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Welcome to POPCAST, Episode 14! This is part two of Jeff and Travis walking through a Patterns of Wonder lesson with Whitney La Rocca. If you are just tuning in, listen to episode 13 for part one.
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Welcome to POPCAST, Episode 13! In this episode, Jeff, Travis, and Whitney walk through a lesson from Patterns of Wonder on nouns. Learn how to build upon the wonder and curiosity that children naturally have and include play into your grammar lessons.
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Welcome to POPCAST, Episode 12! Whitney La Rocca joins Jeff and Travis again to talk more about the forthcoming Patterns of Wonder, a resource for teachers of emergent writers to help them meet the needs of the varied kinds of writing that is happening in their classrooms every day.
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Welcome to POPCAST, Episode 11! In this episode, Jeff and Travis welcome Whitney La Rocca, coauthor of Patterns of Power, to talk about the forthcoming Patterns of Wonder and how it can be used to build foundational skills for grades PreK–1.
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Despite a year filled with unprecedented challenges, our emergent learners have overcome a learning year like no other to become beginning readers and writers—and every gain has been hard earned! Enter the dilemma. On one hand your students need this summer break as much as you do to decompress, relax, recharge, and play after a year like no other. On the other hand, you know if your students don’t practice their newly acquired literacy skills, they face the dreaded “summer slide." So how can you encourage your students to do both?
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Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and Christy Hermann Thompson have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas.
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Welcome to POPCAST, Episode 10! In this episode, Jeff and Travis interview coordinator and ELA teacher at Stevenson Middle School in New York City, NY, Jodi Ramos, about the important work she is doing with the New York Times Teaching Project.
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Welcome to the seventh and final episode of The Six Shifts, with Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, co-authors of Shifting The Balance: Six Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom. In this series, Jan and Kari, with Stenhouse’s Dan Tobin, address misconceptions and misunderstandings that have discouraged educators from incorporating the science of reading into the balanced literacy classroom.
In this episode, Jan, Kari, and Dan dig into the sixth shift: Reconsidering Texts for Beginner Readers.
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Welcome to POPCAST, Episode 9! This is a special edition of the podcast where your hosts, Jeff Anderson and Travis Leech, answer listeners' questions that have come in since the release of this podcast and their new book, Patterns of Power, Grades 6-8. If you have any other questions for Jeff and Travis, head over to the Patterns of Power Community Facebook group. Happy listening!
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Welcome to episode 6 of The Six Shifts, with Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, co-authors of Shifting The Balance: Six Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom. In this series, Jan and Kari, with Stenhouse’s Dan Tobin, address misconceptions and misunderstandings that have discouraged educators from incorporating the science of reading into the balanced literacy classroom.
In this episode, Jan, Kari, and Dan dig into the fifth shift: Reinventing the Ways We Use MSV.
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