What’s Inside: In this episode, we chat with Dr. Carol Moxam at Newcastle University in England about her recent research article entitled, “The Link between Language and Spelling: What SLPs and Teachers Need to Know”. In the study, Dr. Moxam discusses the key aspects related to delivering explicit spelling instruction and provides teachers with clear guidance about what they need to know to deliver effective spelling instruction. Dr. Carol Moxam, Speech and Language Therapist and Director of the Children's Speech and Language Therapy Clinic at Newcastle University. Dr. Moxam works with schoo ..read more

What’s Inside: In this episode, we chat with author and educational consultant, Dr. Nancy Hennessey about her new book, The Reading Comprehension Blueprint (Brookes 2021). Dr. Hennessey authored this book to raise teacher awareness of the complexities of teaching comprehension as a skill. Her book, The Comprehension Blueprint, is aligned to the Science of Reading (SOR) and IDA standards and provides teachers tangible resources and strategies as well as a clear plan for comprehension instruction. Dr. Hennessey has worked in the field of literacy for over 30 years and is an experienced teacher ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What’s Inside: In this podcast, we chat with Dr. Jade Wexler, Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Maryland, College Park about her research on improving co-teaching outcomes through professional development in comprehension instruction strategies delivered during content-area instruction. We delve specifically into her article, Improving Instruction in Co-Taught Classrooms to Support Reading Comprehension. Dr. Wexler has published more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, is the co-author of three boo ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What’s Inside: In this episode, we chat with Dr. Adrea Truckenmiller, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, about her research on screening middle school students in written expression. Dr. Truckenmiller explores how practice and feedback are critical factors in building student’s writing skills and how writing assessment in writing should be added as part of a universal screening protocol to prevent writing difficulties before they arise. Dr. Truckenmiller teaches masters and doctoral courses in Special Education ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. Listen in as we talk to Dr. Young-Suk Grace Kim, Ed.D., professor and senior associate dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine about the importance of listening comprehension in developing skilled readers. In this podcast, we talk about her recent journal article, The Relations of Online Reading Processes (Eye Movements) with Working Memory, Emergent Literacy Skills, and Reading Proficiency. Dr. Kim received her doctorate in education from Harvard University. Dr. Kim received the Presidential Ea ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What’s inside: In this episode, we chat with Donna Hejtmanek, the founder of the Science of Reading Facebook Group, and one of the group's moderators, Pam Kastner, about how the group formed and how it supports its members. The Facebook group not only offers a community for teachers interested in learning more about the Science of Reading, but also offers training, resources, and mentorship. Learn more about our guests and other items mentioned in the podcast:  Science of Reading: What I Should Have Learned in College F ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What’s inside: In this episode, we chat with Dr. Tim Odegard about his research on universal screening data from three states with dyslexia screening laws. Dr. Odegard is a professor of psychology and holds the Katherine Davis Murfree Chair of Excellence in Dyslexic Studies at Middle Tennessee State University, leading the efforts of the Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia. Before joining the faculty at MTSU, he was the director of research for Wilson Language Training and has been faculty at the Universit ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What’s inside: In this episode, Katharine Pace Miles, Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.  Her research focuses on many different areas of literacy instruction including orthographic facilitation, sight word learning, assessment, and developmentally appropriate, highly engaging, explicit literacy instruction for emerging readers. Dr. Miles also works closely with New York City’s Department of Education and Literacy Trust, an organization that supports literacy ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What’s inside: In this episode, we spoke with Dr. James Booth and Marisa Lytle about their work at Vanderbilt’s Brain Development Lab (https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/boothlab/) and the project they are working on to make their large scale brain imaging data sets available through Open Neuro. Learn more about our guests and other items mentioned. in the podcast: Open Neuro Website: https://openneuro.org/ Follow Dr. James Booth on Twitter @DrJamesBooth Follow Marisa Lytle on Twitter @lytle_marisa ..read more

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What’s inside: In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Maryanne Wolf, Director of UCLA’s Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice on her mission to raise awareness that literacy is a basic human right. Learn more about our guest and other items mentioned. in the podcast: To learn more about Dr. Maryanne Wolf, visit her website at www.maryannewolf.com Haskins Lab Resource Bank for Literacy Instruction Cox Campus Town Hall Events in Collaboration with the Rollins Center for Language and Literacy ..read more