167: Sally Bergquist is an experienced teacher who has written an explicit, structured writing program for K-2. Listen to learn her tips for getting kids started in kindergarten, gradually building their writing skills throughout the primary grades, and finding the right balance between explicit instruction and practice with feedback.

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Nate Hansford, author of The Scientific Principles of Teaching, equips teachers to discern whether or not a study is high-quality, and whether or not to apply its results to their teaching. We follow that by discussing particular pedagogies that research does not support. I highly recommend his book, which takes the mystery out of education research for busy teachers.

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165: Dr. Devin Kearns explains why popular syllable division methods may not be the most efficient way to teach students to read longer words - and what to consider instead.

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164: Dr. Lorraine Hammond describes a whole-school approach to teaching vocabulary and explains how teachers can teach writing at the same time. What a powerful and efficient way to build vocabulary and writing skills!

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163: When our students struggle with comprehension, it may be that we need to go all the way back to the sentence level. In this episode, Nancy Hennessy discusses many different ways that teachers can help improve students' sentence comprehension. You may want to take notes!

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162: When you understand the stages of early writing, you're better able to support beginning writers. In this episode, Dr. Sonia Cabell reviews a framework for teachers to evaluate, support, and extend the writing that young children produce. This is a must-listen for preschool and kindergarten teachers!

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161: Deedee Wills was once a kindergarten teacher who trained other teachers to implement guided reading. In today's episode she shares information from her recent Plain Talk presentation, explaining why we need to move away from guided reading and how to give intentional, effective small group instruction to beginning readers.

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In this replay of a popular episode, we discuss exactly what's happening when children learn to recognize words - teaching tips included!

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