Show Notes: Season 2

Episode 1:

• Folder of resources/presentations from the Literacy Symposium

• Amplify Flyer

Episode 2:

• Amplify Unit Previews:

  • K-2

  • 3-5

  • 6-8

• Day to Day (Optional) Lesson Planner

• Amplify Coach for the district: Katie Molby

• Video link to access some lesson demonstrations in a few different grade levels.

• PD Library of video lessons

Episode 3:

• The Power of Knowledge e-book from Amplify

• Getting Started with Knowledge Based Learning e-book from Amplify

• Infographic on Knowledge Building from Amplify

• Results of Knowledge-Building Video from Amplify

• How can I prepare my Amplify ELA lessons?

  • The Lesson-at-a-Glance Compilation on the Unit Overview page summarizes what will be covered in each lesson, as well as the lesson objectives. Use it to familiarize yourself with the flow of activities and note your instructional emphasis during lesson planning. Additionally, each lesson comes with a teacher lesson brief that includes a preparation section full of helpful tips and suggestions. 

• The Knowledge-Rich Curriculum: The Next Frontier in the SoR? With Robert Podiscio (webinar)

Episode 4:

• More Evidence that our Approach to Reading Comprehension is All Wrong by Natalie Wexler

• Helping Teachers Bring the Science of Reading to Life  in their Classroom by Bailey Cato Czupryk

• mClass Benchmark time of year report

• mClass individual student instructional recommendations support

• Tips & Tricks Video from Kayla King (4th grade) (Warren Park)

• Tips & Tricks Fact Sheet from Nikki York (5th grade)

• Tips & Tricks Video (5th Grade from Nikki York (Wilson)

• Tips & Tricks Recording from Abigail Smedley (K-1 LBS1 resource teacher- Warren Park)

• Unlocking Potential, Word by Word: How Building Knowledge Right Builds Equity Webinar about districts that used Amplify - Q & A answers some D99 Questions 

Episode 5:

• Goyen Literacy Foundation

• Bios of Fellows

• Twitter Handles:

  • Becky Pallone-@MrsPallone

  • Claire Gunner-@drclairegunner

  • Miranda Eldridge-@MTEReading

• SoR classroom project of The Goyen Literacy Foundation-@SoRclassroom

• Goyen Literacy Foundation-@goyenfoundation

• Leaving the Balanced Literacy Habit Behind: A Theory of Change blog by Pamela Snow

• Book recommendations:

  • How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction by Sharon Walpole & Michael McKenna

  • Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, & Overcoming Reading Difficulties By David Kilpatrick

  • Bringing Words to Life by Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown, & Linda Kucan

  • Explicit Instruction by Anita Archer & Charles Hughes

    • Explicit Instruction Website

  • The Reading Mind by Daniel Willingham

  • Raising Kids Who Read By Daniel Willingham

• PaTTAN Literacy Symposium

• Recommended Podcasts:

  • Reading Horizons

  • Melissa & Lori Love Literacy

  • Voyager Sopris

  • Amplify SoR podcast

• The Reading League

• UFLI website

Episode 6:

• 6 Foundational Ways to Scaffold Student Learning by Youki Terada in Edutopia

• 5 Research Based Ways to Teach Vocabulary

• Exploring New Curricula - Knowledge Matters Campaign

Episode 7:

• 3 Ways Quality Instructional Coaching Impacts Teacher Efficacy

• How Coaching can Impact Teachers, Principals, & Students by Elena Aguilar

• Coaching for Teachers: What School Leaders Need to Consider by Rico Patzer

• Amplify Topics with Celebration Ideas

• Webinar: Unlocking Potential Word by Word: How Building Knowledge Right Builds Equity (2 districts that have used Amplify Curriculum Share)

Episode 8:

• Volunteer Literacy Project-founder Larissa Phillips

• Rex Runs Off! Series (decodable books by Larissa Phillips for older kids still needing phonics practice)

• How to Thrive with Dyslexia in Adulthood by Kathyrn Thalke

• Does it Matter if Some Can’t Read by James Murphy

• Low Literacy Levels
  Among Adults could be Costing the Economy 2.2 Trillion a Year by Michael Nietzel in Forbes

• A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why are we Failing Them? by  Annie Waldman, Aliyya Swaby and Anna Clark, with additional reporting by Nicole Santa Cruz, photography by Kathleen Flynn, special to ProPublica

• Wanted: Volunteers to Teach Reading to Adults by Kathleen Moore

Episode 9:

• Aldine School District

• Aldine adopts Amplify-their story

• Making the Shift to SoR

• Aldine revamps literacy program

• Year 2 of Aldine’s move to raise reading achievement

• What are learning labs?

• Grace;s Twitter Handle:@delgadong94

Look fors:

• Literacy Matters Conference-free & Virtual

• Seed Conference-student educational & Equity conference

Episode 10:

• Comprehensive Reading Curricula and Teacher Expertise: We Don’t Have to Choose by Kata Solow

• 4 Steps for Making New Curriculum Stick

• High Quality Curriculum Implementation

• Tier 3 Instruction and Intervention by PaTTAN

• When Young Readers get Stuck by Nell Duke

• What We Know About Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports in Charts by Eesha Pendharkar

Episode 11:

• Literacy Talks Podcast sponsored by Reading Horizons

• Why Putting the SoR into Practice is so Challenging by Sarah Schwartz

• Will the SoR Catch Up in Teacher Prep by Madeline Will

•  EdWeb-webinar: What Pre-service Teachers Need to Know

• Southern Utah University Among Best for Exemplary Preparation of Elementary Teachers

• 7 Mighty Moves by Lindsay Kemeny

• 7 Mighty Moves for Reading Success presentation by Lindsay Kemeny at ORTli

• Ehri’s Phases of Reading Development 

• Top 10 Tools

• PaTTAN literacy hub

• Cox CampusAIM Institute

• Morpheme Magic

Episode 12:

• SLD Project

• SLD Support Project Annual Conference-register here

• Dyslexia Guide Webinar for Parents on 2/6/24-register here

• Dyslexia Guide Webinar for Educators on 2/7/24

• The Reading League Illinois Chapter

• Illinois Early Literacy Coalition 

• Everyone Reading Illinois

• Pedagogy Non-Grata Podcast

• Reading Rockets

• Reading Universe

• Reading Research Recap

• Literacy Justice for All Act

• Illinois Comprehensive Literacy Plan

• Dyslexia Handbook

Episode 13:

• @emytomita    Emy’s Twitter Handle:

• ILA Member Spotlight

• Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall by Corwin

• Additional Lang. Arts Resources for CKLA from Aldine

Episode 14:

• The Syntax Project 

• To Improve Students’ Writing Teach them to Construct Sentences and Outline Paragraphs by Natalie Wexler

• Amplify Pics of Kinder-Pollination - Mrs. Tsagaris

• Amplify Topics Celebration Ideas

• 1st grade Human Body 

• 1st grade human Body - Mrs. Chmiel

• 1st grade phases of the moon - Mrs. Chmiel

• Studying the Earth at the Field Museum (all about knowledge)-Mrs. Chmiel

• Kings and Queens - Mrs. Tsagaris

Episode 15:

• Kinder Writing-1

• Kinder-Writing-2

• Kinder-Writing-3

• Kinder-Writing-4

• Kinder-Writing-5

• Road to Reading SoR resource page

• Word Chaining with Kinder video

• Word Chaining with Kinder #2 video

• Word Chaining with Kinder-whole class - video

• Knowledge & vocabulary learning with kinder around pollination - video

• Cox Campus

• Achieve the Core

• Aim Institute

• Amplify SoR Course

• LETRS

• Brain Research Shows Why Handwriting Should be Taught in the Computer Age by Karin James and Virginia Berninger

• Sentence Expanding from Iowa Research Center

• Seeing the Good in Balanced Literacy and Moving On…by Right to Read Project

• How Does Writing Fit into the SoR? By Stephen Sawchuk

• How to Integrate Writing Across the Curriculum in Your Classroom by Dr. Troy Hicks

• How to Teach Tricky Words by Phonics Hero

Episode 16:

• October's All Things Curriculum focused on mClass and mClass Lectura Home Connection Report and Caregiver letters.   

• November All Things Curriculum focused on Caregiver letters and Digital Components from Amplify for K - 5.

• December All Things Curriculum shared mid year benchmark updates as well as student celebrations in Amplify and Galeria.  The District Data - 12.1.23 from Mastery Connect was highlighted here.

• Integrating Literacy Across the Curriculum: An Easy Way to Start by Harvey Silver, Matthew Perini, Abigail Boutz

• Integrating Literacy Instruction with Science & Social Studies by Timothy Shanahan

Episode 17:

• Making Curriculum Matter to Students by Erin Nerlino

• The Value of Soliciting Student Feedback by Crystal Frommert

• A Teacher’s Thoughts on the Core Knowledge Language Arts Curriculum by Achieve the Core

Episode 18:

• D99 Reading Assessment Continuum FY24

• Tier 1 is Risk Reduction with Dr. Stephanie Stollar

• Instructionally Relevant Diagnostic Assessment of Comprehension with Dr. Stephanie Stollar

• CFOL assessment

• Dr. Stephanie Stollar and CFOL assessment

• Screening & Assessment by Reading Rockets

• Reading Assessment Basics by Keys to Literacy

• Progress Monitoring Implementation Guide

• You May be Right, I May be Crazy-Blog by Dr. Stephanie Stollar on Tier 1 Instruction

• Differentiation Done Right: How “Walk to Read” Works by Right to Read Project

• 95% Group Multisyllabic Routines

• Word Connections by Dr. Jessica Toste

• Rewards Program by Anita Archer

Episode 19:

• Hard Words Podcast

• At a Loss for Words Podcast

• What the Words Say Podcast

• Sold a Story Podcast-included 2 new episodes

• Sold a Story-Extra Credit (provides resources if you sign up)

• S2E1:Behind & Beyond Sold a Story with Emily Hanford (Reading Roadmap Podcast by Kate Winn)

• Districts that Succeed by  Karin Chenoweth

• 10 Maxims: What We’ve Learned so Far About How Children Learn to Read by Reid Lyon

• About the science in the “Science of Reading” by Mark Seidenberg (Reading Matters)

• Which States have Passed Science of Reading Laws? What’s in Them? By Sarah Schwartz

• How Legislation on Reading Instruction is Changing Across the Country by Christopher Peak

Episode 20:

• Curriculum Insight Project

• Knowledge Matters Campaign

• Curriculum Matters

• How Gaps in Content Knowledge Hold Students Back by Tara Mathewson (Hechinger Report)

• What’s Missing from States’ Reading Laws? The Role of Content Knowledge by Stephen Sawchuk

• Beyond the Word Wall: Building Knowledge Transfer Over Time to Accelerate Learning-Ethan Scherer 

• Putting a New Study on Building Knowledge into Perspective-Natalie Wexler

• 3 Ways to Prioritize Multilingual Learners in your Curriculum Adoption Process-edreports ( a collection of resources on supporting ML learners with high quality curriculum)

• How Building Knowledge Boosts Literacy and Learning by Education Next

• Developing ML Proficiency with Academic Language-Core Learning

• Science of Reading Podcast-Amplify

• Amplify Literacy Webinar Library

• Rivet Education

• The Reading League-Compass

Episode 21:

• What is a Knowledge Building Curriculum by Jenny Taylor

Episode 22:

• 4 Types of MTSS assessments by Reading Rockets

• MTSS webinar by Dr. Stephanie Stollar sponsored by Everyone reads PA

• PM Implementation Guide

• https://www.smore.com/n/2bzpd-mtss-minute-march-2024

• MTSS Tiered Toolbox

• Toolbox Idea Submission Form

• Resources: MTSS and Intervention handbook, Solution Tree- Taking Action, Solution Tree/ RtI @ Work book series - Best Practices at Tier 1/2/3, Doable Differentiation by Jane Kise, PRIM Book (all school APs and SWs have copies), and RTI by Mellard & Johnson

• Structured Literacy Interventions by Louise Spear-Swerling

• Structured Literacy Intervention Planner by Louise Spear-Swirling

• 10 Success Factors for Literacy Interventions

• Next Steps in Literacy Instruction by Deb Glaser & Susan Smart

• The Dyslexia Guide

• The Dyslexia Toolkit

Episode 23:

• Strive for Five Conversations by Tricia Zucker and Sonia Cabell

• Cooperatieve Structures 

• Teaching Strategies Toolbox

• More cooperative structures

• The Reading League Compass-ML

Episode 24:

• Think Again: Should Elementary Schools Teach Reading Comprehension? By Daniel Buck-Fordham Inst.

• Taking Curriculum Implementation Seriously by Robert Pondiscio-Fordham Inst.

• We are all Language Teachers: How Structured Literacy Supports Multilingualism and Literacy in English by CORE Learning