A guide to integrating knowledge building into your classroom, with Jackie Relyea, Ph.D.
In this special episode of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Susan Lambert is joined by Jackie Relyea, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at North Carolina State University, who鈥檒l give you a comprehensive guide to integrating background knowledge into your teaching as you create a content-rich classroom. Jackie offers insights into why time-tested classroom staples such as read-alouds and word walls are effective tools for building background knowledge … and how to make them even better. She also digs into why vocabulary is just one facet of conceptual knowledge and what the research says about background knowledge for multilingual learners.
Meet our guest(s):
Jackie Relyea, Ph.D.
Jackie Eunjung Relyea, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education in the College of Education at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on understanding the uniqueness of and variations in reading development, as well as developing and evaluating the efficacy of literacy instructional practices aimed at improving learning opportunities for multilingual students. Her work has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the American Educational Research Association-National Science Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. She currently serves as an Editorial Fellow for the Journal of Educational Psychology. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Meet our host, Susan Lambert
Susan Lambert is Chief Academic Officer, Literacy, at 含羞草视频, and host of Science of Reading: The Podcast. Throughout her career, she has focused on creating high-quality learning environments using evidence-based practices. Lambert is a mom of four, a grandma of four, a world traveler, and a collector of stories.
As the host of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Lambert explores the increasing body of scientific research around how reading is best taught. As a former classroom teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer, Lambert is dedicated to turning theory into best practices that educators can put right to use in the classroom, and to showcasing national models of reading instruction excellence.
