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Heartland AEA Literacy Newsletter

April 2022

Science of Reading Podcast: What it takes to be a literacy education changemaker
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“In order to save our kids and to get them competitive in the information age, they have to be able to access information. And so we’ve got to focus on literacy.” Kareem Weaver
Click the button above to listen to the podcast.

Intervention Intensification Strategy Checklist - Click Here
Intervention Intensification Strategy Checklist
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"For more information about intensifying interventions, check out our website, www.intensiveintervention.org. Before adapting or intensifying an intervention, always consider whether the current intervention program has been implemented with fidelity and for a sufficient amount of time."

Scaffolding the Explainer
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Watch this short video produced by the Iowa Reading Research Center. Scaffolding gives students access to the work of the day, so that over time the scaffolds can be removed leading to greater independence with tasks.

Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk: 10 Key Practices

10 Key Policies and Practices for Explicit Instruciton

10 Key Practices for incorporating explicit instruction into your daily practice. According to the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, these practices come from strong evidence of effectiveness from high quality research.

10 Key Reading Practices for All Elementary Schools

There are 10 key reading practices that every elementary school can incorporate that align with structured literacy instruction. This document also includes grade level descriptions of what students should know and be able to do.

10 Key Reading Practices for All Middle and High Schools

There are 10 key reading practices that impact student achievement for adolescent readers. This document includes selected grade level descriptions of what students should know and be able to do.

Instructional Strategies that Push Students to Own Thinking - Click Here
Instructional Strategies that Push Students to Own the Thinking
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"Giving students more frequent opportunities to be responsible for “doing the thinking” not only helps them build the knowledge and skills they need to deeply understand the content, but can also build students’ motivation in school and lead to deeper engagement in their learning."

Motivating Students

Daring Classrooms

Brene Brown - "A daring classroom is a place where both teachers and students commit to choosing courage over comfort, choosing what is right over what is fun, fast or easy and practicing values rather than professing them."

Teaching Methods for Inspiring the Students of the Future

Are you finding yourself in need of motivation? The last two years have been especially tough in education, if you need a reminder of why you do what you do every day watch this inspiring tedX talk.

How to motivate middle schoolers: Kamilah Simpson

Motivating adolescent students can be hard at any time, but especially during the spring semester. Kmilah Simpson speaks from her own experiences on how she motivated middle school students. Take a listen to her recent engaging podcast on Amplify.

Understanding and Using Spring Screening Data - Click Here
Planning for Fall Instruction
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During the spring and summer months leaders and teachers plan for fall instruction. Schedule changes, instructional changes as well as grouping students all impact setting up the school year for success. Read the linked article for ways to maximize the use of your FastBridge data as you plan forward.
Bit by Bit - Decodable Readers - Click Here
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In Case you Missed it!
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