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Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Identifying Dominant Narratives

Learn how to use decoding assessments to teach phonics to K-2 students and get a free phonic decoding assessment tool.

This week on the podcast, Matt Glover and Carl Anderson talk about their new book.

The goal of our new book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, is to help you become really good at teaching writing.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: An Integrated Reading and Writing Approach

What necessary structural changes need to be made to support and nurture the mental well-being of teachers?

Beginning to use Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) is all about making sense of children’s thinking, listening to your students, and experimenting with your classroom practice.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Multilingual Learner Rights

This week on the podcast, Thomas Newkirk and Ralph Fletcher discuss Tom's new book Literacy's Democratic Roots.

By understanding and valuing each writing process stage, you can guide students from initial ideas to completed works. Because as writing mentors, our goal isn’t just to teach writing—but to inspire a love for it.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: The Essential Practice of Reading Aloud to Students

This week on the podcast, Kylene Beers joins to share what's new in the second edition of When Kids Can't Read.

In our forthcoming book, How to Become a Better Writing Teacher, we focus on the question of how to help teachers become good writing teachers.

Heinemann Podcast Commuter Series: Why Reading Joy Matters

The audiobook of The Literacy Studio: Redesigning the Workshop for Readers and Writers

This week on the podcast, we talk with Sue O'Connell about literature-based math practices and her upcoming event.

Learn to use decodable texts to plan effective small group work with this sample teaching sequence from Michael Rae-Grant.

As humans we have the great gift, the great evolutionary achievement, of speech and story. It’s what we do best—and all literacy instruction needs to honor and build on that gift.