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    Melissa & Lori Love Literacy ® | Science of Reading for Teachers

    Melissa & Lori Love Literacy® is a science of reading podcast for teachers who want to understand how reading really works and what that means for classroom instruction.

    Each month, Melissa & Lori explore topics in reading instruction by talking with researchers, authors, and classroom teachers who are bringing reading research into their classrooms.

    Melissa & Lori are like the teachers next door, now behind the mic. They learn alongside listeners and ask the same questions educators everywhere are asking: What does the research say about reading? What does strong literacy instruction actually look like in real classrooms? Through these conversations, the podcast helps bridge the gap between reading research and day-to-day teaching.

    Episodes explore topics including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, spelling, reading intervention, and other key areas of structured literacy instruction.

    Melissa & Lori help teachers think through what reading research can look like in their own classrooms.

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    Latest Episodes:
    Ep. 151: Science of Reading for ALL Students: Language Variation and Reading with Julie Washington Jun 23, 2023
    Show notes

    In today’s episode, Julie Washington discusses how literacy learning can be supported by language variations. Reading and language are intertwined. Reading influences language and language influences reading. It’s a reciprocal process! How can we, as educators and practitioners, leverage students’ strengths in language variations to learn to read?
    What if we told you that understanding language variations could significantly impact the way we approach literacy and education for African American children? Join us in this insightful conversation with Julie Washington, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who specializes in the intersection of language and literacy. Discover how her research on language variations as a strength, rather than a weakness, can reshape our perspectives on cultural dialects, early literacy skills, and language development.
    Julie brings her expertise to light by highlighting the importance of African American English in the classroom and the challenges it faces, both from the broader society and within the African American community. We explore the practical consequences of treating this dialect as low-prestige and discuss the need for students to be able to use both systems of language.
    We dive into resources for educators to better understand these variations and emphasize the importance of differentiated instruction and high expectations for all students. Tune in and equip yourself with the knowledge to make a difference in the lives of your students, no matter their language background.

    Resources

    • Teaching Reading to African American Children by Julie Washington and Mark Seidenberg
    • Struggling Readers Who Speak African-American English Need Support - And Respect by Natalie Wexler
    • Minority Student Achievement Network
    • The Opportunity Myth by TNTP
    • The Academic English Mastery Program by LAUSD

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    Helping teachers learn about science of reading, knowledge building, and high quality curriculum.

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    Ep. 150: Science of Reading for ALL Students: Intervention for Secondary Students Jun 16, 2023
    Show notes

    Secondary educators have students in their classrooms who weren’t taught to read. Because of these reading deficits, students likely have a difficult time accessing secondary texts and tasks. Our guests today, Supt. Sherry Sousa and Educator Julie Brown, discuss a secondary intervention they developed that WORKS and is totally doable. The best part? Students partake in the intervention in addition to - not instead of - their regular high school English classes.


    Resources

    • No Time to Waste: Structured Literacy for Young Adults
    • Ameer Baraka video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyFiOYCqvyk


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    Helping teachers learn about science of reading, knowledge building, and high quality curriculum.

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    [Listen Again] Ep. 26: Tim Shanahan Shares about Strategies & Knowledge Building Jun 09, 2023
    Show notes

    We talked with the fabulously candid Tim Shanahan about his recent blog post Prior Knowledge, or He Isn't Going to Pick on the Baseball Study that garnered much attention. Should we teach reading strategies? How important is building knowledge? What are reading skills vs. strategies? How frequent should strategy instruction occur in concert with knowledge building? He also weighs in on the current crisis to share his thoughts on how families and educators can best serve students at home.

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    Ep. 149: Hot Topic Series: Clarifying Differences Between Reading Skills and Reading Strategies Jun 02, 2023
    Show notes

    Our conversation today illuminates a hot topic in reading - skills and strategies. What’s the difference? Peter Afflerbach, researcher and professor, shares in the podcast that he and his colleagues surveyed educators and “ten people would give us ten different answers. They were all kind of related, but all different.”

    Peter explains that with practice, strategies require less deliberate attention. When strategies become effortless and automatic, the reading strategy has become a reading skill. This is bound to change based on complexity of text and topic, so we learn that knowledge plays a critical role in strategy use and comprehension, too.

    Resources

    • Clarifying Differences Between Reading Skills and Reading Strategies, The Reading Teacher
    • Teaching Readers (Not Reading): Moving Beyond Skills and Strategies to Reader-Focused Instruction by Peter Afflerbach
    • Shedding Light on Reading Skills and Strategies | Shanahan on Literacy
    • Comprehension Skills or Strategies | What’s the difference and does it matter?

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    Helping teachers learn about science of reading, knowledge building, and high quality curriculum.

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    [Listen Again] Episode 30: Wild about Wexler: Take 2! May 26, 2023
    Show notes

    We had the opportunity to talk (again!) with Natalie Wexler about tips for effective remote learning (read her full article located here), the current intersection of students' virtual learning and strategy-focused instruction (due to lack of knowledge-based, high quality curricula) and how parents are noticing! How can we teach strategies in context while building knowledge? Listen to find out!
    More recently, Wexler wrote a piece titled How Reading Instruction Oppresses Black and Brown Children, located here. She ends with this quote: "If people truly understood the needless damage being done by our schools every day, they would be out in the streets demanding change." Natalie, we hear you, and WE ARE! We are shouting from the rooftops... or more accurately, shouting from the podcast apps! :)
    American Educator magazine released an excerpt of The Knowledge Gap - find it here!

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    Ep. 148: Hot Topic Series: Should You Teach Phonemic Awareness ‘In the Dark’ or with Print? May 19, 2023
    Show notes

    What is Phonemic Awareness? It’s one component of your literacy instruction. Phonemic awareness means understanding that spoken words are made of individual sounds called phonemes. We want students to be able to isolate, blend, segment, and more. Can it be ‘done in the dark’? Or should we teach phonemic awareness with print? Listen and learn as we explore this important question (and more) in today’s episode.

    Resources

    • They Say You Can Do Phonemic Awareness Instruction “In the Dark”, But Should You? A Critical Evaluation of the Trend Toward Advanced Phonemic Awareness Training
    • Ep. 142: Structured Literacy in Small Group Time
    • Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Wiley Blevins
    • Phonemic Awareness vs. Phonics Heggerty
    • What are Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness? Heggerty
    • Free Sample Lessons Heggerty

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    Helping teachers learn about science of reading, knowledge building, and high quality curriculum.

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    [Listen Again] Ep. 113: Reading is Rocket Science with Louisa Moats May 12, 2023
    Show notes

    Why is teaching reading so important? Melissa and Lori have a conversation with Louisa Moats grounded in this article: Teaching Reading is Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do. Moats asserts that 95% of students can learn to read when taught to do so using evidence-based practices. In this episode, listen as we discuss and define the term science of reading, while connecting decades of research and theory to classroom practice.


    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    Ep. 147: Hot Topic Series: What is Speech to Print? May 05, 2023
    Show notes

    In this episode, we’ll discuss an approach to teaching foundational skills known as speech to print. The speech to print approach consists of 4 concepts with consistent logic:

    1. Letters spell sounds (alphabetic principle)
    2. Sounds can be represented by one or more letters
    3. Sounds can be spelled different ways
    4. Spellings can be pronounced in different ways

    What is the difference between speech to print and a traditional print to speech approach? What does the speech to print approach look like in practice? What does the research say about this approach?

    Resources

    • Triple R Teaching Podcast related episodes:
      • Print to speech vs Speech to print: What’s the difference?
      • How to add speech to print elements to your phonics instruction
    • Reading Simplified
    • PhonicBooks
    • Evidence Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI)
    • Phonics: Speech to Print vs Print to Speech Webinar
    • The Seidenberg and McClelland (1989) model of visual word recognition
    • International Dyslexia Association Fact Sheet on Phoneme Awareness
    • The Latest Research (And Debate) on Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Instruction by Susan Brady
    • Speech to Print or Print to Speech: What's the difference? blog, by Tami Reis-Frankfort, Phonic Books
    • Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do About It, book, Diane McGuinness
    • Stanislas Dehaene: Book, How the Brain Learns to Read and YouTube Video, How the Brain Learns to Read, and Twitter Handle

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    • Facebook and join our Facebook Group&nbs

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    [Listen Again] Ep. 116: Sonia Cabell on the Importance of Content-Rich ELA Instruction Apr 28, 2023
    Show notes

    Dr. Sonia Cabell, Associate Professor at Florida State University, shares the importance of both oral language and content knowledge instruction. Why? Oral language skills underlie our ability to comprehend text. At the same time, the knowledge we bring to a text is THE key determinant on how much we understand that text. This episode speaks to the entirety of the reading rope!

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


    Ep. 146: Reading Comprehension is Not a Skill with Robert Pondiscio Apr 21, 2023
    Show notes

    Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), asserts that reading comprehension is NOT a skill. Yes, good readers use reading skills and strategies to make meaning. But good readers also have a robust knowledge base. There is strong evidence to support knowledge building ELA curriculum, but we continue to wonder about what knowledge, whose knowledge, and how much?

    Resources

    • Recht & Leslie Baseball Study
    • Wanted: A Science of Reading Comprehension movement | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
    • Reading comprehension is not a “skill” | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
    • Why doesn’t increasing knowledge improve reading achievement? Tim Shanahan
    • Ep. 124 Innovative Assessment with the Louisiana Assessment Team Melissa and Lori Love Literacy podcast
    • Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch
    • What Reading Does for the Mind Cunningham and Stanovich


    Connect with us

    • Facebook and join our Facebook Group
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    Visit our website to stay connected with Melissa and Lori!

    Helping teachers learn about science of reading, knowledge building, and high quality curriculum.

    Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

    Interested in bringing Melissa & Lori Love Literacy to your school or event? Email us at literacypodcast@greatminds.org.


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