Episode 1: Teaching Disciplinary Literacy

  This is a guest podcast from the Council for Exceptional Children. Kara Hume interviews Eric Claravall on his action research on children with special needs and literacy strategies involving increased reading fluency by explicit teaching of morphology. You can learn more about the Council …

We discuss historical thinking. Skills students use in history include sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating and close reading. History isn’t just memorization of facts, but developing critical thinking skills specific to the discipline. More info: Read more about historical thinking at …

Students must learn math concepts and vocabulary simultaneously. Computational knowledge and fluency flow from being able to speak the language of math. We discuss ways that students can interact with the language, learn vocabulary, and our own classroom struggles trying to teach students to be mor…