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From Balanced to Structured Literacy: A conversation with Margaret Goldberg

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TRT Podcast #86: A Powerful, Respective Voice for Change: A conversation with Margaret Goldberg

As a former balanced literacy teacher, Margaret Goldberg is a leader in the movement to help ALL students become successful readers. Her kind and respectful manner open the door wide open. I’m sure you’ll love hearing from her as much I enjoyed this interview!

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Full episode transcript

Read Margaret’s blog posts here

  • What should we do when a reader stumbles on a word?
  • We can’t teach love, but we can teach reading
  • The drudgery (and beauty) of decodable texts
  • Teachers won’t embrace research until it embraces them

Videos with Margaret Goldberg

  • What skilled reading really is
  • How this reading interventionist shifted to evidence-based reading instruction
  • Early literacy with Margaret Goldberg
  • What to do when a reader stumbles on a word

Related resources

  • The Big Dippers course
  • Whole-Language High Jinks, by Louisa Moats
  • At a Loss for Words, by Emily Hanford

 

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Filed Under: Podcast, General, Science of reading, Structured literacy Tagged With: Pre-K, first grade, second grade, third grade, kindergarten

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  1. Kathleen

    September 4, 2023 at 2:35 pm

    Hello! First of all, I would like to say thank you for your fabulous resources. I teach at a 100% free lunch school where most students are more than two years behind. We just adopted the Open Court reading program. It’s great for reading, and phonics, but lacks in the spelling instruction. Last year I used words their way for 30 minutes daily with 3 to 4 groups. Students made good progress. I read on your website that you do not think WTW has enough explicit instruction. It also said that you were going to come out with a new series on spelling instruction during 2023. Haa this series been written? Would you please point me to a science of reading- friendly resource so that I can make better informed decisions? Thank you!

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    • Anna Geiger

      September 4, 2023 at 7:14 pm

      Hi Kathleen!
      A lot of my 2023 projects were put on the back burner because I was offered a book deal and am still working on finishing that up to send to my editor. But as soon as that’s taken care of, this is one of my top projects! I expect to publish it in early 2024.

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