S5 E16 Teaching and Reaching Diverse Learners

Reading specialists chat with a third-grade teacher about how she balances the wide variety of reading abilities in her classroom. The teacher shares about her trauma-informed teaching practices and how she uses visual literacy to provide learning scaffolds for her students.

Shannon BettsApril 20, 2023visual literacy, trauma informed teaching, visual strategies, elementary reading, diverse learners, neurodiversity, multiple modalities, hands on learning, English language learners

S5 E4 the Schwa

Shannon and Mary chat with Mindful Teacher Rachel about the Schwa vowel sound and how to teach it to students. She shares great stories from her classroom about teaching reading and all about her newly published book that can be used to introduce the Schwa to readers. You'll want to listen in on this chat between reading teachers to get strategies and resources for working on the Schwa with your own reading students.

Shannon BettsOctober 27, 2022vowel sounds, phonics, science of reading, schwa, unstressed vowel, multi-syllable words, lazy vowel, teaching reading, elementary reading