
the Reading Brain with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg
12/09/22 • 69 min
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Shannon and Mary chat with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg from Reading Simplified about what happens in the brain during reading. We talk about the reader's journey to whole word recognition and how reading teachers can help their readers bolt on the orthography to what students already know in spoken language and language comprehension. Listeners will learn how to build a strong foundation for reading and how to help their students build flexible decoding strategies. Teachers will also hear examples of feedback to provide to readers in order to promote orthographic mapping. Check out this episode to learn all about how the brain learns to read.
Episode Links for Resources mentioned:
- Twitter image of the Reading Brain image by @empoweredliteracy
- Our Brains Were not Born to Read...right?
- Brain Builders Amplify-video series
- The Brain Dictionary
- Dr. Molly McCabe on the Science of Reading video
- Lecture by Dr. Stanislas Dehaene on "Reading the Brain"
- Cortex in the Classroom video
- Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Sanislas Dehaene *Amazon affiliate link, where we earn a small commission from your purchase*
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf *Amazon affiliate link*
- Keys to Literacy: How the Brain Learns to Read
- Lexia Learning: How the Human Brain Learns to Read
- Hill Learning Center: The Reading Brain video
- Cognitive Load
- Reading Brain patterns
- Eternal Triangle Model
- The Role of Set for Variability (Reading Rockets)
- Reading Simplified Switch It Activity
- Reading Simplified's YouTube Channel
- Reading Simplified on IG
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Shannon and Mary chat with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg from Reading Simplified about what happens in the brain during reading. We talk about the reader's journey to whole word recognition and how reading teachers can help their readers bolt on the orthography to what students already know in spoken language and language comprehension. Listeners will learn how to build a strong foundation for reading and how to help their students build flexible decoding strategies. Teachers will also hear examples of feedback to provide to readers in order to promote orthographic mapping. Check out this episode to learn all about how the brain learns to read.
Episode Links for Resources mentioned:
- Twitter image of the Reading Brain image by @empoweredliteracy
- Our Brains Were not Born to Read...right?
- Brain Builders Amplify-video series
- The Brain Dictionary
- Dr. Molly McCabe on the Science of Reading video
- Lecture by Dr. Stanislas Dehaene on "Reading the Brain"
- Cortex in the Classroom video
- Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Sanislas Dehaene *Amazon affiliate link, where we earn a small commission from your purchase*
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf *Amazon affiliate link*
- Keys to Literacy: How the Brain Learns to Read
- Lexia Learning: How the Human Brain Learns to Read
- Hill Learning Center: The Reading Brain video
- Cognitive Load
- Reading Brain patterns
- Eternal Triangle Model
- The Role of Set for Variability (Reading Rockets)
- Reading Simplified Switch It Activity
- Reading Simplified's YouTube Channel
- Reading Simplified on IG
COME JOIN THE CONVERSATION!
Our WebsiteFacebook
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Balancing It All as a Reading Teacher (with Guest Linda Rhyne)
Shannon and Mary ask Linda Rhyne to join them for a live Reading Teachers discussion about how to find balance in our reading instruction. Teachers are asked to follow various curriculum programs, teach the grade level standards, differentiate for their students' needs, and utilize their own expertise & experience. How can teachers blend all this together into cohesive literacy instruction that makes sense to students and themselves and balance what they're asked to do with what they know their students need to be successful in reading? All these points are brought up in the chat, and Linda shares some tips for how teachers can be critical consumers and advocates for their students in their individual school buildings. We hope this chat inspires you to think critically about your own teaching practice and instructional decisions.
Episode Links for Resources mentioned:
- It's Our Science blog post
- Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9
- Curriculum is Misunderstood
- Acadience Learning
- DIBELS Data System
- Upper Grade Fluency Activities
- Sold A Story by Emily Hanford
- Literacy View response to Sold a story
- Opinion response to Sold a Story
- NEPC: Ed in the Apple: The Reading Wars: Balanced Literacy versus Phonics, Revisited by Peter Goodman
- A balanced view of reading
- The Science of Reading Movement: The Never-Ending Debate and the Need for a Different Approach to Reading Instruction
- Both And
- Reading shifts
- https://twitter.com/lindaschultzie
- https://www.instagram.com/lindarhyneconsulting/
- https://www.lindarhyneconsulting.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/lindarhyneconsulting
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-schultz-rhyne-91704b93/
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Orthographic Mapping with Anna Geiger (The Measured Mom)
Shannon and Mary chat with Ann Geiger from The Measured Mom about how readers orthographically stores words in their reading brains. This episode follows our overview of the reading brain, where we talked about the reader's journey to whole word recognition and how reading teachers can help their readers bolt on the orthography to what students already know in spoken language and language comprehension. In this episode, we go into greater detail about best practices to do in the classrooms to help your students gain this meaningful letter sequence storage.
Episode Links for Resources mentioned:
- Dr. Linnea Ehri's List of Instructional Guidelines for Orthographic Mapping
- Why 3 Cueing is Ineffective
- Grapheme Deck
- Sight Words, Orthographic Mapping, Phonemic Awareness by Stephen Parker
- ISME tweet about Orthographic mapping
- Visual model showing morphology as a binding agent relating semantics, orthography, and phonology (J. Kirby and N. Bowers)
- How Orthographic Mapping Starts with Phonemic Proficiency
- Song for Kids about Orthographic Mapping
- Word Mapping Tool
- Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Sanislas Dehaene *Amazon affiliate link, where we earn a small commission from your purchase*
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf *Amazon affiliate link*
- The Measured Mom on Twitter
- The Measured Mom on Instagram
- The Measured Mom's Website
- The Measured Mom's Membership
- Shannon's High Frequency Word Mapping resources
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