The weekly Lunch & Lit aims to bridge the research to practice divide by bringing scientists and practitioners together to discuss their work.
The Lunch & Lit 2023-24 season, including recordings and presentations, is archived here. 2023-24 presenters include:
Lunch & Lit sessions are on Fridays, beginning at 12:45 pm ET/ 11:45 CT/ 9:45 PT. They run for 90 minutes, including a presentation (recorded and posted to this page) and discussion (for Lunch & Lit participants only). If you are interested in participating in the Lunch & Lit, send us an email (see About Us), and please include a note about yourself.
February 7, 2025
Laura Steacy
Set for Variability and Word Reading: What We Know and What We’re Still Trying to Figure Out
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
Steacy, L.M., Edwards, A.A., Rigobon, V.M., Gutiérrez, N., Marencin, N.C., Siegelman, N., Himelhoch, A.C., Himelhoch, C., Rueckl, J. and Compton, D.L. (2023), Set for Variability as a Critical Predictor of Word Reading: Potential Implications for Early Identification and Treatment of Dyslexia. Read Res Q, 58: 254-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.475
Steacy, L. M., Wade-Woolley, L., Rueckl, J. G., Pugh, K. R., Elliott, J. D., & Compton, D. L. (2019). The role of set for variability in irregular word reading: Word and child predictors in typically developing readers and students at-risk for reading disabilities. Scientific Studies of Reading, 23(6), 523–532. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2019.1620749
January 31, 2025
Language Sample Analysis: Implementation Across the Tiers
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
Murphy, K., Springle, A., Sultani, M., & Mcilraith, A. (2022) ,Predicting Language Performance From Narrative Language Samples, Language And Reading Research Consortium (LARRC).
January 17, 2025
Jessica Hamman & Laura Garroway Myers
Guiding Shifts Toward a Stuctured Literacy Approach in a Northern CA School District
Session Recording
Presentation:
January 10, 2025
Jan Hasbrouck & Nancy Young
Climbing the Ladder of Reading & Writing: Meeting the Needs of All Learners
Session Recording
Recommended Resources:
Read more about The Ladder of Reading & Writing infographic and download a copy here:
https://nancyyoung.ca/the-ladder-of-reading-writing/
Request a preview copy of Chapter 2: A Closer Look from the publisher here:
https://info.benchmarkeducation.com/climbing-ladder-of-reading-and-writing-request-virtual-samples
December 13 and 20, 2024
Charles Haynes, MaryKate DeSantis & Susan Lambrecht Smith
Structured Writing Instruction: Part 1 . Word & Sentence Strategies
Session Recording
Structured Writing Instruction: Part 2 . Micro-Discourse & Discourse Strategies
Session Recording
Recommended Resources:
Charles W. Haynes, Susan Lambrecht Smith, and Leslie Laud (2019). Structured Literacy Approaches for Teaching Written Expression. Perspectives on Language and Literacy. International Dyslexia Association.
December 6, 2024
Sarah Powell
Literacy and Mathematics
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
SPIRAL (Specialized Intervention to Reach All Learners) Resources
Instructional Routines for Mathematics Interventions (Texas SPED Support)
Project STAIR (Supporting Teaching of Algebra: Individual Readiness) Resources
Intensive Intervention in Mathematics Training Course (National Center on Intensive Intervention at the American Institutes for Research)
Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades (IES Practice Guide, What Works Clearinghouse)
Maths Practices You Can Count On: A Guide to Five Research-Validated Practices in Mathematics by Sarah R. Powell, Sarah G. King, and Sarah A. Benz (Centre for Independent Studies)
Myths That Undermine Math Teaching by Sarah R. Powell, Elizabeth M. Hughes, and Corey Peltier (Centre for Independent Studies)
10 Key Mathematics Practices for All Elementary Schools (Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk)
10 Key Mathematics Practices for All Middle and High Schools (Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk)
Elizabeth M. Hughes, Sarah R. Powell, and Elizabeth A. Stevens (2016). Supporting Clear and Concise Mathematics Language Mathematics: Instead of That, Say This. Teaching Exceptional Children, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 7–17.
November 22 2024
Nancy Hennessy & Julia Salamone
Comprehension: The Challenges of Implementing Effective Instruction
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity Book (Hennessy & Salamone, 2024)
November 15, 2024
Nadine Gaab
Moving from a reactive to a proactive model in education: How a neurobiological framework of reading development can inform educational practice and policy
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
Gaab, N., & Duggan, N. (In press). Leveraging Brain Science for Impactful Advocacy and Policymaking: The Synergistic Partnership between Developmental Cognitive Neuroscientists and a Parent-Led Grassroots Movement to Drive Dyslexia Prevention Policy and Legislation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Turesky TK, Escalante E, Loh M, Gaab N. (2024). Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship to literacy development. bioRxiv [Preprint].
November 8, 2024
Pati Montgomery
It’s Possible. A Leadership Plan for Implementing Quality Reading Instruction and Ensuring Literacy for All.
Session Recording
Recommended Resources:
It’s Possible!: A Leadership Plan for Implementing Quality Reading Instruction and Ensuring Literacy for All (Increase reading proficiency for all students.) (Montgomery & Hanlin, 2024)
November 1, 2024
Tiffany Hogan
Advocating for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD): Where we’ve been and where we want to go
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
What’s Language Got to Do With It? Speech-Language Pathology Contributions to the
Science of Reading (Hogan, 2022)
Common but Hidden: A spotlight on Developmental Language Disorder (Hogan & Hancock, 2022)
If We Don’t Look, We Won’t See: Measuring Language Development to Inform Literacy Instruction (Adlof & Hogan, 2019)
Dldandme.org (Hogan, co-founder, 2018)
SeeHearSpeak Podcast (Hogan, hosted since 2018)
October 11, 2024
Dawn Brookhart & Daryl Michel
Instructional Leadership Through Student-Focused Coaching: Creating the Conditions for System Success
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
Student-Focused Coaching: The Instructional Coach’s Guide to Supporting Student Success Through Teacher Collaboration by Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D. and Daryl Michel, Ph.D.
October 4, 2024
Dan Reynolds
Fair or Foul? Interrogating the Role Baseball Knowledge in Studies of Knowledge and Comprehension and the Implications for a Translational Science of Reading Comprehension
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
Watch this 2.5 minute video digest of a recent open-access Reading Research Quarterly article by myself and Dr. Courtney Hattan about this topic
Skim this this article and this article. (They’re open access, so feel free to share widely!)
September 27, 2024
Elsa Cardenas-Hagan, Mark Anderson & Josette Claudio
NYC Reads: Implementation of Structured Literacy for Multilingual Learners
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
Lentz, A., Desimone, L.M., Stornaiuolo, A., Pak, K., Flores, N., Nichols, T.P., Polikoff, M., and Porter, A. (2024). Changes That Stick. Kappan.
Stornaiuolo, A., Desimone, L.M., Polikoff, M., Lentz, A., Pak, K., Flores, N., Nichols, T.P., and Porter, A. (2023). “The Good Struggle” of Flexible Specificity: Districts Balancing Specific Guidance With Autonomy to Support Standards-Based Instruction. American Educational Research Journal.
September 20, 2024
Margie Gillis, Christine Cohen & Kristen Troester
What We’ve Learned In Nearly Twenty-five Years of Coaching
Session Recording
Presentation:
Recommended Resources:
Brady, S., Gillis, M., Smith, T., Lavalette, M., Liss-Bronstein, L., Lowe, E., … & Wilder, T. D. (2009). First grade teachers’ knowledge of phonological awareness and code concepts: Examining gains from an intensive form of professional development and corresponding teacher attitudes. Reading and writing, 22, 425-455.
10 Key Policies and Practices for Instructional Coaching (2023). The University of Texas at Austin/The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk.
September 13, 2024
Claude Goldenberg
What to do about misinformation and ill-informed influencers in discussions of reading policies and practices?
Recommended Resources:
Russo, A. (2024, July). English Learners and the Science of Reading (An Interview with Claude Goldenberg). Kappan.
Mora, J., Flores B., and Diaz, E. (2024, August). Response to English Learners and the Science of Reading. Kappan.
Goldenberg, C. (2024, August). English Learners, Literacy Reform, and the Role of Journalism. Kappan.
Goldenberg, C. (2024, May). To improve how California students read, we must get past confusion and misinformation. EdSource.
Goldenberg, C. (2023, May). Research must guide how we teach English learners to read. EdSource.
Dehaene, S. (2024, April). Response to California Association of Bilingual Educators Webinar, Debunking SoR Neuroscience Claims. Reading League.
September 6, 2024
Jane Ashby
Discussion and Q&A
A follow-up to last season’s: Let’s see what this sentence tells us. The cognitive journey from print to meaning when reading text as revealed by eye movements.
