Inclusive Literacy Strategies with Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan
The Be Podcast Network, an organization of more than four dozen engaging shows dedicated to education, and Reading Is Fundamental are partnering during National Literacy Month to share high-impact conversations about literacy with more than 40 unique episodes featuring conversations about the state of children’s literacy nationwide, best practices for reading instruction and engagement, strategies to foster the joy of reading in school and at home, and much more.
In this episode, Jethro Jones welcomes Dr. Karen Dudek-Brannan, host of the Defacto Leaders podcast. They discuss the role of related service providers in literacy, avoiding black-and-white thinking in educational interventions, and the multifaceted nature of vocabulary and comprehension in literacy development. Dr. Dudek-Brannan emphasizes the importance of structured service delivery planning and shares insights from her research on vocabulary, syntax, and their impacts on reading and writing comprehension.
- Getting everyone on the same page from different service providers.
- We’re not ignoring your discipline!
- Service delivery planning vs. lesson planning.
- Having a lot of experiences is what kids need to build vocabulary
- Need to have about 90-95% of vocabulary
- Phonics are essential, but if you don’t give them that explicit instruction, it becomes very difficult.
- Biologically primary and biologically secondary - we are wired to speak
- Fluency is one way to measure automaticity.
- Syntax Queen - metacognition and vocabulary.
- Content and structure.
- Sentence Structure