Bite-Sized Big Topics

Rebecca Clarke
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A podcast for pre-service teachers written by pre-service teachers! Bringing theoretical and practical early career teacher knowledge into bite-sized, easy-to-digest classroom chunks, join your host, a 4th-year pre-service teacher, and guests, to find out more about educational topics. Can you be a beginner teacher and be ready for classroom success? The answer is yes!

Episodes

  1. Learners With Reading Difficulties.

    MAR 14

    Learners With Reading Difficulties.

    Ep. 1: Learners with Reading Difficulties. Rebecca is a 4th-year pre-service teacher. In this episode, she discusses learners with reading difficulties and examines their characteristics. She talks to early-career teachers to discover how they use evidence-based strategies to collect data, and how this underpins classroom strategies for student support. In this episode, you will learn: · Legislation that requires teachers to support children with reading difficulties. · Reading frameworks, including the Reading Rope (Scarborough, 2001), the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986), and the Cognitive Foundations Framework (Tunmer & Hoover, 2019). · Characteristics of students with reading difficulties, including dyslexia. · Evidence-based approaches to collect data for creating a student profile. · Using data to inform systems of support. · Holistic supports for learners with reading difficulties. Supplementary Materials This link (https://bitesizedbigtopics.my.canva.site) contains information relating to the following topics: · Scarborough’s (2001) Reading Rope: An illustration of the components or strands of reading that interweave to create a skilled reader (00:52). · The Simple View of Reading (SVR) framework (Gough & Tunmer, 1986): A visual representation to support educators in understanding reading difficulties (01:20). · The Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) (de Bruin et al., 2024): A visual representation to support educators in understanding the MTSS (04:36). · The Cognitive Foundations Framework (CFF) (Tunmer & Hoover, 2019): An image of the CFF, which aims to support educators in understanding the cognitive capacities required for reading, allowing for effective teaching and assessment (05:10).

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A podcast for pre-service teachers written by pre-service teachers! Bringing theoretical and practical early career teacher knowledge into bite-sized, easy-to-digest classroom chunks, join your host, a 4th-year pre-service teacher, and guests, to find out more about educational topics. Can you be a beginner teacher and be ready for classroom success? The answer is yes!

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