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Commuter Series: Teaching Rereading as a Comprehension Skill Aug 28, 2023

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When students, or any of us, find ourselves trying to make sense of a difficult text, it's easy to feel frustrated or even hopeless. In today's podcast, we'll hear about a simple strategy for supporting students when they encounter a text that is difficult for them, rereading. In this excerpt from the second edition of When Kids Can't Read - What Teachers Can Do, teacher, author, consultant, and former NCTE President Kylene Beers walks us through how to guide students how to reread productively. This selection from the audiobook is narrated by Meredith Beers, Kylene's daughter.

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Commuter Series: Teaching Inferring Aug 21, 2023

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Helping students to understand what they read is one of the most central academic aims of school. No matter what subject you’re teaching, students’ reading comprehension likely plays a big role in their success in your classroom.

Back in 1992, Dr. P. David Pearson and others identified six strategies that proficient readers consistently use as they read: using schema, inferring, questioning, determining importance, visualizing, and synthesizing. Explicitly teaching these strategies can improve students’ comprehension. The question is, how can these strategies be taught in a way that students can easily connect with?

Today, we’ll hear from teacher and education consultant Tanny McGregor. In this excerpt from her book Comprehension Connections, Tanny focuses on one of the slipperiest strategies: inferring.

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Commuter Series: Centering Multilingual Learners in the Classroom Aug 14, 2023

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The number of bilingual students in the United States is growing, and most of those students speak Spanish at home. What can teachers do to help these students feel not merely included but centered in classrooms?

Doctors Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera have named six essential practices for centering the voices and experiences of Latinx students. During today’s commute, we'll get to hear about two of these practices—getting to know students' journeys and understanding our students' literacy traditions—in an excerpt from their book, En Comunidad. You'll hear Carla and Luz share stories from their own lives that help illuminate the importance of these practices, as well as a few questions to connect them to your own classroom.

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Announcing a New Commuter Series from the Heinemann Podcast Aug 07, 2023

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Commuting is always better when you have a friend along. Let us join you on your commute with curated segments from Heinemann's audiobook library.

From guidance on creating a classroom where all students feel valued, to lessons on specific reading strategies, these short, focused podcasts will give you something to ponder during your commute or try out in your classroom after listening.

Join us on the podcast during your commute. Our first episode will be available on August 14th, with new episodes releasing every Monday morning. All you need to do is subscribe to the Heinemann podcast wherever you stream your podcasts.

Take us along for the ride as you start the new school year!

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A Look Inside a Collaborative Math Classroom Jun 15, 2023

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What are some words that you would use to describe your math classroom?

Today we’re joined by Jen Munson, Faith Kwon, and Mary Trinkle. If your classroom looks anything like theirs, you might say things like collective, trusting, and vulnerable. Sound surprising?

Their new book, The Collaborative Math Classroom, guides readers through implementing easy and approachable suggestions to launch a truly student-centered environment, where students learn not just mathematical ideas, but also how to do mathematics together. They pose and make sense of problems and experience themselves and one another as mathematical thinkers.