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For over 30 years Teacher Created Materials has been creating research and standards-based resources for K-12 classrooms. As educators we realize the challenges teachers face with staying up to date on educational topics. Our podcasts are a great way for busy teachers to stay current. Each episode will inspire you and provide useful information you can take into your classroom. You can listen now, or download for later!
Current Episode:
| Title: | Episode 6 - Building Vocabulary |
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Nancy Padak, Rick Newton, and Evangeline Newton talk with Editorial Director Lori Kamola about using Greek and Latin word roots to build students’ vocabulary. These authors and researchers discuss how teaching Greek and Latin roots can dramatically increase a student's vocabulary, improve comprehension, raise test scores, and create a lifelong interest in word learning. 
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Previous Episodes:
| Title: | Episode 5 - Applying Differentiation Strategies |
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Presenter Dede Dodds brings her 20 plus years of classroom experience to this podcast to discuss the importance of differentiating curriculum. She gives practical ideas and examples to help you apply differentiation strategies in your classroom. |
| Title: | Episode 4 - Reader's Theater: The Fluency-Comprehension Connection |
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With simple step by step suggestions, and real world examples, Teacher Created Materials’ Editor-in-Chief, Sharon Coan explains the power of using Reader’s Theater in the classroom. |
| Title: | Episode 3 - Making and Writing Words and Building Vocabulary |
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Dr. Timothy Rasinski takes the familiar exercise of Making Words one step further to Making and Writing Words.
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| Title: | Episode 2 - Practice, Practice, Practice: The Value of Repeated Reading |
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In this episode Dr. Rasinski discusses the benefits of repeated reading, and gives examples of what types of texts are most effective in motivating students to practice and perform.
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| Title: | Episode 1 - Fluency 101: Accuracy, Automaticity, and Expression |
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In this episode Dr. Timothy Rasinski discusses the three major components of fluency. |
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Shell Education Podcasts
Shell Education is excited to present a new series of educational podcasts that feature renowned authors and experts discussing innovative approaches to teaching in the classroom. Covering various topics, all the podcasts in this series contain research- and standards-based content designed around best practices, and easy-to-implement formats. Tips and bonus handouts are teacher-friendly and included with every podcast!
Current Episodes:
| Title: | A Baker’s Dozen of Lessons Learned from the Teaching Trenches |
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Hear as Danny Brassell talks about the inspiration for his book, A Baker’s Dozen, and discusses strategies to motivate both students and parents. |
| Title: | Daily Math Stretches: Building Conceptual Understanding |
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Laney Sammons, author of Guided Math, explains what “math stretches” are and how they fit into the Guided Math framework. |
| Title: | Effecting Change: Intervention for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners |
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Listen as Almitra Berry discusses who culturally diverse learners are, why they need intervention that is specifically responsive, as well as strategies that are both culturally significant and instructionally impactful. |
| Title: | What’s Your Math Problem!?! Getting to the Heart of Teaching Problem Solving |
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Linda Gojak discusses what good problem solving looks like in the classroom as well as effective strategies for teaching problem solving to students. |
Previous Episodes:
| Title: | The Poet and the Professor: Poems for Building Reading Skills |
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Watch poet Brod Bagert's interview! As coauthor of the series, The Poet and the Professor: Poems for Building Reading Skills, he discusses the true essence of poetry, what makes his poetry so exciting, and his academically-powerful approach using poetry in the classroom. |
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Watch Brod Bagert perform his poems at www.ShellEducation.com/podcasts |
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| Title: | Professional Learning Communities |
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Listen and learn as Patrick Baccellieri discusses his experiences in promoting a school-wide learning community. Based on his book, Professional Learning Communities: Using Data in Decision Making to Improve Student Learning, this podcast will reveal how to reach your instructional goals through the power of collaboration. |
| Title: | Building Vocabulary |
| Summary: |
Nancy Padak, Rick Newton, and Evangeline Newton talk with Editorial Director Lori Kamola about using Greek and Latin word roots to build students' vocabulary. These authors and researchers discuss how teaching Greek and Latin roots can dramatically increase a student's vocabulary, improve comprehension, raise test scores, and create a lifelong interest in word learning. 
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| Title: | Guided Math |
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Listen to Laney Sammons, author of Guided Math, as she introduces the new concept of incorporating literacy strategies into mathematics instruction. |
| Title: | Teaching Idioms and Other English Expressions |
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Dr. Timothy Rasinski provides fun idiomatic vocabulary strategies highlighting the importance and use of idioms and other English expressions in the learning process. |
| Title: | Using Poems for Word Study |
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Dr. Timothy Rasinski provides fun reading strategies featuring poetry to teach the five essential areas of reading plus tips on developing fluency and comprehension. |
| Title: | Strategies for Assessing Comprehension |
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Editorial Director Lori Kamola provides strategies and tips on how best to assess comprehension-thinking skills. Plus, this podcast features a "live" demonstration of a young reader as she reads and is assessed. |
| Title: | Comprehension That Works: Taking Students Beyond Ordinary Understanding to Deep Comprehension |
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Dr. Danny Brassell challenges listeners to empower themselves and improve reading instruction with innovative strategies to build comprehension by taking students beyond ordinary understanding. |
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