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Bonus Episode: Reading Assessment Done Right with Dr. Stephanie Stollar and Kate Winn
Jan 2, 2026
42m 18s
S4 E10: Expert Tips for Your Best School Year Yet!
Sep 1, 2025
37m 55s
S4 E9: Attention, Memory and Learning with Blake Harvard
Aug 25, 2025
57m 48s
S4 E8: Reading Interventions for Older Students with the NNDSB Team
Aug 18, 2025
49m 36s
S4 E7: Demystifying DLD with Dr. Tiffany Hogan
Aug 11, 2025
36m 03s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/2/26 |  Bonus Episode: Reading Assessment Done Right with Dr. Stephanie Stollar and Kate Winn✨ | reading assessmenteducation+3 | Dr. Stephanie StollarKate Winn | International Dyslexia Association OntarioReading Assessment Done Right+1 | — | reading assessmenteducation+4 | — | 42m 18s | |
| 9/1/25 | S4 E10: Expert Tips for Your Best School Year Yet!✨ | expert tipsschool year+4 | Dr. Renata ArchieDr. Sonia Cabell+7 | Reading Road TripSeason 1, Episode 6+3 | — | school yearexpert tips+4 | — | 37m 55s | |
| 8/25/25 |  S4 E9: Attention, Memory and Learning with Blake Harvard✨ | attentionmemory+3 | Blake Harvard | Do I Have Your Attention? Understanding Memory Constraints and Maximizing LearningMétis Christmas Mittens+2 | — | attentionmemory constraints+3 | — | 57m 48s | |
| 8/18/25 |  S4 E8: Reading Interventions for Older Students with the NNDSB Team✨ | reading interventionsstructured literacy+3 | Lisa RogersCourtney Berger+1 | REWARDS programNear North District School Board+3 | — | reading outcomesintermediate students+3 | — | 49m 36s | |
| 8/11/25 |  S4 E7: Demystifying DLD with Dr. Tiffany Hogan✨ | Developmental Language Disorderdyslexia+4 | Dr. Tiffany Hogan | PELLanguageScreen+5 | — | DLDdyslexia+5 | — | 36m 03s | |
| 8/4/25 |  S4 E6: Unpacking the SSSR Conference with Kate & Una✨ | conference highlightsstructured literacy+3 | Dr. Una Malcolm | Society for the Scientific Study of ReadingReading Road Trip+4 | CalgaryBanff | SSSR Conferencestructured literacy tips+3 | — | 35m 58s | |
| 7/28/25 |  S4 E5: The Lowdown on Decodable Text with Lee-Ann Lear✨ | decodable textstructured literacy+4 | Lee-Ann Lear | SyllaSenseThe Reading League+3 | — | decodable booksstructured literacy+4 | — | 56m 32s | |
| 7/21/25 |  S4 E4: Implementation Science with Dr. Katlynn Dahl-Leonard✨ | implementation scienceliteracy research+3 | Dr. Katlynn Dahl-Leonard | If You Were HereExploring the feasibility of implementing the SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing intervention+3 | — | implementation scienceliteracy+3 | — | 35m 16s | |
| 7/14/25 |  S4 E3: Scaffolding Complex Text with Dr. Sarah Lupo✨ | adolescent literacyscaffolding instruction+3 | Dr. Sarah Lupo | Tackling Tough TextsOn the Trapline+1 | — | scaffoldingadolescent readers+3 | — | 41m 00s | |
| 7/7/25 |  S4 E2: Inferences in the Early Years with Dr. Jen O'Sullivan✨ | inferenceearly childhood education+3 | Dr. Jen O’Sullivan | RAND Reading Study GroupThe Game | — | inferencesearly years+5 | — | 48m 49s | |
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| 6/30/25 |  S4 E1: thinkSRSD 101 with Dr. Leslie Laud | Buckle up - it's the Season 4 premiere of Reading Road Trip! Host Kate Winn kicks off the new season with Dr. Leslie Laud of thinkSRSD for a lively and practical conversation about transforming writing instruction. From kindergarten to high school, discover how this evidence-based approach is scaling across classrooms, building confidence, reducing teacher workload, and aligning beautifully with Canadian curricula. Links Mentioned in this Episode: Cedar School Decodables by Strong Nations Publishing thinkSRSD CommonLit ONlit.org thinkSRSD resources: Getting Started with thinkSRSD and Grade 3 thinkSRSD-inspired POWeR Cycles thinkSRSD Facebook Group thinkSRSD Canadian Facebook Group | — | ||||||
| 6/12/25 |  Season 4 Coming June 30! | Buckle up - Reading Road Trip is back for a fourth season! Join classroom teacher Kate Winn for a jam-packed season featuring fabulous guests. From researchers and authors to educators and practitioners, they're all sharing practical ideas that can be implemented now in your class, school, board or district! | — | ||||||
| 1/11/25 |  Surprise! Special Bonus Episode: Kate & Una Share Road Bumps and Refuels | For this surprise bonus episode, buckle up and join Kate Winn and Una Malcolm for a candid conversation about all things reading! Kate and Una share their "road bumps" and "refuels" along the road to reading for all. Stay tuned for Season 4 of Reading Road Trip this summer where we'll bring another carload of fabulous guests along for the ride. Keen to explore some of the resources Kate and Una mentioned in the episode? Kate's UFLI in Ontario Kindergarten document, co-authored with Dr. Holly Lane and Dr. Valentina Contesse Season 3 Episode 1 of Reading Road Trip featured Dr. Anita Archer and Dr. Sonia Cabell SISEP and NIRN host the Active Implementation Formula Framework Modules IDA's Perspectives on Language and Literacy has an issue focused on implementation Dr. Stephanie Stollar has an active Facebook page and leads the Reading Science Academy ONlit's Screening: The Reel Deal is a series of short videos addressing common questions about early reading screening Dr. Diana Burchell was a guest on Season 1 Episode 9, and Dr. Steve Graham joined us for Episode 9 of Season 2 Mount St. Joseph University offers access to their library database through the Center for Reading Science membership program Ontario teachers - the wonderful Jenni vanRees made this brief video showing how to navigate the OCT Library | — | ||||||
| 9/2/24 |  S3 E10: The Science of Learning with Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden | Season 3 wraps up with a jam-packed episode featuring Dr. Amanda VanDerHeyden. Kate and Amanda have a wide-ranging conversation about the science of learning and human behaviour - how do children learn new things? From the instructional hierarchy to incremental rehearsal, don't miss this fabulous episode! Show Notes: Curious about Amanda's insights into Kindergarten math instruction? Take a peek at the links she shared: Skills for screening, by grade level and time of year Kindergarten classwide intervention for making a quantity with numbers to 10: Paired partner practice Independent practice Teacher-directed whole-class error correction Tier 2 intervention - guided practice for finding a missing number | — | ||||||
| 8/26/24 |  S3 E9: Supporting Gifted and Advanced Readers with Dr. Amanda Nickerson | This week Kate is joined by Dr. Amanda Nickerson for a candid conversation about supporting gifted and highly advanced readers. Don't miss this episode that highlights the value of advanced decoding and spelling instruction for skilled readers! | — | ||||||
| 8/19/24 |  S3 E8: Higher Education & Systems-Level Literacy with Dr. Andrea Fraser | Dr. Andrea Fraser joins Kate to chat about her systems change journey: first in a board central team role, shifting her district's literacy instruction to structured literacy, and then preparing preservice teachers to teach with a structured literacy approach. Tune in to hear her insights on bridging the gap between research and practice at the district level and in higher education! The Basics of Decoding and Spelling Instruction is a low-cost, asynchronous online course offered by IDA Ontario. Students in Canadian education, EA, or SLP programs, as well as educators working in First Nation schools, can receive free access here. IDA Ontario partners with Dyslexia Canada to develop ONlit.org, a free website designed to support educators with the revised Ontario Language curriculum. Don't miss the most recent resource - a free embedded picture mnemonic set! | — | ||||||
| 8/12/24 |  S3 E7: Dyslexia - Remediation & Comorbid Disorders with Dr. Marc Joanisse | Kate welcomes Dr. Marc Joanisse for a discussion about the neurobiology of dyslexia and other comorbid disorders, including ADHD and DLD. Dr Marc Joanisse is a professor at the University of Western Ontario in the Department of Psychology and the Western Institute for Neuroscience. His research examines the cognitive and brain basis of reading dyslexia and developmental language disability in children, as well as typical reading and language and development. His research team at the Language Reading and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab uses a multimodal approach, including eye tracking, EEG and MRI. His research in dyslexia focuses on better understanding the links between poor reading and spoken language and phonology, and the comorbidities of dyslexia with other kinds of learning disorders like DLD and ADHD. Stay up to date on research and upcoming studies from Marc's lab:Language, Reading and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Facebook page and website | — | ||||||
| 8/5/24 |  S3 E6 Reading Beyond the Early Years with Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer | Curious about evidence-based instruction for older readers? This week, Kate welcomes Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer to discuss strategies for helping older readers decode big words and tackle complex texts, focusing on syntactic features like connectives and anaphora to improve text comprehension. Heidi Anne is the author of several great books, including Big Words for Young Readers: Teaching Kids in Grades K to 5 to Decode - and Understand - Words with Multiple Syllables and Morphemes, and Teaching Skills for Complex Text: Deepening Close Reading in the Classroom. Kate and Heidi Anne also discussed a new article, Time in Text: Differentiating Instruction for Intermediate Students Struggling with Word Recognition. Find Heidi Anne on twitter at @haemesmer. | — | ||||||
| 7/29/24 |  S3 E5 Literacy and Multilingual Learners with Dr. Claude Goldenberg | Dr. Claude Goldenberg joins us this week. Don't miss this engaging conversation about reading instruction for multilingual students - and keep listening to the end to learn about Claude's real-life road trips inspired by a John Steinbeck book! Claude is the Nomelini and Olivier professor of education emeritus at Stanford University. A native of Argentina, his areas of research and publication centred on promoting academic achievement among language minority students, particularly those from Spanish-speaking backgrounds. In the episode, Claude mentioned his work on the National Literacy Panel, an article in Reading Research Quarterly, and his own road trip adventures inspired by John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley: April to May 2023 September to October 2021 May to June 2019 October 2018 | — | ||||||
| 7/22/24 |  S3 E4: Supporting Reading Comprehension with Meredith & David Liben | Kate welcomes Meredith and David Liben for a candid conversation on reading comprehension. The Libens walk through effective instruction to help students understand what they read - from close reading to structured journals, they share practical tips to support comprehension! The Libens are the authors of Know Better Do Better: Teaching the Foundations So Every Child Can Read, and the newly released Know Better, Do Better: Comprehension: Fueling the Reading Brain With Knowledge, Vocabulary, and Rich Language. Kate mentions the Matthew effect, a phenomenon coined by Dr. Keith Stanovich where good readers enjoy reading, read more, and develop stronger reading skills. Struggling readers avoid reading, making the gap between skilled and weak readers widen over time. Access this influential paper here. The Read Aloud Project, mentioned by David, is a repository of lesson plans for rich read alouds of complex books. | — | ||||||
| 7/15/24 |  S3 E3: Raising Readers From Birth with Maya Payne Smart | Join us this week for a chat with parent educator Maya Payne Smart. Kate and Maya walk through clear, actionable steps to empower parents to support their child's language and literacy development. Maya is the author of Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six. It is excellent - well-researched, clear, and parent-friendly - and even a great read for teachers, too! Eager to learn more? Maya's website is a treasure trove of resources for parents and educators. From book recommendations to tips to build language and literacy, don't miss it. Maya recommended the picture books The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read and An Inconvenient Alphabet: Ben Franklin & Noah Webster's Spelling Revolution. | — | ||||||
| 7/8/24 |  S3 E2: Reading Science Surprises with Anna Geiger | This week, Kate welcomes fellow podcaster Anna Geiger from The Measured Mom. As two teachers who have shifted from balanced literacy to structured literacy, this episode is filled with candid discussion as Kate and Anna highlight the biggest surprises they encountered along the way! Anna is the CEO of The Measured Mom, host of Triple R Teaching, and the author of the soon-to-be released book, Reach All Readers: Using the Science of Reading to Transform Your Literacy Instruction. Show Notes: Emily Hanford's reporting, including her article At a Loss for Words, was key to Anna's structured literacy journey. Catch Emily's season 2 episode of Reading Road Trip, too! Dr. Mark Seidenberg's book, Language at the Speed of Sight, provides comprehensive insight into how students learn to read, challenging instructional practices that aren't aligned with this research Ready for the tables to be turned? Anna interviewed Kate on Triple R Teaching with an episode focusing on structured literacy in kindergarten | — | ||||||
| 7/1/24 |  S3 E1: Live with Dr. Anita Archer & Dr. Sonia Cabell! | Season 3 of Reading Road Trip kicks off with a candid conversation between literacy greats: Dr. Anita Archer and Dr. Sonia Cabell. Anita and Sonia recorded this episode at the 2024 Literacy & Learning Conference. Their conversation is both thoughtful and lighthearted - we hope you will enjoy! Show Notes: Sonia is a co-author of the new book Strive-for-Five Conversations: A Framework That Gets Kids Talking to Accelerate Their Language Comprehension and Literacy Anita is a co-author of the legendary text Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching All About Words: Increasing Vocabulary in the Common Core Classroom by Tanya Wright and Susan Neuman is a book both Sonia and Anita discussed Anita mentioned the research on Direct Instruction. This is summarized in the book All Students Can Succeed: A Half Century of Research on the Effectiveness of Direct Instruction Kate brought up a document Anita wrote on scaffolding reading comprehension Check out Kate's new home office setup - complete with a set of Archerisms! | — | ||||||
| 6/14/24 | Season 3 Coming July 1! | Buckle up - Reading Road Trip is back for a third season! Join classroom teacher Kate Winn for a jam-packed season featuring fabulous guests. From researchers and authors to educators and advocates, they're all sharing practical ideas that can be implemented now in your class, school, board or district! | — | ||||||
| 3/4/24 |  S2 E10: Reading Science: What Teachers Really NEED To Know with Dr. Jennifer Buckingham | Season 2 of Reading Road Trip closes out with a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Buckingham. Kate and Jennifer dig into reading science - what do teachers really need to know? From syllable types to comprehension strategies, linguistic terms to cognitive science, this episode distinguishes between what is a "need to know" and what is "nice to know." Dr. Jennifer Buckingham is the director of strategy and senior research fellow at MultiLit, and is the founder and director of the Five from Five Literacy Project. Show Notes: Jennifer's research report, Need to Know or Nice to Know, explores many of the topics discussed in the episode Kate also mentioned Jennifer's blog Don't Discard Comprehension Strategies Jennifer brought up Dr. Daniel Willingham's blog, Can Children be Taught to Comprehend What They Read? | — | ||||||
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