My Literacy Space Podcast Hanna Stroud

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
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Check out the LIVE with Hanna and Michelle all about working with wiggly littles.
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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
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Literacy is Liberation by Kimberly N. Parker
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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
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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
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