeds Elementary School 3rd grade students rocked it! Congratulations to the entire LES staff on this huge accomplishment. It takes a village! 💚

06/17/2025

📚💚Purposeful instruction with many opportunities for student success is the mission of Barrett Elementary’s Summer Literacy Camp! I saw students engaged in instruction targeted to their needs such as three part drill, decoding blending lines, letter name and sound activities, encoding, and reading decodable text.
A special treat yesterday for the Kindergarten and 1st grade students was traveling across the street to the newly reopened East Lake Library for an educational (and interactive) presentation on reptiles! Students gained important background knowledge and vocabulary and memorable experiences getting hands on with the animals! 🐢🐍🦎

06/07/2025

TRL PA Members,

Welcome to Summer Skill Saturdays! Each Saturday this summer, I will share a resource focused on a literacy skill or strategy!
This is the second Saturday in this series.

This Saturday, it’s Sight Word Saturday! This week, I am sharing six resources to deepen your knowledge and practice related to how words become sight words!
Here is a summary of the six resources curated on the infographic I am sharing with everyone for this Summer Skill Saturday:

1. The Illusion of Whole Word Reading: By Dr. Stanislas Dehaene
From this short snip of, How The Brain Learns to Read , we will dip into the myth of whole word reading, and oh how that French accent makes this video even better!!! You can watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GI3-kiLdo&t=1115s

2. Increasing activity in the area of the brain best wired for reading: This resource embeds a Read, Listen, Watch and DO related to the fascinating research conducted by Dr. Bruce Mc Candliss.

3. This outstanding PaTTAN Literacy Snippet: Sight Recognition: Making it Stick, summarizes how we develop a sight word vocabulary in just 6 minutes!

4. The Reading League PA was honored to host eminent researcher and translator of research, Dr. Katie Pace Miles. Dr. Miles joined us for a presentation on, Types of High Frequency Words: Implications for Instruction. Like those who attended this session live, you will be glued to every minute of this recorded presentation.

5. Just this past week, Molly Ness and Dr. Katie Pace Miles joined edWeb for a webinar related to their upcoming Scholastic Book, Orthographic Mapping: How to Make Words Stick. Over 4,000 people registered for this webinar and for good reason!
This book is sure to be a blockbuster! In addition to the incredible knowledge shared in this webinar, a four-step instructional routine for making words stick was shared. Goto the link on the infographic to register at edWeb to watch the recording if you missed it!

6. Finally, the resource page from the website of Dr. Katie Pace Miles is chock-full of resources not to be missed. Related to this week’s Summer Skill Saturdays, be sure not to miss the High Frequency Word resources and take the time to explore so much more on this incredible site!

That’s it for this Saturday!! There was so much more I wanted to share this week, so be on the lookout throughout the coming week for some additional resources. I hope it is a sunny summer Saturday wherever you are!

The link to this week’s Summer Skills Saturdays infographic with all 6 curated resources follows: bit.ly/43kkdYh

The link to a PDF of this post can be found here: https://bit.ly/4kfYyGx

Happy Weekend to One and All!
Pam

06/07/2025

I’m so proud to serve the children of Region 5 alongside Dr. Curtrina Jones. She is very deserving of this honor.

06/05/2025

TRL PA Members,

It’s a Marvelous Monday to access an exceptional resource from the Center Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU): Decoding Tips for Parents: 5 Common Word Reading Errors and How to Help.

These tips are helpful for families as well as educators! I created an infographic of the : 5 Common Word Reading Errors and How to Help. You can click on the hyperlink to go directly there at this link: https://dyslexia.mtsu.edu/ebooks/

While you are there, be sure to check out the other amazing resources for families and educators that MTSU offers!
Access the infographic here: https://bit.ly/3Fx6rIM

05/06/2025

The 🏆GOLD🏆standard in learning best practices in teaching reading! You will not regret this investment in your professional learning!

Cohort 9 Registration for Enrollment Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) - 2025

Cohort 9 is open for registration May 1, 2025, through August 29, 2025, for Alabama's Public/Public Charter School educators, including professors in Alabama's Educator Prep Programs.

📚Kickoff sessions will begin August 2025.

📚Virtual and In-Person training opportunity sessions will begin September 2025 and will be offered by the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) throughout the 2025-2026 school year.

📚LETRS K-12 is a 2 YR Course with a 2 YR License

📚LETRS for Early Childhood is a 1 YR Course with a 1 YR License

📚LETRS for Administrators is a 2 YR Course with a 2 YR License

Sign Up Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRFEaafjuLxIu1JLBXQAd91geKn6Q6Yw3BYXzWX-m_zaDrHg/viewform

05/05/2025

May Matters at Barrett Elementary! Teachers and students are finishing strong while working on reading fluency.
Teachers are learning more about the Analytics and Insights platform to help inform important decisions.

05/05/2025

THIS STRATEGY WORKS!! The best part is that it is relatively easy to implement and helps all students involved!