Podcast Highlights
(Audience: ALL)
Each week we get more opportunities to learn about highly effective classroom strategies through great podcast sessions. Below you will find a few of our favorite topics from this last month.
Literacy Talks: A Big Conversation about Small Group Instruction
In this episode, Stacy Hurst, Lindsay Kemeny, and Donell Pons discuss the power of targeted small group instruction across the grade levels. Each host shares insightful practical tips for planning, organizing, and evaluating small group time. There are great ideas for supporting independent work during this time as well.
Click to listen to Session 5: Episode 2
Amplify: The Science of Reading podcast: Comprehension is an outcome, with Sharon Vaughn
In this episode, Dr. Vaughn clarifies the importance of recognizing reading comprehension as an outcome and how to best support students in their quest to reach that outcome. She also shares her desire for educators to better understand the components of the science of reading with clear messaging and practical strategies to support background knowledge development and comprehension.
Click here to listen to Session 8 Episode 10
Melissa and Lori Love Literacy: What Research Says About Phonemic Awareness with Matt Burns
There has been a lot of interest in this topic lately. In this episode, researcher Matt Burns explains the importance of specific phonological awareness skills and how to best determine focused needs. He shares what research has proven is needed to develop strong reading skills and why adding graphemes to phonemic awareness activities is so valuable. He gives very practical tips and examples for implementing his recommendations.
Click here to listen to Episode 181
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