In this episode:

Listen in as I wrap up as we recap the top 5 podcast episodes of 2024.

We talk about:

The top 5 most listened to episodes of the podcast this year and the main takeaways. I also included a tip for a learning process that you can help influence when we come back from winter break. 

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Research: 

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The Reading Teacher’s Playbook 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about why your students may not be applying what you’ve taught them and some ways to fix that.

We talk about:

 The what, the why and the how of teaching students in their zone of proximal development. What the research says good learning is. Tangible steps for making this happen in your classroom.

Quotables: 

- Zone of proximal development is the distance between what a child can do independently (actual development) and what they can do with assistance (level of potential development).

-  Good learning is defined as what is delivered in advance of development.

-Providing appropriate support means that you allow students to engage in productive struggle. 

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Interaction Between Learning and Development 

Launching Independent Reading Workshop

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The Reading Teacher’s Playbook 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about how to bridge the gap between rote learning and meaningful learning in your upper elementary literacy classroom.

We talk about:

The what, the why and the how of teaching students so that they apply what you’ve taught them. Learn what the research says the goal of learning is. Walk away with tangible steps for making this happen in your classroom.

Quotables: 

- Teaching for transfer matters in our literacy classrooms. It is the entire point of teaching. It’s what helps our students grow as readers, thinkers and learners. 

- Transfer is what we think of when we teach a student how to divide words into syllables during our word study time and then the same student is able to use this knowledge to decode multisyllabic words during their independent reading time.  

-As educators we need to ensure that students understand that what they are about to learn matters and why. Making sure that students know why they are learning something is one way to attain student attention. 

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Rote Vs. Meaningful Learning Richard Mayer (2002)

Launching Independent Reading Workshop

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The Reading Teacher’s Playbook 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about promoting self leadership through cultivating a community of readers in the upper elementary literacy classroom.

We talk about:

The what, the why and the how of building independence by promoting self leadership through cultivating a community of readers in the upper elementary literacy classroom.

Quotables: 

-Cultivating a community of readers means that we create an environment where upper elementary students take on the identity of reader no matter what their current proficiency level with reading may be.  

- Cultivating a community of readers in your literacy classroom matters, because your classroom could be the only place where students have gotten to claim that identity. 

-We need to teach students what it means to be a reader and how to be part of a community of readers.

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Launching Independent Reading Workshop

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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 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about promoting self leadership through growing critical thinkers and readers in the literacy classroom.

We talk about:

The what, the why and the how of building independence by promoting self leadership through growing critical thinkers and readers in your upper elementary literacy classroom.

Quotables: 

-Growing critical thinkers and readers means that we create an environment where upper elementary students read a text, think about the text and respond to the text in a way that clarifies their thinking. 

-  We need to help our students become critical thinkers and readers because it’s in the reading, thinking and writing about what they have read that students begin to formulate their thinking. 

-Take time to remind students of what it means to be a critical thinker. Students are not going to remember how to apply critical thinking skills on their own.

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Launching Independent Reading Workshop

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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 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about promoting self leadership through nurtutring a big word mindset.

We talk about:

The what, the why and the how of building independence by promoting self leadership through nurturing a big word mindset in your upper elementary literacy classroom.

Quotables: 

-A big word mindset is one in which a student has developed confidence in their ability to attempt and successfully decode a multisyllabic word.

-  If students don’t have a strategy and a track record for success when it comes to tackling big words, then they will just avoid them. 

-Take time to point out when you notice students displaying a big word mindset. Explicitly name what the student did and how that helped them.

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Launching Independent Reading Workshop

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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 

In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about promoting self leadership through goal setting as a way to foster independence in your literacy classroom. 

We talk about:

The what, the why and the how of building independence by promoting self leadership through goal setting in your upper elementary literacy classroom.

Quotables: 

-Self leadership in the literacy classroom is a student's ability to define a goal they are working towards based on their knowledge of themselves and the areas that they want to grow in as it relates to literacy.

- If students are simply just trying to get better at something, but don’t have a goal for what they are trying to achieve then their efforts will be in vain. 

-A goal is only effective in motivating self leadership if a student remembers what it was. 

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Launching Independent Reading 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 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we talk about helping students develop a growth mindset in order to foster independence during your upper elementary literacy block. 

We talk about:

The what, the why and the how of building independence by cultivating a growth mindset in your upper elementary literacy classroom.

Quotables: 

-Independence is the ability of a student to do something that we have taught them to do without relying on us and being capable of acting for oneself.

-In order to cultivate independence in our literacy classrooms we need to make helping students develop a growth mindset part of our plan.

-We set the tone for this shift in student thinking and we have to ensure that we are ready to highlight the positive examples of growth mindset when we see them. 

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Launching Independent Reading Workshop

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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 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we continue our summer book study of the book “Big Words For Young Readers” by Heidi Anne Mesmer. 

We talk about:

Chapters 7 and 8 of the book which covers the skills that students working on 2nd-5th grade skills should be taught and how to teach them.

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Sign Up for summer podcast book study

Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development

Grab my free guide for keeping your mini lesson mini 

Summer Bucket List Resource

Online Summer Conferences:

SImply Coaching Summit 2024

Mind Your Coaching Institute 2024

Linked Upper Elementary Teacher Conference 

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 

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In this episode:

Listen in as we continue our summer book study of the book “Big Words For Young Readers” by Heidi Anne Mesmer. 

We talk about:

Chapters 5 and 6 of the book which covers the skills that students working on K-2nd grade skills should be taught and how to teach them.

Links to resources mentioned in the podcast:

Sign Up for summer podcast book study

Book a discovery call for one on one coaching or school professional development

Grab my free guide for keeping your mini lesson mini 

Summer Bucket List Resource

Online Summer Conferences:

SImply Coaching Summit 2024

Mind Your Coaching Institute 2024

Linked Upper Elementary Teacher Conference 

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 

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