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Nov 2023
56m 57s

Best Reading Instructional Moves

Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Shannon chats with Lindsay Kemeny about her new book titled 7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-3 Reading Success.     Both Shannon and Lindsay have classroom experience teaching Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students, so their discussion was filled with details and stories about the best instructional strategies and techniques teachers should use to help their students become fluent readers.


RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

  1. 7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-to-3 Reading Success by Lindsay Kemeny *Amazon affiliate link
  2. Videos and Resources that accompany Lindsay's book
  3. Lindsay's website
  4. Lindsay on Twitter @LindsayKemeny
  5. Lindsay's Youtube channel
  6. Lindsay's blog
  7. FREE Science of Reading self-paced Professional Development unit from Lindsay
  8. FCRR Student Center Activities (Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, etc)
  9. Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners) by Anita L. Archer *Amazon affiliate link
  10. our Decodable Texts episode
  11. our Scope and Sequence episode with Wiley Blevins
  12. our Phonemic Awareness episode Season 4
  13. our Phonemic Awareness episode Season 1
  14.  Book a free call with us to tour our Patreon and see if it's right for you!
  15. Get Literacy Support through our Patreon

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