In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children’s Books, Melissa Stewart and Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers.  In today’s episode, Terry Thompson talks with Melissa and Marlene about changes in expository nonfiction over the years, the recognition of the Info-Kid, and how teachers and librarians can use the categorization system in their book to better support students L I N K S 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children’s Books Melissa's Twitter Marlene's Twitter Melissa's Site Info-Kids, now out of print but used copies available  

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Melissa Stewart and Marlene Correia

Kassia Omohundro Wedekind, and Christy Hermann Thompson, have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas.  Their research led to the development of Hands Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which all students’ ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening and facilitating.   That structure is detailed in their new book, Hands Down Speak Out: Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math, K-5.  In today’s episode, Kassia and Christy share their thinking behind their book and the importance of investing time developing dialogue skills to deepen understanding of literacy and mathematics, and also of ourselves and our world. There’s loads of thoughtful and engaging talk here today, starting with Kassia sharing how she and Christy became friends.  ----------------------------------------------------------------Links: Hands Down, Speak Out:  https://www.stenhouse.com/content/hands-down-speak-out You can find Kassia and Christy online at https://handsdownspeakout.wordpress.com Twitter: @kassiaowedekind & @TeacherThomp [Original airdate July 2020]  

Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math

Originally broadcast in 2020. Paula Bourque, Matthew Kay, and Terry Thompson discuss the myth of the perfect teacher, what we get wrong—and right—about teacher appreciation, and how we can show appreciation year round. Links: Paula Bourque: Spark!:  https://www.stenhouse.com/1200.asp https://www.paulabourque.com @LitCoachLady Matthew Kay: Not Light, But Fire: https://www.stenhouse.com/1098.asp https://www.notlight.com @MattRKay Terry Thompson: The Construction Zone: https://www.stenhouse.com/0869.asp @TerryTreads

What Does Teacher Appreciation Look Like?

Rebroadcast: Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser, creators of the Teachers Toolkit for Independent Reading share their experiences and questions about helping kids access books and teachers, and what’s important as they look to the fall.  LINKS! The Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading: https://www.stenhouse.com/1400.asp https://www.gravityandrenee.com https://www.drgravitygoldberg.com https://www.readwritethinkwithrenee.com   @DrGravityG @ReneeDHouser   

Equity, Access, Book Choice, and Student Connection

In the upcoming Text Sets in Action: Pathways through Content Area Literacy, Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes demonstrate how text sets can prompt serious thinking more effectively than any single text.  Teachers who adopt this approach find that the texts’ various lenses enable students not only to meet curriculum standards but also to experience engagement and encourage inquiry across the disciplines. In this podcast, Mary Ann and Erika share their background and the origin and definition of a text set, what educators will learn from their new book, and are joined by Lorraine Leddy, a classroom teacher from New York,  for an in-depth discussion about her experience collaborating with them to introduce text sets in her third grade classroom and the benefits of a text sets approach in curriculum design.  LINKS Pre-order Text Sets in Action: Pathways through Content Area Literacy  Keep up with Mary Ann and Erika  www.teachingwithtradebooks.com www.theclassroombookshelf.com https://www.thebiographyclearinghouse.org/ Mary Ann's Twitter Erika's Twitter Lorraine's Twitter

Text Sets in Action: Stories from the Classroom

What can we teach kids today that will have utility ten or fifteen years from now? Angela Kohnen and Wendy Saul propose an approach to information literacy that goes beyond the teaching of discrete, easily outdated skills. Instead, they use activity to help students build identities as curious individuals empowered to ask their own questions and able to navigate their information-filled world in pursuit of credible answers. Thinking Like a Generalist  

Building Skills to Navigate a Complex World

Graham Fletcher and Tracy Zager share a sneak peek of upcoming Building Fact Fluency Toolkit for Mulitplication and Division and discuss the purpose and challenge of creating intriguing and accessible contexts for students.  LINKS Want to be the first to know about Graham's new Toolkit? Building Fact Fluency; A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction Building Fact Fluency Community Facebook Group Graham Fletcher: @gfletchy Graham's Website Tracy Zager: @tracyzager Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had

Sneak Peek at Building Fact Fluency for Multiplication and Division

Cris Tovani teams up with her instructional coach/editor/friend Samantha Bennett for an engaging, often funny, always insightful discussion of their long relationship and the stories behind her new book, Why Do I Have to Read This?  Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students.  Don't miss it! Do I Really Have to Read This? Cris's Twitter Sam's Twitter Free webinar with Cris

Behind the Scenes of Why Do I Have to Read This?

When we set about creating today’s episode, we knew we wanted to explore the idea of gratitude with several authors.  What we could not have anticipated is how thoughtful and gracious they were.  In our first segment, we speak with Lisa Lucas about what we experience physiologically when we express gratitude and how we can incorporate gratitude into our classroom and daily lives.    Next, Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser discuss how gratitude is embedded in their teaching and its role within a growth mindset.   In our last two segments, Jeff Anderson and Whitney La Rocca, each share how the changes forced by the pandemic provided unexpected gifts. LINKS Lisa Lucas: Twitter Practicing Presence Gravity Goldberg Twitter Renee Houser Twitter Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading Jeff Anderson Twitter Whitney La Rocca Twitter Patterns of Power

Expressing Gratitude in 2020: 5 Perspectives

If reading and writing go hand in hand, wouldn’t it make sense to merge your reading and writing workshops occasionally? What would that even look like? And how would students respond? In this episode, authors Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker (The Literacy Workshop: Where Reading and Writing Converge) describe literacy workshop, how it looks in primary and intermediate classrooms, and how the streamlined nature of literacy workshop lends itself well to online and hybrid teaching.      L I N K S The Literacy Workshop: Where Reading and Writing Converge Study Guide Remote Learning Guide Maria's Twitter Karen's Twitter Maria's Website Karen's Website

Streamline Your Instruction with The Literacy Workshop

Toni Cameron and Deanna McLennan in conversation with Stenhouse’s Kassia Omohundro Wedekind about creating a supportive, curious, and playful environment for mathematics in early childhood classrooms, the importance of stepping back to listen, and (of course!) what this all looks like these days.  LINKS Early Childhood Math Routines Joyful Math Toni's Twitter and Website Deanna's Twitter

Building a Curious and Playful Early Childhood Math Community

In Building Fact Fluency: A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction, Graham Fletcher helps students learn their math facts by developing conceptual understanding and procedural fluency at the same time. This comprehensive, research-based toolkit provides everything a teacher needs to help students develop number sense on the way to fluency—from cards, games, and videos to online resources, a facilitator’s guide, and hundreds of highly-engaging activities and tasks.  This episode of Teacher’s Corner revisits Graham's and editor Tracy Johnston Zager's discussion in 2019 while the Toolkit was in development.  LINKS: Building Fact Fluency: A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction Graham's Website Graham's Twitter

Graham Fletcher: Building Fact Fluency

According to the NAEP, two thirds of American school children read below grade level proficiency.  Some cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists argue that this is because of the gap between what we know about the science of reading and how reading is taught in the classroom.  In their recent book, Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching, Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellete explain the latest research and theory on lexical representation and its relation to rapid and accurate word reading, a necessary skill to mastering literacy. In this episode, Dr. Gentry briefly explains brain words and how parents can understand their connection to their children’s reading development.  Links: Brain Words J. Richard Gentry Twitter His blog at Psychology Today Kindergarten Ready, hosted by Dr. Gene Ouellette

J. Richard Gentry: Brain Words

As we begin a new school year, Amanda Jansen and Chris Luzniak  share their experiences teaching during the pandemic, how communication with students and colleagues has changed, and the challenges and opportunities presented in moving math discussion from the classroom to Zoom sessions.    L I N K S : Mandy @MandyMathEd Rough Draft Math: Revising to Learn     Chris   @CLuzniak https://clopendebate.wordpress.com https://www.luzniak.com Up for Debate: Exploring Math Through Argument   Flipgrid Kahoot  

Math Instruction in the Age of COVID-19

Kassia Omohundro Wedekind, and Christy Hermann Thompson, have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas.  Their research led to the development of Hands Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which all students’ ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening and facilitating.   That structure is detailed in their new book, Hands Down Speak Out: Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math, K-5.  In today’s episode, Kassia and Christy share their thinking behind their book and the importance of investing time developing dialogue skills to deepen understanding of literacy and mathematics, and also of ourselves and our world. There’s loads of thoughtful and engaging talk here today, starting with Kassia sharing how she and Christy became friends.  ----------------------------------------------------------------Links: Hands Down, Speak Out:  https://www.stenhouse.com/content/hands-down-speak-out You can find Kassia and Christy online at https://handsdownspeakout.wordpress.com Twitter: @kassiaowedekind & @TeacherThomp Transcript available at our blog: https://blog.stenhouse.com/podcast-listening-and-talking-across-literacy-and-math   

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