The Literacy Dive Podcast: Reading and Writing Strategies for Upper Elementary Teachers and Parents
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The Literacy Dive Podcast: Reading and Writing Strategies for Upper Elementary Teachers and Parents
Do you find yourself seeking new implementations when it comes to literacy instruction? Do you crave fresh ideas and engaging lessons to transform your students into skilled readers and writers? The Literacy Dive Podcast was created to provide educators, like you, with actionable steps and strategie...
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170. Interventions for Environmental Factors That Affect Reading Comprehension
Over the last month, we’ve been discussing all the different factors that can affect a student’s reading comprehension, even in upper elementary. We’v...
169. Interventions for Cognitive Factors That Affect Reading Comprehension
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been diving into intervention strategies for students who have difficulty with reading comprehension. The reality is tha...
168. Interventions for Fundamental Factors That Affect Reading Comprehension
Getting students in upper elementary on grade level with their reading and comprehension skills can be challenging because there are so many factors a...
167. Fundamental, Cognitive, and Environmental Factors That Affect Reading Comprehension
One, if not the biggest, thing we focus on as literacy teachers is getting our students to be successful readers. But as upper elementary teachers, yo...
166. 3 Scaffolds Every Reading Teacher Should Use
I’ve always made it a priority of mine to find simple yet effective strategies that support literacy teachers in the classroom. One of our main jobs a...
165. Time Management Test-Taking Strategies That Work
Over the last few episodes, I’ve been covering several test-taking strategies in order to help prepare your students for the end-of-year standardized...
164. Helping Students Manage and Overcome Test Anxiety
When it comes to preparing for a state standardized test, we tend to focus our energy and time on the content our students need to master in order to...
163. Response Ready: Tips for Helping Your Students Understand Writing Prompts
I’m so passionate about writing and helping students develop their skills and become better writers. One aspect of writing that is often complex and d...
162. Mastering the Basics: Reinforcing Core Writing Skills
Even though testing season isn’t here tomorrow, it is just around the corner and will be here before you know it. And instead of stressing and trying...
161. Strategies for Gradually Increasing Writing Time and Complexity
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been diving into the topic of student writing stamina. We’ve explored strategies to keep students engaged in writing, c...
160. 4 Ways to Increase Writing Endurance
In last week’s episode, we learned that writing stamina is built over time and includes more than just an amount of time, but when students are active...
159. Writing Stamina: 6 Challenges Students Face and How to Help Them
I am passionate about literacy, especially finding creative and engaging ways to get students writing. However, none of that matters if their writing...
158. 5 Podcasts You Should be Listening to in 2024
Podcasts are one of the fastest growing platforms to gain information in a short amount of time. I obviously love the idea of podcasts and how it can...
157. Sensory Storytelling: Using Sensory Details to Bring Writing to Life
Over the last month I’ve been sharing different ways you can engage your students in that helps develop their simple sentences into more detailed and...
156. Enhancing Sentences with Prepositions [Sentence Expansion Series]
We are now well into our series on how to enhance simple sentences using a variety of descriptive strategies. What I love about each new idea is that...
155. Joining Forces: Combining Sentences with Conjunctions [Sentence Expansion Series]
Over the last two weeks, I’ve been discussing different strategies that help with sentence expansion. In today’s episode, I’m sharing the third strate...
154. Make Writing Come to Life with the 5Ws and H Strategy [Sentence Expansion Series]
This series is all about how to easily get students to expand their sentences by adding details to their basic sentences. Last week’s strategy was all...
153. Using Adjectives and Adverbs to Brighten Up Student Writing [Sentence Expansion Series]
Happy New Year, my friends! Let's jump-start 2024 with some practical and easy strategies to expand student sentences. At the beginning of the year, o...
152. End of Year Inspiration: 25 Takeaways From 2023
With this being the last week of 2023, I wanted to take an opportunity to share some reflections I’ve had from this past year. I’ve been open on this...
151. Differentiated Instruction for ELLs: Scaffolding Techniques for All Levels with Beth Vaucher
We discuss all the time the difficulty that students have when it comes to writing and getting their ideas out on paper. But now imagine English isn’t...
150. Sure-Fire Strategies for Engaging Reluctant Writers
We all have those students who don’t like writing and have a lot of negative emotions surrounding writing in general. Even though winter break is comi...
149. Reading Beyond the Words: Active Reading Strategies for Student Understanding
Do you ever see students reading in your classroom that have great fluency and can recall the words on the page, but can’t give any details about what...
148. Merging Vocabulary with Writing: A Powerful Execution
I’ve loved going through the different stages of vocabulary from a basic understanding, misconceptions, strategies, and now how to use it as an emphas...
147. Strategies for Seamless Vocabulary Integration in the Classroom
Over the last few weeks, we’ve done a complete deep dive into vocabulary acquisition, its importance, and debunking common myths and misconceptions. N...
146. Debunking 4 Vocabulary Myths and Misconceptions in the Upper Elementary Classroom
Last week I brought attention to vocabulary acquisition and the importance of expanding your students’ vocabulary toolbox. But before you start incorp...
145. Unpacking the Role of Vocabulary Acquisition
One of our biggest roles as literacy teachers is to improve their comprehension skills. However, we rarely focus on the one component that gives stude...
144. Boost Daily Reading and Writing Excitement with This Spontaneous Routine
Are you looking for fun, creative, and engaging ways to get your students excited about reading and writing? If so, this is the episode for you! I lov...
143. Level Up Reading Comprehension Strategies with 11 Think-Aloud Prompts
Our goal as literacy teachers is to develop skilled readers and writers, so we often implement strategies that have students work on those skills. And...
142. Using Graphic Organizers to Support Quality Written Responses
As literacy teachers, our goal is to develop skilled readers and writers. And although we want our students to be independent in these areas, providin...
141. A 5-Step Read Aloud Routine to Expose Your Students to Diverse Texts
As literacy teachers we want to create an environment that helps develop students into skilled readers and writers. And although they’re often taught...
140. The Return: Where Have I Been?
I’m back, friends! I’d like to brush off my absence by taking a break for the summer to relax, travel, and enjoy the sun, but that wouldn’t be the tru...
139. Literacy Block Reflections and Ideas to Better Support Your Students
We often teach and practice reading and writing separately, but in reality, they work together to improve a students’ literacy skills. I know you all...
138. Science of Reading Tips for Upper Elementary with Sara Marye
While most of my episodes involve writing strategies and creative ways to get students writing in the classroom, literacy skills are developed and mas...
137. How to Make Diversity a Priority in Your Classrooms with Dr. Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica & Dr. Allison Briceño
With an ever evolving world, it’s important that our classrooms are adapting to the world we live in. One of the easiest and natural way to include di...
136. Acrostic Response & Tell All About It: Disguising Writing Part 3
For the last few weeks, I’ve been sharing creative writing ideas that get students writing and working on their literacy skills in a fun and non-threa...
135. Quick Write & Emoji Memories: Disguising Writing Part 2
Getting students to write and practice various literacy skills can be a daunting task, which is why I’ve loved coming up with different ways for disgu...
134. Picture This & Building Words: Disguising Writing Part 1
We all know the groans and complaining that happens when we ask students to write. But what if we could present writing in a way that is hidden or dis...
133. How the Enneagram Can Be a Powerful Teaching Tool with Kirsten Hammond
Today’s episode is on a topic that’s gaining popularity amongst everyone, which is the Enneagram test. This personality theory helps determine certain...
132. 5 Questions to Ask to Keep Any Writing Curriculum Grounded in Best Practices with Emily and Carrie
Incorporating writing that engages students into your instruction can be difficult, especially if you already have an established writing curriculum t...
131. Secrets to Engaging Students During Testing Season
Most teachers think that in order to prepare for the upcoming state test, they have to deviate from their normal routine and activities. When in reali...