Jennifer Serravallo interviews Dr. Carla España and Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera for a conversation about supporting bilingual and multilingual students in monolingual or dual language classrooms. They discuss culturally and linguistically-affirming and sustaining practices, their advice for choosing texts to use for literacy lessons, and they share examples of some lessons we can use in classrooms right away. In the second half, Jen is joined by her colleagues, bilingual educators and consultants, Cristy Rauseo, Clarisa Leal, and Angie Forero to discuss what we can bring to the classroom right away.

Jennifer Serravallo interviews Debbie Reese to talk about her scholarship focused on Native representation in children’s literature, her AICL resource, and advice for teachers about selecting texts to use in the classroom. In the second half, Jen is joined by colleagues Lainie Powell, Angie Forero, and Molly Wood to discuss practical takeaways.

Jennifer Serravallo interviews Dr. HyeJin Hwang about some of her recent studies focusing on knowledge building. They explore different models for understanding comprehension (Kinch’s Construction Integration Model and Connor’s Lattice Model), discuss implications for text selection and strategy instruction alongside knowledge-building. Jen is joined by colleague Gina Dignon for an extended conversation about practical takeaways.

Jennifer Serravallo, host of To the Classroom, interviews Dr. Tanya Wright, about her research focused on knowledge building and vocabulary, and comprehension. After the discussion about research, Jen is joined by college Macie Kerbs for a conversation about practical takeaways.

Podcast transcript for To the Classroom with Jennifer Serravallo and Rachael Gabriel.

A full transcript of To the Classroom Episode 8 with Gabriel DellaVecchia, Jennifer Serravallo, Lea Leibowitz, and Darren Victory. We discuss third grade retention laws.

Jennifer Serravallo interviews Dr. Henry May, a researcher who has looked into the popular first grade intervention Reading Recovery. They discuss results of two robust studies he was involved in—one showing strong positive effects in first grade, and another showing students who received the intervention underperformed years later on their third and fourth grade tests. We discuss why that might be, and what lessons we can learn about short term and ongoing interventions, as well as the ways that reading needs change and develop across grades K-4.

Jennifer Serravallo interviews Dr. Melanie Kuhn about fluency instruction: what fluency is, what research says makes the biggest difference in supporting readers’ fluency, her FORI intervention approach, and more.

Jennifer Serravallo interviews Dr. Elfreida (Freddy) Hiebert, creator of textproject.org, author of a new book about supporting vocabulary development, and longtime researcher of many topics on the teaching of reading.

A full transcript of episode 4 of the To the Classroom Podcast. Jennifer Serravallo interviews Dr. Peter Afflerbach to discuss skills, strategies, and teaching readers (not just reading).

Jennifer Serravallo interviews Dr. Daniel Wilingham, author of Outsmart Your Brain and other books. They discuss reading engagement, writing about reading and note taking, as well as strategies to support students with reading complex texts.

Today I welcome Dr. Maryanne Wolf for a conversation about the incredible reading brain: what happens in neural circuitry when we are reading words accurately, the many different ways to read, and her important thoughts on how to cultivate true reading engagement in children—and in ourselves. Later, I’m joined by my colleagues Gina Dignon, Molly Wood, and Lea Mercantini-Leibowitz, to talk about implications for the classroom.

Today’s guest is Dr. Kelly Cartwright. We’ll talk about her invaluable work around executive skills and reading, and the ways that executive skills undergird reading engagement and comprehension. We’ll also discuss her 2021 paper with Dr. Nell Duke titled “The Science of Reading Progresses” about The Active View of Reading framework, which incorporates current research on executive skills and explains critical “bridging processes” connecting word reading and language comprehension, which are critical for successful reading. Later, I’m joined by my colleagues Darren Victory and Lainie Powell for a conversation about practical takeaways.