A teammate, colleague, friend, and long time educator talks with us about being a good consumer of research and policy in an effort to create equitable literacy instruction for all students, which means meeting them where they are.

Authors and researchers mentioned include: Dr. Jan Burkins & Kari Yates, Dr. Rachel Gabriel, Paul Thomas, Scarborough's Reading Rope, John Sedita's Writing Rope

Check out the resources Cynde mentions: https://tinyurl.com/TALCynde

Dr. Tim Rasinski joins us to talk about the Science, but also just as important, the Art of Teaching Reading. The art of teaching can be found in performing, poetry, nursery rhymes. Where the science is in the explicit and systematic teaching of phonics. Both are important, and in effort to reach comprehension, we talk about how fluency and phonics must work together. This episode is PD for teachers; full of ideas, researchers names, and just the great stuff that Tim is doing!

Learn more about Tim on his site: http://www.timrasinski.com/ & follow him on Twitter @TimRasinski1

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