Press & Media
Explore my featured presentations, podcasts, and publications
Passionate about transforming literacy instruction, I am committed to ensuring all students have the foundation to become skilled readers and spellers from their earliest days in school. My vision is to disrupt the reading failure status quo through evidence validated instruction so that far more students are on the path to becoming skilled readers and spellers from the very first day of Kindergarten.
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Below are some of the media features and interviews I have given on the subject of Speech-First Literacy and its many benefits to students of all ages.
If you would like to feature me on your podcast, blog, YouTube channel, or magazine, let's connect!
Dystinct Magazine
Issue 13: "Will the Real Sight Word Please Stand Up?"
by Svetlana Cvetkovic
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Dr Svetlana Cvetkovic clarifies the confusion around the term "sight word", explains how sight vocabularies develop, and sheds light on both optimal and nonoptimal instructional practices from a Structured Linguistic Literacy perspective.
Melissa & Lori Love Literacy ™
Episode 189: Kindergartners Can Read CVC Words by November: Find Out How!
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Julie VanLier and Dr. Svetlana Cvetkovic discuss their experiences and successes teaching phonics. They both highlight the importance of a speech-to-print approach and the impact it has had on their students' reading and spelling abilities. The conversation also delves into the principles of speech to print and the scope and sequence of instruction. They emphasize the importance of interleaving, where concepts are revisited over time. The integration of phonics into all aspects of reading and writing is key, as well as the use of authentic text.
Overall, their approach focuses on engagement, flexibility, and integration to ensure student success in literacy.
Flight Club with Felena Hanson™
​​In this 30 minute podcast, Felena and Svetlana discuss the groundbreaking investigative journalism work of Emily Hanford's "Sold a Story" that digs into the how and why so many of our nation's children are falling through the literacy cracks.
Over 40 million American adults today cannot read past a 4th grade level and are considered subliterate. Svetlana shares her experiences as a private literacy remediation/interventionist with students of all ages and their accelerated progress in reading and spelling in as little as 12 hours of instructional time.
The interview closes with ideas around spreading this knowledge into classrooms so that no child has to endure years of trauma around learning to read.
SoR-What I Should Have Learned in College
Sight Words, How Are They Defined, How Should We Teach Them, Are There Too Many Ways
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Learn how sight words are learned with optimal and nonoptimal practices around sight word instruction. Dr. Cvetkovic will also be sharing links to several free resources to help teachers streamline their time around "sight word" learning.
