Episode 19: Teaching Kids to Love Reading with Beth Gaskill

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Episode 19: Teaching Kids to Love Reading with Beth Gaskill of @bigcityreaders Join Rachael and Miss Beth as they talk all about our children learning to read! Hear some strategies and techniques for fostering literacy skills in kids and the importance of infusing fun into learning to read. You’ll learn about The science of reading (did you know it was a science!?), the evolving understanding of how children best learn to read, and how you can help be an advocate for your child. Rachael even shares about her experience as a public school teacher teaching reading for over 10 years as well as her oldest child's recent entry into the public school system. They also chat about Kindergarten "Redshirting," how to instill early literacy skills and a love for reading in our children, how to talk to our kids after school, plus so much more! Beth Gaskill, known by her community as Miss Beth, is trained in the science of reading, the Orton Gillingham approach and is a multi sensory literacy instructor and a former early childhood and elementary school teacher. She founded Big City Readers to create a space for families to come together, understand how to teach their kids in the unique ways they are wired to learn, not just how to teach reading, build community AND have fun. Big City Readers On Demand Video Courses for babies, toddlers + kids Beth’s Podcast: Play on Words Podcast we mentioned: Sold a Story Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Instagram (Show page) Tiktok (Rachael's tiktok account) Show Website (Transcripts available!) For more on biologically normal infant sleep and a holistic approach to getting more sleep, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow on instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.
0:13.1	I'm your host, Rachel Shepard Ota. And today I'm with Beth Gaskill, or better known as Miss Beth.
0:19.7	And I'm so excited to talk with you today. Let me just tell our
0:22.8	audience a little bit about Beth before we jump in. Beth is trained in the science of reading,
0:29.2	the Orton-Gillingham approach, and a multi-sensory literature. You are a multi-sensory literacy
0:34.5	instructor, a former early childhood and elementary school teacher.
0:39.0	You founded big city readers to create a space for families to come together and understand
0:43.5	how to teach their kids the unique ways that they are wired to learn and read, not just to teach
0:49.3	reading, but to build community and have fun. And I love that so much. I am a new follower of yours on Instagram.
0:55.6	I have a kindergartner. He just started like recently. And so I've been just loving your content.
1:01.5	And I am a former teacher as well, also trained in Norton Gillingham. I taught special ed elementary
1:07.3	for 10 years. So I feel like this is going to be a great conversation. And I'm just very
1:12.3	excited to nerd out with you on teaching and reading stuff. Thank you so much for being here.
1:17.0	Yay, me too. I did not know that you were Orton Gillingham train. Now we need more than half an hour.
1:21.6	I know. I know. How did how did kindergarten go the start? Oh my God. It's been shocking. Like I so I my followers from
1:32.5	Casey B Baby know about this whole saga. So I live in San Francisco where we have a lottery system for
1:37.8	public schools. So we felt very strongly that we wanted public school. Also like like, it's pretty much our only option because public, private schools here are 40 grand a year.
1:50.3	So we were definitely going to go public school route. And it's a lottery system here. So we had to tour all the different neighborhoods, all the different schools. We had to like rank all of our choices. It was very overwhelming. And my oldest is a pretty sensitive little guy. Luckily, and I do want
2:08.9	to hear your thoughts on this because I know you have a whole podcast dedicated to redshirting.
2:13.3	But here in California, it's kind of based on your birthday.
2:20.5	And so he did a TK year, which was huge for him.
2:22.5	He really needed that extra time.
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