All Episodes

8.10 Season Finale: Beyond Decoding

8.9 Teacher Preparation

8.8 Grammar and Syntax

8.7 Supporting Learning at Home

8.6 Deliberate Orthography

8.5 The Literacy Block

8.4 SEL Concerns

8.3 Affirming Practices with Dr. Jasmine Rogers

8.2 Treasured Stories

8.1 New Season, New Stories

7.18 Season 7 Finale

7.17 Impactful Interventions

7.16 Executive Functioning Demands

7.15 Language Demands

7.14 Literacy Leaders

7.13 The Right Things for Our Learners

7.12 Effective Student Engagement

7.11 Structured Word Inquiry

Challenging Advanced Readers

7.9 Smart Technology

7.8 Importance of NonFiction

7.7 System Changes with LaMonica Williams

7.6 The Reading Team

7.5 Spelling that Sticks

7.4 Word Knowledge

7.3 Book Equity

7.2 Mending Teachers with Karen Gross

7.1 New Opportunities

Reading Lessons with Jennifer Serravallo

Reaching All Readers

Season 6 Finale

Meeting Students Needs

Delightful Word Learning with Colette Hiller

Supportive Strategies for Working Memory

Meaningful Professional Learning

the Intersection of Speech, Reading, and Language

the Importance of Handwriting

Date Your Data

Building Knowledge with Linda Rhyne

Ideas for Differentiation with Wiley Blevins

Gifts for Our Readers with Dr. Karen Gazith

Read Aloud to Boost Comprehension

the Comprehension Process

Best Reading Instructional Moves

We Love Mistakes

Intervention in the Upper Grades

Etymology and Orthographic Study

Back to School Reflections and Plans

Summer Reading Tips

Season 5 Finale: Ends & Beginnings

Putting the Science of Reading Into Action with Malia Hollowell from Playdough to Plato

Teaching and Reaching Diverse Learners

Practical Tips for Reading Teachers with guest Jamie Sears from Not So Wimpy Teacher

Speaking and Listening Standards

Building Reading Fluency

Building Vocabulary

Meaningful Learning Assessments

Decodable Texts with Emily Gibbons, the Literacy Nest

Simple View of Reading and Beyond with Dr. Janet Mort

Orthographic Mapping with Anna Geiger (The Measured Mom)

the Reading Brain with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg

Balancing It All as a Reading Teacher (with Guest Linda Rhyne)

Classroom Libraries with Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp

the Schwa

Our Favorite Literacy Resources

Supporting English Language Learners

Season 5 Opener: New School Year, New Season of the Podcast

School Year and Season 4 Wrap Up

Long and Short Vowels

Differentiation for Different Readers

Just Right Reading Books for Families and Students

Sound Walls

Phonemic Awareness: In the Dark or With Letters?

Morphology

New Understandings about Encoding

The Updated Ladder of Reading and Writing

The Importance of Storytelling

Supporting Reading Teachers

Scarborough's Reading Rope with Tess Kraft

Science of Reading with Heidi Martin

Chatting about Scope and Sequence with Wiley Blevins

Season 4 Opener: Back To School & Together Again

Season 3 Finale

Auditory Learners

Making the Most of Your Online Reading Instruction

Visual Learning

Make It Multisensory

It's Time to Talk About Dr. Seuss

Books as Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors (Diverse Books)

Season 2 Finale

We love FCRR!

Spelling Tests: Good or Bad? with special guest Alison from Learning at the Primary Pond

Shared Reading

Reading Wars

Balanced Literacy versus Structured Literacy

Independent Reading

Read Aloud

Guided Reading

Alphabetic Principle

More Listener Questions Answered

Kids Who Fly Under the Radar

Listener Questions Answered

Students Need Systematic, Explicit Phonics - ILA says so!

Back to School

Hands On Learning in the Summer

Necessary Phonics Lessons

Facilitating Digital Learning

Teacher Jargon Defined: Phoneme and Grapheme

Encoding First, Decoding Second

Preschool Literacy

Teacher Jargon Defined: Executive Functioning

Authentic Writing

Mindfulness About Learning

All About Consonants

Let's Talk About Phonemic Awareness

A Conversation about ZPD and Rigor

B and D Reversals

The Big Secret: Recognizing a Struggling Reader

A Conversation About Dyslexia

All About Sight Words

All About Syllables

All About Vowel Teams

All About R-Controlled Vowels

All About Long Vowels

All About Short Vowels

Learning Disabilities 101

Decoding the MAP test

Getting to Know Your Readers

Becoming a Reading Teacher

Introduction, Why we became teachers