Ep. 70: Science of Reading Part 1: Decodable ...

Episode 248There’s a saying we hear often in literacy work: you don’t want to try to intervene your way out of a Tier 1 problem. Real change happens when classroom instruction and small-group support are aligned.In this episode, we’re joined by Kerry Cusick and Erin Sharon, two r ...  Show more

Episode 143 This conversation remains one of our most downloaded episodes and for good reason.As we focus this month on small-group instruction, we’re revisiting this important discussion with a team of authors who published the article Maximizing Small-Group Reading Instruction. ...  Show more

Shannon and Mary discuss a professional article, "Why Phonics Teaching Must Change" published in Educational Leadership, September, 2008 by Jeannine Herron. They talk about a different approach to teaching students to read.  What if we focus more on encoding rather t ...

In this episode of The Stellar Teacher Podcast, I dive into a critical topic for upper elementary classrooms: supporting multilingual learners (MLLs). With the help of experts Dr. Jana Echevarría and Dr. Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez, we explore why the term “multilingual learner” ...  Show more

This episode focuses on cracking the alphabetic code in part two of studying the article Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert by Anne Castles, Kathleen Rastle, and Kate Nation. The discussion emphasizes the significance of spoken language ...

<span style='font-weight: 400;'>How are SLPs different than reading teachers? </span>  

<span style='font-weight: 400;'>This is a question I see a lot in my SLP Elevate membership. People want to know how we can differentiate ourselves from a standard reading t ...