Interview with Neena Saha
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All About Neena Saha: Neena earned her master’s degree in educational neuroscience from Columbia and has a PhD in special education from Vanderbilt. Her doctoral work on decoding resulted in a patent and her research can be found in journals like The Journal for Learning Disabilities and The Reading and Writing Interdisciplinary Journal. Upon graduating, Neena founded Elemeno, which helps bridge the research practice gap in early literacy. Meta Metrics acquired Elemeno and Neena joined their team to help build out early literacy products, tools, and services. Neena also continued...
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Structuring Literacy Blocks
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Scheduling literacy blocks and finding enough time in a day is an ever-present challenge in our classrooms. How do we do it, and where do we start? Today, we’ll go over some of the challenges we face, what to do about them, and how we can get in the time we need to teach literacy. The Challenges of Literacy Blocks Not enough time Teachers are interrupted many times a day with student needs, broken copiers, announcements, and so on. There’s sometimes simply not enough time in our day to implement literacy blocks in the way we’d like. Overload of materials You...
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Interview with Meghan Hein
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All About Meghan Hein: Proudly been in education for 20 years with jobs as a 2nd grade teacher as well as a math coach. Eventually transitioned into a literacy intervention teacher and served there for 5 years. She’s now back in the classroom using the skills and knowledge she learned as a literacy interventionist.
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Letter Formation
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The Complexity of Letter Formation Letter formation is the foundation for literacy development. This is because practicing letter formation helps students with shapes and sounds of letters, which is important for foundational reading skills. Students also need fine motor skills in order to accomplish appropriate letter formation. Good letter formation needs good fine motor skills. Writing by hand engages the parts of the brain that enhance memory and learning. When students are writing the letter and saying the sound, we’re helping them make the sounds...
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Alphabet Quest
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The Birth of Alphabet Quest During the pandemic, I was asked to leave my literacy coaching role and teach kindergarten. When I went back to the classroom, I discovered that we were in desperate need of speeding up and enriching how we learned our alphabet. My time in the classroom was what birthed a really fun and effective idea I had: Alphabet Quest! Alphabet Quest is the idea of teaching the alphabet in an intense, systematic (and faster) way. I returned to my literacy coaching role and introduced Alphabet Quest to my co-workers. Instead of...
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Interview with Melanie Brethour
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All About Melanie Brethour: Full-time elementary resource teacher in Montreal, Canada and also a parent to a child with severe dyslexia. Passionate about dyslexia and the science of reading, specifically supporting parents through navigating the dyslexia journey. Her son was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of nine. This influenced her to learn more about dyslexia and how she could support both her son and her students. Founded Decoding Dyslexia Quebec, which raises awareness about dyslexia and gives support to educators and parents. Her passion resides in sharing resources...
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Developing Readers Academy with Megan & Laura
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All About Megan & Laura from Developing Readers Academy: Both taught in the same intervention room at a school in Minnesota. After looking at their end-of-the-year data, they realized their students simply were not making progress. Megan and Laura then went through LETRS and Orton Gillingham training to sharpen their skills. After that, they devoured every single SOR training and resource they could! When they implemented these practices, they instantly saw results in their intervention room. Megan and Laura wanted to ensure all kids were being given the resources that they...
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Interview with Jake Daggett
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All About Jake Daggett: Began teaching in 2015 and mostly has taught in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade classrooms. Recently took a new role as Foundational Literacy Director at a school in Milwaukee. Loves sharing ideas about the science of reading, especially about how we can make it fun and engaging for students. Focuses on the rhythm and movement in literacy classrooms.
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Interview with Wiley Blevins
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All About Wiley Blevins: Author, travel-lover, and expert in all things literacy. Comes from a history of grandparents who were illiterate - books were not a part of his everyday life. It was these limitations that encouraged him to perform well in school and learn to read. When he began teaching, he didn’t know how to teach reading, so he had to do his own mini studies in his classroom. This led him to graduate school at Harvard where he learned how children learned to read. His educational journey led him to work with and learn from people like Jeanne Chall, Marylin Adams,...
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Defining MTSS an Interview with Stephanie Stollar
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All About Dr. Stollar: Former Vice President for Professional Learning at Acadience Learning Inc. Part-time assistant professor in the online Reading Science Program at Mount St. Joseph University. Founding member of a national alliance for supporting reading science in higher education. Support educators to learn about and implement the science of reading. Consults and helps other teacher programs to align programs to reading research. Has an online membership community called The Reading Science Academy where she supports educators to learn about the science of reading...
info_outlineSavannah Campbell shares all about the importance of cumulative review!
Cumulative Review:
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Cumulative review is simply giving children enough practice in the skills that we have taught them, so they are able to read to automaticity.
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We do a great job teaching the “skills” from day to day, but what we don’t do is give them multiple opportunities to practice.
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Automaticity is a precursor to reading comprehension. We have to practice these skills 4-6 weeks after we have taught them.
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Resources for Cumulative Review:
Cumulative Review Blog Post- Savannah Campbell
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