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20/08/2024

Reminder: Storyshares *free* webinar today: Teaching With Decodable Texts. Don't miss out!!

📖Ready to enhance your literacy toolkit? Join our FREE webinar ‘Teaching With Decodable Texts’! Learn how to use decodable texts to empower striving readers, particularly those in grades 3-12.

📆August 20 @ 4PM EST

⬆️ Registration link in our bio!

19/08/2024

🌟 Storyshares Contest Winner Spotlight: Cat Jenkins 🌟

As we gear up for our 2024 Writing Contest, we're thrilled to feature some of our past winners! Meet Cat Jenkins, author of The Market at Night, a magical tale set in Seattle's iconic Pike Place Market. 🌙✨

Cat's love for the Market and her passion for writing led her to win the "50 States" category in our 2021 contest.

Discover her story and see how winning the contest has shaped her journey! 📚💫

Find The Market at Night in our eLibrary or grab it in our Best of Storyshares High School Paperback Bundle.

19/08/2024

🌟 Storyshares Contest Winner Spotlight: Cat Jenkins 🌟

As we gear up for our 2024 Writing Contest, we’re thrilled to feature some of our past winners! Meet Cat Jenkins, author of The Market at Night, a magical tale set in Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market. 🌙✨

Cat’s love for the Market and her passion for writing led her to win the “50 States” category in our 2021 contest.

Discover her story and see how winning the contest has shaped her journey! 📚💫

Find The Market at Night in our eLibrary or grab it in our Best of Storyshares High School Paperback Bundle.

15/08/2024

🥳We're gearing up for the launch of our Story of the Year Contest in less than one month! Hear from Louise Baigelman, Storyshares founder + CEO, about how one groundbreaking idea evolved into a literacy movement.

As we gear up for our 7th annual writing contest at Storyshares, it is amazing to reflect on where it all began: a single writing contest – an experiment to test the waters. The very first Storyshares contest launched in 2013. It was, and still is, a project designed to address the lack of engagin...

13/08/2024

📖Ready to enhance your literacy toolkit? Join our FREE webinar ‘Teaching With Decodable Texts’! Learn how to use decodable texts to empower striving readers, particularly those in grades 3-12.

📆August 20 @ 4PM EST

⬆️ Registration link in our bio!

12/08/2024

The annual Story of the Year Contest is a community effort to build a library of fresh, diverse stories that are “easy to read and hard to put down” for striving readers beyond the third grade.

The 2024 competition launches in one month!

Winners will receive thousands of dollars in cash prizes, publication in both digital
and print form, and global distribution.

Entries are free and unlimited for participants worldwide.

08/08/2024

Storyshares is hosting a webinar on August 20th @ 4 PM! Teaching with Decodable Texts will teach you how to leverage decodable texts to reach striving readers in grades 3 and up.

We’ll cover:

✅ Science of reading-aligned solutions for striving teenage readers
✅ How to utilize decodable texts, particularly with older readers
✅ Strategies to boost decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills

Join us! It’s free. Register now using this link:

https://www.storyshares.org/blog/coming-soon-storyshares-webinar-on-teaching-with-decodable-texts

08/08/2024

Big news! Storyshares could be a potential participant of the SXSW EDU 2025 Panel…but we need YOUR SUPPORT to make this happen.

With your vote, Louise Baigelman’s panel will champion the millions of underserved youth voices in education today.

Just 17% of Black students, 21% of Latino students, 11% of students with disabilities, and 10% of multilingual learners can read proficiently by fourth grade (NAEP, 2023). Thus far, no one has cracked the code of how to engage and empower struggling readers to strengthen literacy skills beyond elementary school. We will discuss approaches to literacy instruction that provide equitable access for marginalized students: bridging the Science of Reading with culturally relevant content and digital accessibility, to enable inclusive and targeted interventions for underserved learners.

Use this link to vote now! http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/148869

08/08/2024

Storyshares is hosting a webinar on August 20th @ 4 PM! Teaching with Decodable Texts will teach you how to leverage decodable texts to reach striving readers in grades 3 and up.

We’ll cover:

✅ Science of reading-aligned solutions for striving teenage readers
✅ How to utilize decodable texts, particularly with older readers
✅ Strategies to boost decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills

Join us! It’s free. Register now using this link.
https://www.storyshares.org/blog/coming-soon-storyshares-webinar-on-teaching-with-decodable-texts

08/08/2024

Big news! Storyshares could be a potential participant of the SXSW EDU 2025 Panel…but we need YOUR SUPPORT to make this happen.

With your vote, Louise Baigelman’s panel will champion the millions of underserved youth voices in education today.

Just 17% of Black students, 21% of Latino students, 11% of students with disabilities, and 10% of multilingual learners can read proficiently by fourth grade (NAEP, 2023). Thus far, no one has cracked the code of how to engage and empower struggling readers to strengthen literacy skills beyond elementary school. We will discuss approaches to literacy instruction that provide equitable access for marginalized students: bridging the Science of Reading with culturally relevant content and digital accessibility, to enable inclusive and targeted interventions for underserved learners.

Use this link to vote now! http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/148869

06/08/2024

📚Storyshares founder and CEO, Louise Baigelman, will be hosting an informative webinar on teaching with decodable texts. Interested? Sign up early using this exclusive link to attend on Tuesday, August 20th at 4 PM. Join us! It’s free.

https://www.storyshares.org/blog/coming-soon-storyshares-webinar-on-teaching-with-decodable-texts

02/08/2024

There’s magic in writing 😊✨

01/08/2024

Storyshares founder and CEO, Louise Baigelman, will be hosting an informative webinar on teaching with decodable texts. Interested? Sign up early using this exclusive link to attend on Tuesday, August 20th at 4 PM. Join us! It’s free.

https://www.storyshares.org/blog/coming-soon-storyshares-webinar-on-teaching-with-decodable-texts

24/07/2024

Storyshares is on a mission to transform the journey of underserved readers worldwide 👏

Click the link in the bio to learn more 🏆

24/07/2024

Storyshares is on a mission to transform the outlook of underserved readers worldwide ✨

22/07/2024

Storyshares decodable chapter books are UNIQUE…and here’s why. Tap the link in our bio to learn more. 👏

17/07/2024

Effective decoding skills form the foundation of fluent reading. They empower readers to tackle unfamiliar words they encounter in text, fostering independent reading and comprehension.

Click the link in our bio to continue reading Storyshares Tuesday Tidbit on decoding ✨

15/07/2024

According to the NAEP reading test, in 2013 only 36% percent of eighth graders were reading at or above grade level. Additionally, over the past three years, average NAEP reading scores for 13 year olds have dropped by 4 points. The National High School Center reports that 70% of high school students need some form of reading remediation. While there has recently been a great deal of attention given to literacy practices in grades K-2, teenagers who struggle with reading are frequently left behind.

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This post dives into the Science of Reading as it relates to readers in grades 3+, and offers practical tips and resources specifically for this subset of striving readers. You can find the complete and in-depth resource guide on the Storyshares blog. Click the link in our bio to learn more.

08/07/2024

Storyshares won the Global Recognition Award! 🏆📚

Storyshares has been recognized with a 2024 Global Recognition Award for its outstanding contributions to literacy education, particularly among striving readers in grades 4-12. Founded by CEO Louise Baigelman, Storyshares has demonstrated exceptional growth and innovation, significantly impacting the education sector. Storyshares has catered to youth needs worldwide publishing over 500 titles available in digital and paperback formats.

Thank you for this honor!

18/06/2024

Happy Birthday to our spectacular founder and CEO Louise Kraft Baigelman! ✨📚

Thanks to her leadership efforts and fantastic passion, Storyshares has published over 500 decodable and high-low books serving older striving readers in 149 US schools and 180 countries.

- The Storyshares Team

31/05/2024

Exciting news!!! Storyshares is offering free access to our library of over 500 digital books for the entire summer for students, teachers, and parents, as part of our commitment to fighting summer reading loss. Click here to sign up for your free subscription:

Storyshares is offering free access to our library of over 500 digital books for the entire summer for students, teachers, and parents, as part of our commitment to fighting summer reading loss.

14/05/2024

Is early literacy enough? Storyshares CEO Louise Baigelman's latest op-ed delves into the critical need for continued literacy support beyond the early grades. Join the conversation - let's ensure ALL students have the opportunity to become strong readers. Louise Kraft Baigelman

If the state’s goal of improving literacy education is to be successful, it must supply teachers with tools for not only the younger grades, but the older grades as well.

06/05/2024

Check out our feature in !! “Storyshares: Louise Baigelman’s Big Idea That Might Change the World” ✨

06/05/2024

“As a part of our series about “Big Ideas That Might Change The World In The Next Few Years” we had the pleasure of interviewing Louise Baigelman, Founder & CEO of Storyshares.”

Authority Magazine, Medium

https://medium.com/authority-magazine/storyshares-louise-baigelmans-big-idea-that-might-change-the-world-fb6296d3becd

Louise Kraft Baigelman

You will make the wrong choices; what matters is to learn from them. I have made some huge and humbling mistakes along this journey…

29/04/2024

What are decodable texts and why should I use them? Look no further... https://www.storyshares.org/blog/enhancing-literacy-instruction-with-decodable-texts