Reading Teachers Lounge
This is the Reading Teachers Lounge where listeners can eavesdrop on professional conversations between elementary reading teachers. We are passionate about literacy and strive to find strategies to reach all learners. Shannon and Mary are neighbors who realized that they were “literacy soul sisters” at a dinner in their Atlanta neighborhood. Once they started chatting about reading they haven’t really stopped. Come join the conversation.
Reading Teachers Lounge
Reading Lessons with Jennifer Serravallo
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Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Season 6
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Episode 20
Shannon and Mary chat with Jennifer Serravallo, whose literacy work they have long admired. Jennifer shares how her view about reading instruction have evolved over time. Jennifer's written a new book showing teachers different structured models for responsive teaching called Teaching Reading Across the Day, and she gives us many ideas from us the book about how teachers can apply the art of teaching to set up their literacy blocks to best meet their students' needs.
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE
- Teaching Reading Across the Day, Grades K-8: Methods and Structures for Engaging, Explicit Instruction by Jennifer Serravallo *Amazon affiliate link
- The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 by Jennifer Serravallo *Amazon affiliate link
- The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers by Jennifer Serravallo *Amazon affiliate link
- A Systematic Review of the Research on Vocabulary Instruction that Impacts Text Comprehension by Tanya S. Write and Gina N. Cervetti
- Sci-Hub (to find reference articles)
- Re:Thinking with Adam Grant (podcast mentioned)
- Using Vocabulary Strategies for Independent Word Learning (blog on Jennifer's website and podcast discussion with Freddie Hiebert)
- Effects of Fluency Oriented Instruction on Motivation for Reading of Struggling Readers by Gene Mehigan
- Jennifer's website
- Jennifer's podcast
- Jennifer on Twitter/X:
- Join us at Educate and Rejuvenate July 2024
- Get a free Green Chef box using our link.
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