Teachers, instructional coaches, and researchers join forces to bring Talk to Read to classrooms.
What is Talk to Read Collaborative
Talk to Read Collaborative is a literacy recovery program in which teachers, instructional coaches, and researchers work together to tailor Talk to Read strategies for second-grade students attending high-poverty, rural schools where post-pandemic literacy skills have been affected. This professional learning program helps teachers use various strategies to elicit and scaffold students' own background and vocabulary to contextualize reading skills and embed current state learning standards across the curriculum, including current reading programs. Teachers will also learn ways to use technology, especially dictation, to improve sight word vocabulary, reading comprehension, and classroom management.
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Key Benefits of Talk to Read:
Engage Your Disengaged Students: Utilize familiar literary structures. Every student learns how to create their own version using their own voice and language.
Add Relevance to Reading Skills: Connect student voice and experience which makes literacy both meaningful and impactful for every learner.
Improve Sight Word Vocabulary Acquisition: Implement research and field-tested literacy approaches that resonate with each unique second-grader, ensuring every child is using their own experiences to increase their sight-word vocabulary.
Technology Use to Mitigate Literacy Barriers: Harness the power of dictation technology to help students interact with text and express their ideas.
High-Quality Professional Learning: Participate in high-quality professional learning to strengthen and add to their repertoire of literacy strategies and approaches to improve student learning.
Funded by the US Dept. of Education, this $4 million dollar grant serves high-needs schools over five years, 2021-2026. Teachers participate for one year in professional learning developed by the eMINTS National Center and the University of Missouri - College of Education and Human Development. This program will serve 46 schools, 96 teachers, and over 1900 students.