Route2Reading

Amie Burkholder
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Route2Reading

A step-by-step roadmap guides you through a reader's journey—at every level. This podcast was made for you if you're ready to, get clear on what structured literacy is and the science behind it. Join me to learn precisely what your struggling readers need and find ways to reach them.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    The Importance of Decodable Text with Elise Lovejoy

    LE Podcast #52  The Importance of Decodable Text with Elise Lovejoy   All About Elise Lovejoy: Former teacher and currently serves as an probono interventionist at a nearby school. Runs Express Readers, a foundational skills reading program as well as a decodable book series. Passionate about the science of reading. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    30 min

  2. JAN 6

    Podcast #51: New Year, New Goals: Using Data to Reset and Plan for 2025

    LE Podcast #51  New Year, New Goals: Using Data to Reset and Plan for 2025   What’s the most important question we can ask ourselves as teachers and reading specialists and coaches?  That’s easy: How do we teach reading in a way so that we can reach every student and every need?  The answer may not be what you think!  It all starts with assessments.  Analyzing data we get from assessments can completely transform our reading instruction and help us reach every student.  Today, we’re doing a deep dive into assessments and why we need them to drive our reading instruction. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    34 min

  3. 12/08/2024

    LE Podcast #50: Moving Students From Letter Sounds to CVC Words: The Secret Sauce

    I want to share with you essential building blocks that can help your students move from letters to reading CVC words.  Before we begin, let’s start with some vocabulary we’ll use during these show notes today. Phonemic awareness - the ability to blend, segment, and manipulate phonemes.  This is oral and doesn’t involve letters or print. Phonemes - our smallest units of sound. Alphabetic principle - taking the sounds and connecting it to written letters.   The Checklist That Students Need Before Reading CVC Words These foundational skills must be in place if we want to support our students efficiently. Letter name knowledge - They have to be able to look at the letter and know the name and sound of that letter. Automaticity - Simply knowing their sounds isn’t enough.  Students must be able to say their letter sounds automatically, which is what will help them blend and decode words. Phonemic awareness - blending and segmenting is critical for our students. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    30 min

  4. 11/18/2024

    Interview with Anna Geiger

    All About Anna Geiger: Author of Reach All Readers: Using the Science of Reading to Transform Your Literacy Instruction. Former teacher in 1st-4th grades. Currently serves educators through her website, www.themeasuredmom.com. Shares tons of hands-on lessons, thoughtful articles, and printable resources and has been doing so since 2013. Hosts a weekly podcast called Triple R Teaching and presents at various summits and conferences.   FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    36 min

  5. 11/07/2024

    Yearlong Phonics Pacing Guide

    Podcast #48 - Yearlong Phonics Pacing Guide Show Notes You guys - it’s here!  My Yearlong Phonics Pacing Guide for Grades K-2 is designed to help you plan and implement effective phonics instruction throughout the school year. Here,  we’ll share tips on how to make the most of this invaluable resource in your classroom. Plan Ahead: Take Control of Your Phonics Instruction Ensure a smooth and successful school year by planning ahead. Benefits of planning ahead: You have organization and clear goals and timelines to keep you on track. You have consistency to ensure a logical progression of skills. You have flexibility because you’re able to see ahead and adjust the framework as needed. Start by mapping out your phonics instruction for the entire year. Use the pacing guide to outline your weekly goals and objectives. Doing so will help you stay organized and, best of all, reduce stress throughout the entire year. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    22 min

  6. 10/14/2024

    Interview with Neena Saha

    All About Neena Saha: Neena earned her master’s degree in educational neuroscience from Columbia and has a PhD in special education from Vanderbilt. Her doctoral work on decoding resulted in a patent and her research can be found in journals like The Journal for Learning Disabilities and The Reading and Writing Interdisciplinary Journal. Upon graduating, Neena founded Elemeno, which helps bridge the research practice gap in early literacy. Meta Metrics acquired Elemeno and Neena joined their team to help build out early literacy products, tools, and services. Neena also continued the Reading Research Recap, which is a newsletter aimed at translating recent research into useful information for teachers. Currently, she’s exploring better ways of translating research for all. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    33 min

  7. 09/30/2024

    Structuring Literacy Blocks

    Scheduling literacy blocks and finding enough time in a day is an ever-present challenge in our classrooms.  How do we do it, and where do we start?  Today, we’ll go over some of the challenges we face, what to do about them, and how we can get in the time we need to teach literacy.   The Challenges of Literacy Blocks Not enough time Teachers are interrupted many times a day with student needs, broken copiers, announcements, and so on. There’s sometimes simply not enough time in our day to implement literacy blocks in the way we’d like. Overload of materials You may have a phonics program, fluency program, a comprehension program, etc.  All of these materials are simply too overwhelming.  And when we get overwhelmed and don’t know where to start, what actually happens is that we don’t end up starting at all.  Over-adopting curriculum With the rise of the science of reading (yay!), many districts have adopted new curriculums.  Although the intention is good, this leads to an overwhelming amount of resources. When we over-adopt curriculum, start valuing quantity over quality. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    27 min

  8. 09/16/2024

    Interview with Meghan Hein

    All About Meghan Hein: Proudly been in education for 20 years with jobs as a 2nd grade teacher as well as a math coach. Eventually transitioned into a literacy intervention teacher and served there for 5 years. She’s now back in the classroom using the skills and knowledge she learned as a literacy interventionist. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

    26 min
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A step-by-step roadmap guides you through a reader's journey—at every level. This podcast was made for you if you're ready to, get clear on what structured literacy is and the science behind it. Join me to learn precisely what your struggling readers need and find ways to reach them.

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  • Creator
    Amie Burkholder
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2022
  • Show Website
    Route2Reading

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