My Literacy Space Podcast

Michelle Breitenbach is an energetic and motivating presenter who will get you on your feet. She is a certified dyslexia practitioner and early literacy specialist from Boston, Massachusetts.  After working as a special educator for seven years, she established her own company in Miami, Florida, Read to Rewire. She supports students online as a private educator and coaches teachers globally. Michelle is passionate about teaching others how to engage students through less technology, movement, and games in the classroom and online, precisely those extra wiggly, inflexible thinkers. Michelle was teaching online for over a year when the pandemic occurred. She supported the transition to online teaching with free resources and webinars during the pandemic.    Michelle loves creating unique resources to support teachers and maintain student interest with games and bursts of movement. Her interactive webinars have focused on elevating student engagement, maintaining multi-sensory methods, minimizing tech online for successful lessons, setting up behavior systems, and weaving quick motivating activities into each part of a structured literacy lesson. In this episode, we'll chat give our top 3 tips for tutoring! Connect with Michelle: Michelle's Website: https://www.readtorewire.com;  Connect with Michelle on IG: http://www.Instagram.com/readtorewire  Connect with Michelle on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/readtorewire Additional Resources:  Freebie! Checklist to Get Ready to Teach Online: https://cheerful-speaker-5789.ck.page/b230f58cbe InSwan Document Camera Amazon Canada affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3do8nVX Amazon US affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3S85Jm4 Check out the LIVE with Hanna and Michelle all about working with wiggly littles. https://www.instagram.com/tv/Chu6YquprZ_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Shaime Cortes-Vega  started her career as an educator in 2009. In that time, she's worked as a special education middle school teacher, an upper grades elementary school teacher, and has now been a literacy coach for four years. She's also a professional development specialist for Education to the Core. She's passionate about all things reading science and ADHD and love to share information about these two topics.    -What is ADHD? -The process of obtaining an ADHD diagnosis -Typical obstacles that kids with ADHD deal with during a day -Common diagnoses that would go together with ADHD -How to support someone you love who has ADHD   Connect with Shaime Corets-Vega @drcorteswrites Freebie: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VJS4LTWRND6Q7Yp9krsaK3nXsWMQgnUg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107460830376551921290&rtpof=true&sd=true 

Jeannette Roberes is an author who has worked as a speech pathologist, software engineer and educator. She has spoken in over 40 countries and has earned recognition in The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report, among other professional acknowledgements. Jeannette's commitment to life-long learning is noted through her LETRS® early childhood facilitator certification, Fast ForWord® and PROJECT READ® curriculum certifications. Her debut book, Technical Difficulties: Why Dyslexic Narratives Matter in Tech, has received 5 star reviews across Goodreads and Amazon. Jeannette is the chief academic officer of Bearly Articulating. In this episode, we'll chat about: What do we mean when we say "literacy is a social justice issue"?   What are some of the contributing factors?   How does this impact learning?   Why do we need to pay more attention?   Important resources   The Young Activist's Dictionary of Social Justice Amazon Canada affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3cQQq27 Amazon US affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3AVYfLL   Literacy is Liberation by Kimberly N. Parker Amazon Canada affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3cUfWmZ Amazon US affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3D5PiSE   Think Dyslexia with Dr. Lauren Website:  https://www.thinkdyslexia.me/ Podcast:  https://www.myliteracyspace.com/blog/how-to-supportyour-dyslexic-child

Rachel Beiswanger serves as a K-12 reading specialist. She works directly with students as an interventionist and also leads literacy initiatives to implement evidence-based practices at her school. She holds a master of education in reading and has been an educator for 12 years. Rachel is passionate about helping educators bridge research to practice and believes that prevention is the key to ending the literacy crisis.  In this episode we chat about: -What a  universal screener is and what specific ways that that gives us an overall view -How to move from a universal to more of a diagnostic assessment -The possible red flags that come up possible red flags that come up in an assessment -How to support specific literacy skills   Resources mentioned in the episode: Reading comp comprehension blueprint by Nancy Hennessy Amazon Canada affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3TzmzMa Amazon US affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3KGSxSA Teachers top 10 tools by Dr. Deb Glaser: https://www.tools4reading.com/top-10-tools Universal Screener: https://acadiencelearning.org/acadience-reading/

Hallee Adelman is an educator, writer, producer, and filmmaker. With a PhD in education, Adelman has taught elementary through university students and has been nominated for Disney Teacher of the Year on multiple occasions. This past April, Adelman released three new picture books published by Albert Whitman & Company. Way Past Lonely and Way Past Afraid, are the two latest books in Hallee's Great Big Feelings series, joining 2020 titles Way Past Mad and Way Past Worried and 2021 titles Way Past Jealous and Way Past Sad. These Social Emotional Learning books help kids explore and manage their feelings, with accompanying lesson plans, activities, and videos available for free at WayPastBooks.com.  Hallee also released The Strongest Thing, a standalone picture book that reminds children of the strength found in love and kindness—and in themselves.   Whether she is sharing a story, supporting her local schools, or serving a non-profit, Adelman's greatest passion is lifting kids, families, and creators as they share their stories, inspire change, and spread laughter. She resides outside Philadelphia, PA with her husband, daughters, and dogs.   In this episode we'll chat about: -How the descriptive language used in the series helps children visualize the emotion making it easy to relate to -Diverse representation of families and character names -The importance of using picture books to build social and emotional language and skills -How families and educators can use these books to support children Connect with Hallee: https://waypastbooks.com/ https://www.halleeadelman.com/ https://myquietship.com/ Instagram @WayPastBooks and @HalleeAdelman Twitter @HalleeAdelman

Wendy Darasz and Jen Yagid are both Wilson certified and credentialed Dyslexia Practitioners. They have worked together for over 10 years. They are self-described Science of Reading geeks and are passionate about evidenced-based literacy instruction.    Wendy and Jen co-founded Informed Literacy in 2015 to help build a community of like-minded individuals and to spread the word about structured literacy practices. As reading specialists, they work with a diverse population of students, including regular and special education students and English language learners from kindergarten to grade 6.    Their mission at Informed Literacy is to support teachers and parents of emergent and struggling readers because …every child deserves reading success.      What is the best definition of fluency? What is automaticity and accuracy, prosody, speed, punctuation, expression Why is fluency important for readers? What are the most important components of fluency? How do we assess fluency?   Connect with Jen and Wendy: Website: https://informedliteracy.com/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/informedlit/    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InformedLit   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCDE4Ut9Y5ZgzNimn40l0rQ TPT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Informed-Literacy   Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Rasinski and Melissa Cheeseman Smith Amazon Canada affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3ypG5C1

Sarah Paul is a reading interventionist for kindergarten through third grade. Prior to that, she taught first grade. Sarah has a blog called Sarah's Teaching Snippets that she started in 2010.   Sarah started studying dyslexia about ten years ago, which began her journey with the Science of Reading. She has received OG training through the Dyslexia Training Institute and additional training through PDX Reading Specialist.   In this episode, we'll discuss: What is a morpheme? What is morphology? Why is morphology important? How does morphology support reading and spelling acquisition? When do we start to introduce morphology concepts into our instruction? Why is important not to wait until the later grades to introduce morphology? **Sign Up for the Science of Reading Summer Summit: https://www.myliteracyspace.com/science-of-reading-summer-summit

Rachel is a 1st grade teacher based in Atlanta, GA. After falling in love with early education through studying social emotional learning in her elementary education and special education undergraduate teaching program, Rachel found structured literacy through working at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Reading Clinic. She developed structured multi-sensory instruction for students with diverse learning needs and brought this experience to the gen ed classroom starting in 2020.  Rachel taught Kindergarten online all year during the 2020-2021 school year out of Brooklyn, NY and built her social media platform and teacher resources to support early career teachers in developing inclusive classroom communities online and in-person as well as implementing structured literacy research and practice in schools with balanced literacy programs. She discovered the equitable power of word study and aligned decodables as she worked with learners with a variety of language backgrounds and learning needs all through the computer. In this episode, we'll chat about  -What 'decodable' means -What decodable books and decodable texts are -The importance of decodable text -The reasons for using decodable text vs. authentic text -Who should be reading decodable text -The 3-cueing system and leveled text -When to move on from decodable text   **Sign Up for the Science of Reading Summer Summit here: https://www.myliteracyspace.com/science-of-reading-summer-summit **Download my Decodable Books & Resources Link here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/62c59e6776107945a8113180

Brittany Philipsen is entering her 18th year in public education, having spent eleven years as an elementary classroom teacher, and beginning year seven as an instructional coach.  Passionate about research-based literacy instruction, Brittany has completed LETRS training twice, Orton Gillingham training twice, holds a Structured Literacy certificate, and has a Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Reading Science.  It is Brittany's mission to support teachers in ensuring that all students have access to high quality explicit reading instruction. In this episode you'll hear us chat about: -The importance of explicit spelling instruction  -The skills kids need to have in order to be proficient spellers -Why kids experience difficulty with spelling and how to support their learning -Brittany's favourite spelling resources   Books Mentioned in the Episode: Uncovering the Logic of English - A Common-Sense Approach to Reading, Spelling and Literacy by Denise Eide Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3OAD07n Amazon US https://amzn.to/3HMrSSF   Spelling for Life - Uncovering the Simplicity and Science of Spelling by Lyn Stone Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3OBsEUV Amazon US https://amzn.to/3tYTled   The ABC's and All Their Tricks - The Complete Reference Book of Phonics and Spelling by Margaret M. Bishop Amazon Canada https://amzn.to/3Okz5fa Amazon US https://amzn.to/3zYYreg   Resources Mentioned in the Episode: https://education.ufl.edu › ufli https://www.readingrockets.org https://keystoliteracy.com/ https://www.grammarly.com/   Click the following link to access information about the Science of Reading Summer Summit: https://www.myliteracyspace.com/science-of-reading-summer-summit

Dr. Lauren McClenney-Rosenstein's passion for educating, advocating, and bringing awareness to dyslexia at the domestic and international levels began in the elementary classrooms of private schools serving students with language-based learning disabilities. She has been a certified Special Educator for a decade, and she earned her Doctor of Education in Teaching, Learning, Leadership, & Curriculum in 2019 from Northeastern University and holds a dual masters in Special Education and Elementary Education from Syracuse University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Syracuse University. Her dedication to providing the gold standard of instruction to individuals with dyslexia led her to obtain her endorsement at the Associate level through The Orton-Gillingham Academy in 2014. Eventually, she expanded her skill set in the public schools as a 7th and 8th grade math and English Language Arts (ELA) co-teacher before taking a position with a non-profit organization that advocates for inclusion in public schools for students with disabilities. Currently, Dr. Lauren is a middle school learning specialist and instructional coach at a private school while also the CEO of Think Dyslexia. In this episode we'll chat about: -What dyslexia is -Red flags parents should be looking for  -How parents can support their child with dyslexia  -How young children can be to get a diagnosis -Why it's important to not just "wait and see" -Resource books for parents to read Resources Mentioned in the Episode: -International Dyslexia Association: https://dyslexiaida.org/ -3 Surprising Ways to Support Your Child's Dyslexia: https://www.thinkdyslexia.me/landing-page -Dyslexia Yale Creativity Center: https://dyslexia.yale.edu/ -Mayo Clinics Signs and Symptoms of Dyslexia: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyslexia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353552 Books Mentioned in the Episode: Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz Brilliantly Dyslexic. And that's by Liz Trudeau Hacking the Code by Gea Meijering Climb by Hannah Peckham Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco If You're So Smart, Why Can't You Spell Mississippi? By Barbara Esham Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt Connect with Dr. Lauren Website: https://www.thinkdyslexia.me/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedrlauren/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/think_dyslexia LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-mcclenney-rosenstein-ed-d-6a06002a/