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For those of you heading back to school, let this

For those of you heading back to school, let this be your reminder that a teacher bestie makes everything better. 🩷

Hold onto the teacher friends who brighten your day, talk through the hard stuff, and celebrate the wins! Double cheers to the ones who will nerd out about literacy with you! 🤓🩷

One of the best parts of this work has been making lasting friendships with others so deeply connected to changing literacy outcomes.

In fact, my bestie @farmerlovesphonics & I are hosting a book study this September! If you want to join our friend crew, come learn with us for a 4-week collaborative study on “Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension”!

💬 Comment BETTER for more details about our book study and
☀️Tag a teacher bestie who brightens your days! 💛

P.S. How was Science of Reading Mini-con 2 months ago already?! 🥹🤍
@scienceofreadingminicon

Wait, but I thought <f> spells /f/. 🫣 Before w

Wait, but I thought <f> spells /f/. 🫣

Before we accuse words like “phone” and “elephant” of being “irregular”…

Maybe they’re just cultured. 💅

When <ph> spells /f/, it’s Greek!
✨ graph
✨ phase
✨ phobias
✨ physically
✨ photography

English spelling carries history — and when you understand word origin plays a role, suddenly those “random” spellings don’t feel so random anymore. 👀

Honestly, the more you study morphology and etymology, the more English starts feeling less chaotic and more like one giant linguistic family reunion.

💭 Your turn:
Can you think of another word where <ph> spells /f/?

Drop it in the comments ⬇️ (Bonus points if I have to Google it 😂)

…and if getting nerdy about words is your thing, you’ll definitely want to join @snippetsbysarah & me inside @logosliteracyacademy ! 🤍

#englishspelling #wordorigin #orthography #getlogofied

Decodable texts have come a long way in recent yea

Decodable texts have come a long way in recent years, haven’t they?

Here are 6️⃣ decodable text series I absolutely adore! 😍

There are SO many great options out there, but these are the ones I find myself recommending again and again.

(…They also tug at my heart strings, because many are the ones I used to teach my own daughter how to read! 🥹)

@chargemommybooks
@expressreaders
@decodableadventureseries
@high_noon_books
@wholephonics
@litchamps

Now, I want to hear your favorites! What decodable book series would you add to the list? 💬⬇️

Save this post for your next book order and send it to a teacher friend who is building their decodable library!

Be sure to follow @michelle_thecolorfulclassroom for more Science of Reading aligned content, resources, and conversations that bring research into the classroom!

KPM x NYC = a recipe for success! If you follow

KPM x NYC = a recipe for success!

If you follow the research, Dr. Katie Pace Miles has made so many contributions to the field regarding orthographic mapping and early literacy skills… but her influence goes well beyond published papers.

The work she is doing through @thereadinginstitutenyc & CUNY Reading Fellows with high-impact tutoring & intervention is something all early educators should hear about.

Comment READY for a link to listen! 🎧

…and be sure to come back and share in the comments: do you have any experience with “Reading Ready”, “Reading Go” or even the Advanced Certificate in Reading Science from Brooklyn College?! I’d love to hear about your experience!

✨One more treat!✨
This podcast is brought to you by Reading Science Academy (@readingscienceacademy), where our friend Stephanie Stollar is giving Literacy in Color listeners an exclusive, free grouping resource bundle to help you turn fall screening data into skill-based groups that actually move students forward.

#literacyincolorpodcast #podcastforteachers #thereadinginstitute #readingready #cunyreadingcorps

🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉 If you’ve been followi

🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉

If you’ve been following along, you know I already hosted two Megabook Giveaways this month! This is the 3rd and final one! 🥳

ONE lucky teacher will receive a copy of “The Megabook of Vocabulary” by Dr. Tim Rasinski, Melissa Cheesman Smith, and Savannah Campbell! ✨

To enter:
✅ Like this post 🩷
✅ Follow @michelle_thecolorfulclassroom
✅ Comment below: What grade you teach and why you’d love this resource!

📦 Winner must have a U.S. mailing address.

I’ll randomly select one winner and announce them on Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 at 12pm noon ET!

Good luck! 🍎📖

#teachergiveaway #scholasticteachers #vocabulary #megabookofvocabulary #teachersofinstagram

What does the reading brain have in common with a

What does the reading brain have in common with a car? 🤔

Essentially, we can’t build strong readers on comprehension strategies alone. The reading brain needs fuel. 🧠⛽️

To dig deeper in what this fuel actually persons, comment BETTER! I’ll send you all of our book study details!

Here’s what’s included in the study:
💚 Four 1-Hour Live Book Study Sessions
💙 Video Recordings (if you cannot join us live)
💚 For Live Attendees only: A bonus half-hour of collaborative (unrecorded) discussion time
💙 Book Study Guide & Pacing Calendar
💚Bonus Downloadable Resources to Support Your Learning

We hope you join us! 🥰

#readingcomprehension #scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #readingteacher #sorbooks

There are a handful of people whose work fundament

There are a handful of people whose work fundamentally changes the way you think.

For me, Dr. Maryanne Wolf is one of those people.

Before I ever hosted a podcast, I was reading titles like “Proust and the Squid” and “Reader, Come Home”, trying to better understand how the brain learns to read and why that process is so beautifully complex. Having the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Wolf for this conversation was truly one of the highlights of my career.

In this episode, we explore what it really takes to build the reading circuit, as well as what it means to build a biliterate reading brain in this digital age.

We discuss:
🧠 HOW the brain builds the reading circuit
📚 Why meaning is essential (not optional) to skilled reading
⚡ The many faces of dyslexia, including challenges with fluency and retrieval
🔄 Multi-component approaches, like RAVE-O / POSSUM
📖 Why deep reading has never been more important in today’s world

Reading proficiency isn’t built by strengthening one strand in isolation. It’s built through the interaction and orchestration of language, decoding, fluency, and meaning-making — all working together over time.

If you’re passionate about the science of reading, the reading brain, or supporting students with dyslexia, I hope you’ll give this episode a listen. It was an absolute privilege to learn from one of the field’s most influential voices.

Comment BRAIN for a link to listen! 🎧

…and be sure to come back and share your thoughts in the comments! 💭

✨One more treat!✨
This podcast is brought to you by Reading Science Academy (@readingscienceacademy), where our friend Stephanie Stollar is giving Literacy in Color listeners an exclusive, free grouping resource bundle to help you turn fall screening data into skill-based groups that actually move students forward.

#literacyincolorpodcast #podcastforteachers #scienceofreading #proustandthesquid #readercomehome

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