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Reading Road Trip

International Dyslexia Association Ontario

Education

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Frequency: 1 episode/21d. Total Eps: 56

In each episode of Reading Road Trip from IDA Ontario, host and classroom teacher Kate Winn explores evidence-based literacy instruction with a fabulous guest. From researchers and authors to educators and advocates, they're all sharing practical ideas that can be implemented now in your class, school or district! Support our podcast by making a donation on our website: https://www.idaontario.com/donate/

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Season 4 Coming June 30!

Season 4

Thursday, June 12, 2025 • Duration 02:43

Buckle up - Reading Road Trip is back for a fourth season!

Join classroom teacher Kate Winn for a jam-packed season featuring fabulous guests. From researchers and authors to educators and practitioners, they're all sharing practical ideas that can be implemented now in your class, school, board or district!

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Surprise! Special Bonus Episode: Kate & Una Share Road Bumps and Refuels

Season 3 · Episode 11

Saturday, January 11, 2025 • Duration 33:37

For this surprise bonus episode, buckle up and join Kate Winn and Una Malcolm for a candid conversation about all things reading! Kate and Una share their "road bumps" and "refuels" along the road to reading for all.

Stay tuned for Season 4 of Reading Road Trip this summer where we'll bring another carload of fabulous guests along for the ride.

Keen to explore some of the resources Kate and Una mentioned in the episode?

Kate's UFLI in Ontario Kindergarten document, co-authored with Dr. Holly Lane and Dr. Valentina Contesse
Season 3 Episode 1 of Reading Road Trip featured Dr. Anita Archer and Dr. Sonia Cabell
SISEP and NIRN host the Active Implementation Formula Framework Modules
IDA's Perspectives on Language and Literacy has an issue focused on implementation
Dr. Stephanie Stollar has an active Facebook page and leads the Reading Science Academy
ONlit's Screening: The Reel Deal is a series of short videos addressing common questions about early reading screening
Dr. Diana Burchell was a guest on Season 1 Episode 9, and Dr. Steve Graham joined us for Episode 9 of Season 2
Mount St. Joseph University offers access to their library database through the Center for Reading Science membership program
Ontario teachers - the wonderful Jenni vanRees made this brief video showing how to navigate the OCT Library

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S3 E2: Reading Science Surprises with Anna Geiger

Season 3 · Episode 2

Monday, July 8, 2024 • Duration 43:18

This week, Kate welcomes fellow podcaster Anna Geiger from The Measured Mom. As two teachers who have shifted from balanced literacy to structured literacy, this episode is filled with candid discussion as Kate and Anna highlight the biggest surprises they encountered along the way!

Anna is the CEO of The Measured Mom, host of Triple R Teaching, and the author of the soon-to-be released book, Reach All Readers: Using the Science of Reading to Transform Your Literacy Instruction.

Show Notes:

Emily Hanford's reporting, including her article At a Loss for Words, was key to Anna's structured literacy journey. Catch Emily's season 2 episode of Reading Road Trip, too!
Dr. Mark Seidenberg's book, Language at the Speed of Sight, provides comprehensive insight into how students learn to read, challenging instructional practices that aren't aligned with this research
Ready for the tables to be turned? Anna interviewed Kate on Triple R Teaching with an episode focusing on structured literacy in kindergarten

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S3 E1: Live with Dr. Anita Archer & Dr. Sonia Cabell!

Season 3 · Episode 1

Monday, July 1, 2024 • Duration 52:06

Season 3 of Reading Road Trip kicks off with a candid conversation between literacy greats: Dr. Anita Archer and Dr. Sonia Cabell.

Anita and Sonia recorded this episode at the 2024 Literacy & Learning Conference. Their conversation is both thoughtful and lighthearted - we hope you will enjoy!

Show Notes:

Sonia is a co-author of the new book Strive-for-Five Conversations: A Framework That Gets Kids Talking to Accelerate Their Language Comprehension and Literacy
Anita is a co-author of the legendary text Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching
All About Words: Increasing Vocabulary in the Common Core Classroom by Tanya Wright and Susan Neuman is a book both Sonia and Anita discussed
Anita mentioned the research on Direct Instruction. This is summarized in the book All Students Can Succeed: A Half Century of Research on the Effectiveness of Direct Instruction
Kate brought up a document Anita wrote on scaffolding reading comprehension
Check out Kate's new home office setup - complete with a set of Archerisms!

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Season 3 Coming July 1!

Season 3 · Episode 1

Friday, June 14, 2024 • Duration 02:38

Buckle up - Reading Road Trip is back for a third season!

Join classroom teacher Kate Winn for a jam-packed season featuring fabulous guests. From researchers and authors to educators and advocates, they're all sharing practical ideas that can be implemented now in your class, school, board or district!

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S2 E10: Reading Science: What Teachers Really NEED To Know with Dr. Jennifer Buckingham

Season 2 · Episode 10

Monday, March 4, 2024 • Duration 01:04:23

Season 2 of Reading Road Trip closes out with a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Buckingham. Kate and Jennifer dig into reading science - what do teachers really need to know? From syllable types to comprehension strategies, linguistic terms to cognitive science, this episode distinguishes between what is a "need to know" and what is "nice to know."

Dr. Jennifer Buckingham is the director of strategy and senior research fellow at MultiLit, and is the founder and director of the Five from Five Literacy Project.

Show Notes:

Jennifer's research report, Need to Know or Nice to Know, explores many of the topics discussed in the episode
Kate also mentioned Jennifer's blog Don't Discard Comprehension Strategies
Jennifer brought up Dr. Daniel Willingham's blog, Can Children be Taught to Comprehend What They Read?

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S2 E9: How To Teach Writing with Dr. Steve Graham

Season 2 · Episode 9

Monday, February 26, 2024 • Duration 36:56

In this week's episode, Kate chats with Dr. Steve Graham about all things writing. Dr. Graham highlights the importance of handwriting and spelling, and unpacks evidence-based strategy instruction to build strong writers.

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Steve is an author and editor of many books, including Best Practices in Writing Instruction and Writing Better
Steve and his co-author Dolores Perin explore many of the evidence-based strategies discussed in this episode in Writing Next, a meta-analysis on effective writing instruction
Learn more about Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) at thinkSRSD, or with the books Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students or Building Comprehension in Adolescents

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S2 E8: Dyslexia Facts, Myths and Strategies with Dr. Jack Fletcher

Season 2 · Episode 8

Monday, February 19, 2024 • Duration 44:55

Kate chats with Dr. Jack Fletcher this week, unpacking all things dyslexia: Risk factors and prevention, dyslexia vs dysteachia, instructional tips, wait-to-fail, and dyslexia myths and misconceptions.

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Learn more about some of the articles Jack mentioned:

The importance of early reading intervention (Lovett et al., 2017)
Problems with dyslexia identification models (Scientific American)
Helping children with significant reading problems (Vaughn & Fletcher, 2023)
Identifying and teaching students with significant reading problems - including 18 common misunderstandings of dyslexia (Vaughn & Fletcher, 2020-2021)
The role of instruction in learning to read: Preventing reading failure in at-risk children (Foorman et al., 1998)
The Good Behaviour Game
Anxiety and reading (Grills-Taquechel et al., 2012)

S2 E7: Novels in the Elementary Class: Best Practices with Clara Maria Fiorentini

Season 2 · Episode 7

Monday, February 12, 2024 • Duration 44:48

Kate chats with Clara Fiorentini this week. Tune in to explore novels in the classroom: how class novel studies fit into structured literacy, how complex text can be scaffolded, using "read-alikes" to choose texts, and avoiding the perils of "extractitis" - don't miss this thoughtful conversation about chapter books!

Clara is the president of the Literacy Association of Ireland and a lecturer in initial teacher education at Marino Institute of Education. She is wrapping up her Ph.D. research on current trends in Irish preschool literacy practice. Catch Clara at her blog, on Instagram, and on Twitter.

Show Notes:

Clara talks about the Matthew effect, an influential paper from Dr. Keith Stanovich that highlights that with early reading, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Take a look at the open-access paper here.
Dr. Tim Shanahan has several blogs about the importance of using complex text in reading instruction.
Clara mentions Reading for Pleasure from the Open University - see more here.
The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction, an article by Nell Duke, Alessandra Ward and David Pearson, can be found here.
Learn more about book tastings on Clara's blog.

S2 E6: Classroom Comprehension with Dr. Kristin Conradi Smith, Tamara Williams & Ellen Frackelton

Season 2 · Episode 6

Monday, February 5, 2024 • Duration 44:37

This week Kate talks to Kristin Conradi Smith, Tammy Williams, and Ellen Frackelton about research-based comprehension strategies for the classroom, including considerations for text selection and preparation, common pitfalls to avoid and “use it tomorrow” ideas. Bottom line: no more strategy of the week!

Show Notes:

Kristin, Ellen and Tammy co-wrote the open-access article "No More Strategy of the Week": Considerations for Connecting Comprehension Instruction Back to the Book. Find it here.
In this PaTTAN webinar, Hugh Catts discusses the multidimensional nature of reading comprehension sharing how educators need to frame reading comprehension and provide meaningful instruction.
Dr. Catts also wrote this article for American Educator, Rethinking How to Promote Reading Comprehension
Kristin mentions this video from Reading Rockets, where Dr. Sharon Walpole walks through comprehension as building meaning and not finding the correct answer
Bookworms is a free set of instructional resources mentioned in the episode
Ellen brings up this blog post by Dr. Tim Shanahan, where he highlights that "reading comprehension should be taught with texts that are worth reading, texts from which we want students to gain knowledge."

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