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This podcast is for educators interested in the science of reading who want to hear the latest research on teaching reading and writing and learn how to make it practical for your classroom. Our guests include some of the most well-known literacy researchers and experts, as well as teachers and leaders doing the hard work every day!
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Love Starts Here is a podcast for smart, ambitious, successful single women who want a long-term relationship with a man who is their equal! Love and Life Coach Melissa Snow shares her expertise and welcomes guests to discuss topics like online dating, self-worth, avoiding toxic relationships, sex, self-confidence, and so much more! Whether you're single, dating or "It's Complicated," this podcast is exactly what you need to take your love and life to the next level. Love and Life Coach Meli ...
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Nancy Hennessy and Julia Salamone discuss the importance of vocabulary and syntax in reading comprehension. They explain how vocabulary connects to reading comprehension and the different levels of word knowledge. They also emphasiz…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From Aug 4, 2023 What if the key to unlocking your students' reading comprehension could be found through a deeper understanding of the intricate processes at work in their minds? Prepare to have your teaching world transformed as w…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Lindsay Kemeny discusses her book 7 Mighty Moves and the importance of teaching literacy effectively. The conversation covers the development of the 7 moves, which focus on phonemic awareness, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From Mar 18, 2022 How can regular fluency practice lead to fluent readers? In today’s episode, educators Lorraine Griffith and Lindsay Kemeny discuss the impact of fluency in their classrooms. Fluency is a bridge: It connects word r…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Our guests today, authors Tricia Zucker and Sonia Cabell, discuss the concept of Strive-For-Five Conversations, which emphasizes the importance of multi-turn conversations between teachers and students. They explain that the goal is…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From Jul 15, 2022 Dr. Sonia Cabell, Associate Professor at Florida State University, shares the importance of both oral language and content knowledge instruction. Why? Oral language skills underlie our ability to comprehend text. A…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Heidi Anne Mesmer discusses her book Big Words for Young Readers. She emphasizes the importance of teaching young readers to decode and understand words with multiple syllables and morphemes. Heidi Anne highlights the need to teach …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From Nov 4, 2022 Researcher Heidi Anne Mesmer joins the podcast to discuss the research on decodable text and dos and don'ts for classroom practice. Thinking about decodability as a meter from most to least decodable to the reader i…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Anna Geiger, author of "Reach All Readers," joins us on the pod today. Anna takes us on a historical reading journey, from the early reading wars of the 1800s to debates between whole language and balanced literacy, up to the presen…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From Sep 21, 2020 The article Placing Text at the Center of the Standards-Aligned ELA Classroom is a must-read before or after listening to this podcast! Meredith Liben and Sue Pimentel share the true intentions of the CCSS vs. the …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) In this episode, Meredith and David Liben discuss the importance of comprehension instruction, the power of questions, and the practice of close reading. They emphasize the value of curiosity, vocabulary depth, and the features of c…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Unlock the potential of your ELA instruction by shifting to a knowledge-rich curriculum! Join us as we sit down with David Liben, co-author of Know Better, Do Better, to hear stories about knowledge-building goodness. David highligh…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Kim Lockhart, Canadian educator, shares her top three book recommendations. The first recommendation is 'Next Steps in Literacy Instruction' by Susan Smart and Deb Glaser, which focuses on the multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Read Not Guess is a FREE program designed for parents to help their children improve their early reading skills. The lessons are short and simple, taking only 5 to 10 minutes per day. The program is email-based, with parents receivi…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Melissa & Lori discuss questions about reading comprehension from our new book, The Literacy 50: A Q&A Handbook for Teachers, and provide research-based answers and practical suggestions. We talk about the place of sustained silent …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Melissa & Lori discuss questions about phonemic awareness from our new book, The Literacy 50: A Q&A Handbook for Teachers. We talk about best practices for teaching phonemic awareness and whether to teach it with or without naming a…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) The tables are turned on us in today's episode! Anna Geiger interviews us about our new book, The Literacy 50. You might know Anna as The Measured Mom and host of the Triple R Teaching podcast. We loved divulging why we wrote the bo…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Today's sneak peek episode gives you a behind the scenes look at why we wrote this book, the questions we answer, and resources we crafted just for you! We wrote a book! The Literacy 50-A Q&A Handbook for Teachers: Real-World Answer…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Unlock the potential in every multilingual learner as Claude Goldenberg, renowned professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, joins us to dispel myths and share crucial strategies in literacy education. Delve into the co…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) We discuss various models for teaching English learners to read with Magdalena Zavalia, CEO of the PAF Reading Program. We explore different types of models, including monolingual programs, transitional bilingual education, and dual…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From August 5, 2022 Dr. Elsa Cardenas-Hagan joins the podcast to share that reading science works for English Learners. What does it mean to use evidence-based instruction to teach English Learners? Dr. Cardenas-Hagan asserts that e…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) In this conversation, Stephanie Stollar discusses the implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). MTSS is a framework for school improvement that helps to provide support for students with various needs. The MTSS frame…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) In this episode, Savannah Campbell, a K-5 reading specialist, shares practical spelling tips for teachers. She emphasizes the importance of having students say the sounds or syllables as they spell, as it helps develop sound-symbol …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Pam Kastner discusses the connection between spelling and reading. She emphasizes that teaching spelling is teaching reading, as spelling is a higher linguistic skill that requires complete and accurate recall and memory for words. …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From 3/4/2022 We’ve been asked about spelling and the connection to reading science more times than we can count. Today, we talk with expert J. Richard Gentry, author of Brain Words and blog contributor to Psychology Today: Raising …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) In this episode, Jessica Farmer shares tips for teaching heart words. She explains the importance of blending and introduces the concept of continuous blending. Jessica defines heart words as high-frequency words with irregular or t…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Julie VanLier and Dr. Svetlana Cvetkovic discuss their experiences and successes teaching phonics. They both highlight the importance of a speech-to-print approach and the impact it has had on their students' reading and spelling ab…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) From August 12, 2022 Talking with Dr. Julia Lindsey is like popping into the classroom next door to chat with your best teacher friend after school. On this podcast, Julia shares what evidence says that young readers need to know to…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Yvette Manns discusses the schwa and its importance. She shares insights from her book, The Not So Lazy Schwa, and explains how it helps children understand the schwa sound. Yvette also tells all about National Schwa Day, a holiday …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Danielle Colenbrander and Katie Pace-Miles discuss orthographic mapping, irregular word instruction, and the different terms used to describe high frequency and irregular words. They translate research about the effectiveness of dif…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Denise Eide, author of Uncovering the Logic of English, helps us understand the logic of English! It actually makes a lot of sense... and can help your students learn to read and spell. Takeaways English spelling and decoding can be…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) In this episode, teacher Christina Winter, better known as Mrs. Winters Bliss on Instagram, talks about the practical application of sound walls in the classroom. She provides her top 3 tips and shares how sound walls can be used in…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Sound wall expert Mary Dahlgren explains how sound walls differ from word walls, why it's important to teach all 44 speech sounds, and how sound walls can help students make sense of English. She shares evidence to support the use o…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Spencer Russell, a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher and the founder of Toddlers Can Read, shares his motivation for teaching reading and emphasizes the importance of simplifying the teaching process. He provides practical…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) In this conversation, Becky Pallone and Michael Hart discuss how their phonemic awareness instruction has evolved over time. They emphasize the importance of blending and segmenting as key skills in phonemic awareness and highlight …
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Melissa and Lori just returned from the Plain Talk About Literacy & Learning Conference in New Orleans and they will share their takeaways with YOU! Attendees called in while at the conference to share aha moments and key takeaways.…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Matt Burns discusses the importance of phonemic awareness in reading instruction. Phonemic awareness is an outcome of skilled reading, not a precursor, and it has a reciprocal relationship with reading. Matt also emphasizes the need…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Shayne Piasta discusses best practices for teaching alphabet knowledge. She tells us what the research suggests about teaching letter names and sounds, why teaching a letter of the week may not be the most effective approach, and an…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Summary In this episode, the hosts discuss the RAND Model, a heuristic for thinking about reading comprehension. The model was developed in the late 1990s by the RAND Corporation in response to a need for more research on comprehens…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Summary In this episode, Hugh Catts discusses two popular reading models: the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough's Reading Rope. The Simple View of Reading highlights the importance of word recognition and language comprehension…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Summary In this episode, the hosts discuss the five pillars from the National Reading Panel and their history. They explore the confusion that can arise from viewing these pillars as a model of how reading works. The role of fluency…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) FROM MARCH 10, 2023 Today we’ll be talking to a team of authors about a recent article they published on small group instruction, titled Maximizing Small-Group Reading Instruction. We ask and answer important questions about small g…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Why shouldn’t we level students? Professor and researcher Kristin Conradi-Smith from episode 143 says, “We lack research for differentiation by text levels.There's simply no support for it.” Teaching with a leveled reading, sometime…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) FROM FEBRUARY 24, 2023 In today’s episode, we discuss the structure and content of the literacy block. How can we teach using structured literacy in small groups? Kinder teacher Casey Jergens and author Natalie Wexler join us to con…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) What does the research say about small group reading instruction? Resources Episode 142: Structured Literacy in Small Group Time Episode 143: Maximizing Small Group Reading Instruction Maximizing Small Group Reading Instruction (Con…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) FROM JULY 7, 2023 Today we talk about fluency and assessment with Jan Hasbrouck. She shares tips and tricks for how to to best assess and teach fluency. She also debunks frequent fluency misunderstandings and explains the scientific…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Is your district adopting a new English language arts/literacy curriculum? Have you wondered how to tell if an ELA curriculum is “knowledge-building?” Today we’ll be talking to Barbara Davidson and Sue Pimentel about a new curriculu…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) FROM JULY 14, 2023 What if you could unlock the secrets to fluency instruction in literacy, and transform your students into confident and skilled readers? Join us as we delve into this crucial topic with Nathaniel Swain, Senior Lec…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) Funds of Knowledge are the skills and knowledge gained by daily routines and practices, as well as cultural and historical interactions. It’s the social and cultural “stuff” that students know through personal experiences. Backgroun…
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We would love to hear from you! Send us a message (if you'd like a reply, email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org) FROM AUGUST 4, 2023 What if the key to unlocking your students' reading comprehension could be found through a deeper understanding of the intricate processes at work in their minds? Prepare to have your teaching world transformed a…
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