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Teacher with Students Working Behind Her

Research to the Classroom - Dyad Reading Part 3 - Teacher Talk



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INTRODUCTION

Jocelyn: Hey Kirby, how are you going?

Kirby: Good. Thank you. How are you?

Jocelyn: I'm excellent now that you're here. It's so fantastic to have you here for our very first teacher talk episode of the podcast. Kirby, why don't you share with our listeners who you are, where you teach, what you do, how long you've been teaching for and all the things?

Kirby: Sure. So my name's Kirby. This will be my 12th year of teaching. I worked out earlier, wh…

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People Working at Table Framed

S2 E10 - A NICE Framework for Choosing a New Approach



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Introduction.
Hi there. It's brilliant to have you here with me for this episode of the Structured Literacy Podcast. My name is Jocelyn, and I hope that you are having a fantastic day. I'd like to begin this episode by acknowledging the Palawa people of Tasmania and the 40,000 year connection that they share with the lands and waterways of this beautiful place that I have the privilege of living in.

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Today's Topic - NICE.
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Students Working at Desks

S2 E8 - Why isn't my Tier 1 Instruction working?



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Hello, and welcome to the Structured Literacy Podcast. My name is Jocelyn, and I'm so pleased that you've decided to join me for this episode. A little while ago, I created an episode called, Why Isn't My Tier Two Instruction Working? This was episode three of season two. In this episode, I shared several reasons that things might not be going to plan and suggested ways that schools might strengthen Tier-two practices to make them as effective …

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Students Reading at Desks

S1 E16 - 5 Evidence-informed Alternatives to Independent Silent Reading



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Introduction.
Hello everyone. Welcome to The Structured Literacy Podcast. Once again, It's me, Jocelyn, and I am so pleased to welcome you. If you haven't listened to our podcast before, have a flick back through our previous episodes. We've got goodies there, like why it's so scary to let go of benchmark reading assessment and an answer to the question of should you go rogue if your viewpoints on reading instruction differ from your schools.

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Small steps - big results

Simple Steps for Big Change


It is the school holidays and I know that it is very likely you have half of your brain occupied by what you’ll be doing next term to create great learning opportunities for your students.  You might have big plans that you are excited about, or you might have big wishes that you know you can’t implement because your school still follows a balanced literacy approach.  Whether you are in the first or second situation, I want you to know that while our goal is to have a fully evidence aligned cl…

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Decodable Readers Australia - Level 1 - Resources

Using Decodable Texts to Meet Student Needs



We have all heard about decodable texts and the need to ditch 3 cueing.  It is now well established that children should only be given material to read in the early stage of learning to read that contains graphemes and high frequency words they have been taught and that 'sounding out' is the only strategy we should be teaching when children are lifting the words from the page.  However, even this switch to decodable texts does not mean that one size fits all. 

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