Welcome to our National Literacy Month series of podcasts, presented in partnership between the Be Podcast Network and Reading Is Fundamental. The month of September may be done, but we’re continuing the series with more conversations this fall.

Today, Karen Gazith joins the show. Karen received her PhD in Education and Counselling Psychology from McGill University and has taught at McGill for over two decades. She also serves as the Graduate Program Director of the Certificate in Inclusive Education in the same department and as a liaison to the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill.

Karen’s book is The Power of Effective Reading Instruction: How Neuroscience Informs Instruction Across All Grades and Disciplines.

We discuss:

• Teaching students to read is the most essential duty of schools
• Reading is everyone’s business
• What should change in pre-service and inservice learning?
• What neuroscience research says about how children learn to read
• The Big 5: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension
• Reading instruction across content areas

Find The Power of Effective Reading Instruction from Solution Tree or wherever you get your books. Learn more about Karen’s work: https://teachingmeanslearning.com.

Listen to more National Literacy Month podcasts at https://literacy.bepodcast.network.

Learn more about Reading Is Fundamental at www.rif.org

About the host

Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies, a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on Twitter @RossBRomano or LinkedIn