The Reading Teacher's Playbook with Eva Mireles

Eva Mireles, Upper Elementary Literacy Coach
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Welcome to the Reading Teacher's Playbook—your go to source for upper elementary literacy teachers (grades 3-5) and those who support them, seeking evidence-based literacy practices. Listen in as Eva simplifies literacy instruction, promotes sustainable growth, and empowers you to create engaging lessons that make learning stick. Your host, Eva Mireles, will provide you with practical tips and tools for confident teaching, while fostering a love for reading in your students. Let's huddle up and learn together! Visit her website to learn more: https://evamireles.com/

  1. APR 30

    Finish Strong-ish Cultivating Classroom Community at the End of the Year

    In this episode:             I talk about the what, why and how of maintaining the community that you’ve worked hard to cultivate all year long. We talk about: 1.What it means to cultivate community. 2. Why cultivating community during our post testing era matters. 3.How to cultivate community after the state testing in upper elementary. Quotables: -Cultivating community means to foster the growth and closeness of a group of students and/or staff members so that they feel a sense of belonging. -Teachers are an invaluable resource and support for their students as they navigate any anxiety they are feeling about upcoming changes as they change grade levels. - Revisiting this year's favorite classroom read-alouds is one way that you can cultivate community.   Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Sign up for the Finish Strong-ish Workshop Here! Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    13 min

  2. APR 23

    Finish Strong-ish How to Keep Literacy Learning Front and Center at the End of the Year

    In this episode:             I talk about the what, why and how of keeping literacy  learning front and center at the end of the school year.  We talk about: 1.What does it mean to keep learning front and center. 2. Why keeping learning front and center during our post testing era matters. 3.How to infuse your literacy block with purposeful learning after the state testing in upper elementary. Quotables: -Oftentimes the end of the school year will have us chunking the progress students have made right out the window a month early because we haven’t proactively thought about how to keep the learning the main thing at this point of the school year.  -If we abandon our literacy learning routines in the name of relaxing the rest of the school year then we miss our chance to lead by example when it comes to life long learning. - Taking time to plan will help you to incorporate review of literacy skills and fun.    Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Sign up for the Finish Strong-ish Workshop Here! Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    14 min

  3. APR 16

    Finish the Year Strong-ish Making a Plan for your M.S.O.- Motivation, Self-Care and Organization

    In this episode:             I talk about the what, why and how of leveraging the behind the scenes of being an upper elementary reading teacher to help you end the year strong-ish. We talk about: 1.What is the behind the scenes of teaching. 2. Why you should focus on controlling the controllables at the end of the school year.  3. What is your M.S.O. and how do you plan for it? Quotables: -Teaching requires a lot of teachers and most of what it requires is intellectual. This means that there is often not a lot of room leftover for unnecessary real estate in our brains and yet we give a lot of this space away rent free.   -It's important to give some thought to our M.S.O. (our motivation, self care and organization) It’s also important to put some intention behind these so that we have enough mental bandwidth to generate creative solutions to all of the other things that are running around rent free in our minds.  - I like to think of self care as an act of resistance, because education is a system that will try to take all of everything you give it.   Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Sign up for the Finish Strong-ish Workshop Here! Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Control the Controllable in Sports by: Sidd Sampla Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    18 min

  4. APR 9

    Finish Strong-ish Permission to edit your vision

    In this episode:             I talk about the what, why and how of casting a vision that will help you finish the year strong-ish We talk about: 1.What it means to cast a realistic vision for the end of the school year in your upper elementary literacy classroom.  2. Why casting a vision is a form of self care that your future self will thank you for.  3.How asking yourself 4 simple questions will help you cast a vision for ending the year strong-ish.  4. What the research has to say about how casting a vision can help fuel creativity and motivation. Quotables: -There is nothing wrong with enjoying some chill time with students, but we all know that if we take students way out of their routine they will take it as permission to live their best life at the expense of our patience and sanity.   -Taking time to cast a vision for  what we want the end of the school year to look like, sound like and feel like helps us decide for ourselves what will be most important in our classrooms before our admin comes in and decides this for us.  -I am going to help you hold the tension of and. You need to pack up your room and your students need to feel a sense of normalcy.   Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Sign up for the Finish Strong-ish Workshop Here! Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Why Imagining a Positive Future is Crucial for Progress? Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    22 min

  5. APR 2

    Compare and Contrast Mini-Series: The What, The Why and The How of Comparing and Contrasting

    In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the What, the Why and the How that finding similarities and differences across texts plays in their reading lives.  We talk about: Listen to the final episode in our compare and contrast mini series.  We are talking all about contrasting, what it is, why it matters and how it impacts your literacy classroom. We will also talk about how to help students compare and contrast across multiple texts. Quotables:  -When we contrast we are using a higher or thinking skill to discern the relationship between two or more things to decide how those things are unlike or dissimilar to each other.  -According to Marzano, students who are able to identify similarities and differences are then able to better understand and solve complex problems. - The research notes that using a graphic organizer is ideal so our tried and true venn diagrams are research backed as a way to help students compare, contrast and classify.   Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Finish-Strong ish 2025  Marzano's Nine Instructional Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning  Episode 104: Compare and Contrast Series: The What, The Why and The How of Comparing Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Grab my free guide for keeping your mini lesson mini  Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    19 min

  6. MAR 19

    Compare and Contrast Series: The What, The Why and The How of Comparing

    In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the What, the Why and the How of making comparisons in your upper elementary literacy classroom We talk about: Listen to the first episode in our compare and contrast series.  We are talking all about comparing, what it is, why it matters and how it impacts your literacy classroom.  Quotables:  -When we compare we are using a higher or thinking skill to discern the relationship between two or more things to decide how those things are similar to each other.  -It is important to teach students the skill of comparing because we are constantly asking students to make comparisons without first defining what that is and teaching them how to do it.  -Students need to be able to distinguish between things being similar or the same especially when it comes to comparing characters, settings or themes in the literacy classroom   Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Rote Vs. Meaningful Learning Richard Mayer (2002) Episode 97: Teaching for Transfer in Upper Elementary: The Difference Between Rote and Meaningful Learning Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Grab my free guide for keeping your mini lesson mini  Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    17 min

  7. FEB 27

    Helping students internalize what you've taught them

    In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the role modeling plays in increasing a student’s self-efficacy and self-regulation. This is a sneak peek at a workshop all about teaching students how to internalize what you've taught them. We talk about: What the research has to say is the missing link between what you’re teaching students and how to get them to internalize what you’ve taught them.  Quotables:  -Modeling plays a vital role in the first two levels of self-regulation. They provide the vehicle by which students can retain the information they observed and transform that into something that they can do on their own.  -Research shows that the missing link between modeling and your students internalizing what you’ve taught them is including: a value based goal, providing process driven feedback and verbalization of the strategy.  Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Schunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J. (2007). Influencing     children’s self-efficacy and self-regulation of reading and writing through modeling. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 23, 7-25.Link to Article For the Love of Real Learning Workshop Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Grab my free guide for keeping your mini lesson mini  Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    14 min

  8. FEB 12

    Teaching for Transfer: What is modeling and why does it matter in your literacy classroom?

    In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the importance of modeling in your literacy classroom. We talk about:  What modeling is, what the research says about it and how you can impact it so that you can increase student learning in your classroom. Quotables:  - Modeling is the process by which learners pattern their thoughts, beliefs and behaviors after those displayed by one or more models.  -Models provide students with examples of others who have successfully carried out the skill or strategy you are trying to teach. This serves as a form of proof that they too can learn to execute this skill or strategy.  -Modeling plays a vital role in the first two levels of self-regulation. They provide the vehicle by which students can retain the information they observed and transform that into something that they can do on their own.  Links to resources mentioned in the podcast: Schunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J. (2007). Influencing     children’s self-efficacy and self-regulation of reading and writing through modeling. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 23, 7-25.Link to Article ⁠For the Love of Real Learning Workshop ⁠ Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development Grab my free guide for keeping your mini lesson mini  Next Steps: If this episode resonated with you, take a screenshot of the episode and tag me on instagram @msevamireles.  This helps my show remain active in order to continue to help other upper elementary teachers get ideas they can use in their class today. The Reading Teacher’s Playbook  Search for my show on iTunes or Stitcher. Click on ‘Ratings and Reviews.’ Under ‘Customer Reviews,’ click on “Write a Review.” Sign in with your iTunes or Stitcher log-in info Leave a Rating: Tap the greyed out stars (5 being the best) Leave a Review: Type in a Title and Description of your thoughts on my podcast Click ‘Send’ Leave a Rating and Review:

    16 min
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Welcome to the Reading Teacher's Playbook—your go to source for upper elementary literacy teachers (grades 3-5) and those who support them, seeking evidence-based literacy practices. Listen in as Eva simplifies literacy instruction, promotes sustainable growth, and empowers you to create engaging lessons that make learning stick. Your host, Eva Mireles, will provide you with practical tips and tools for confident teaching, while fostering a love for reading in your students. Let's huddle up and learn together! Visit her website to learn more: https://evamireles.com/

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