Reading Roundtable

PODCAST · education

Reading Roundtable

Reading Roundtable is a professional learning podcast from Creative Consulting with Heather McCain. Each episode connects Science of Reading research to practical classroom implementation, offering clear guidance, reflection questions, and actionable strategies for K–5 teachers, coaches, principals, and instructional leaders.

  1. 1

    Episode 1: What the Science of Reading Really Means in Practice

    In this first episode of Reading Roundtable, Heather McCain explores what the Science of Reading really means in classroom practice. This coaching conversation clarifies common misconceptions, explains the importance of both word recognition and language comprehension, and connects research-aligned literacy instruction to practical K–5 classroom moves.Listeners will reflect on how strong core instruction, explicit teaching, vocabulary, background knowledge, and meaningful text-based discussion work together to support skilled reading.Reflection question: Where in your current literacy block are students receiving the strongest support for word recognition, and where are they receiving the strongest support for language comprehension?

Type above to search every episode's transcript for a word or phrase. Matches are scoped to this podcast.

Searching…

No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.

Showing of matches

No topics indexed yet for this podcast.

Loading reviews...

ABOUT THIS SHOW

Reading Roundtable is a professional learning podcast from Creative Consulting with Heather McCain. Each episode connects Science of Reading research to practical classroom implementation, offering clear guidance, reflection questions, and actionable strategies for K–5 teachers, coaches, principals, and instructional leaders.

HOSTED BY

Heather McCain | Creative Consulting

CATEGORIES

URL copied to clipboard!