The Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy

In this podcast, Sharon Callen explains: What habits and behaviours of readers are Why are they important? How do we know which are the most useful habits and behaviours? How do we get them going in the classroom? How we develop the ‘three selves’ as a reader - self-directed, self-motivated, self-regulated Learning about what good readers do makes reading accessible to every child, every day. GOOD...

Sharon covers a range of literacy learning insights and strategies, including: "How do I engage every child in literacy learning?" With literacy learning, what do teachers want? They want their kids to be engaged. They want to cater for all abilities and motivations. Our approaches to literacy learning It's not about a blanket program that works for all. Not every child is the same. Some approache...

In this introductory episode, Sharon Callen introduces herself and gives you a taste of what the show is all about - giving tools and techniques to really help teachers in their classrooms (and they work for all students).  Sharon also touches on some key questions that teachers are asking, including:  How do we get all students to be engaged in literacy? How do we know the tools we choose are wor...