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    Reading Teachers Lounge

    This is the Reading Teachers Lounge where listeners can eavesdrop on professional conversations between elementary reading teachers. We are passionate about literacy and strive to find strategies to reach all learners. Shannon and Mary are neighbors who realized that they were “literacy soul sisters” at a dinner in their Atlanta neighborhood. Once they started chatting about reading they haven’t really stopped. Come join the conversation.

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    Season 5 Finale: Ends & Beginnings May 18, 2023
    Show notes

    Shannon and Mary meet up to review how season 5 of the podcast has gone. They share some of the things they learned during the season and list some of their favorite episodes and guests. They also chat about the school year as it winds down, their upcoming summer plans, and what is in store for the podcast in Season 6. At the end of the episode, they're joined by Kelsey Sorenson from Wife Teacher Mommy to talk about the Educate and Rejuvenate event they're all participating in during June 2023.
    RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

    1. Season 5 Episode 4: the Schwa with Mindful Teacher Rachel
    2. Season 5 Episode 6: Balancing It All with Linda Rhyne
    3. Season 5 Episode 7: The Reading Brain with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg
    4. Season 5 Episode 8: Orthographic Mapping with Anna Geiger
    5. Season 5 Episode 9: the Simple View of Reading and Beyond with Dr. Janet Mort
    6. Season 5 Episode 10: Decodable Texts with Emily Gibbons
    7. Season 5 Episode 15: Practical Tips for Reading Teachers with Jamie Sears
    8. Season 5 Episode 17: Putting the Science of Reading Into Action
    9. Great E-books about Structured Shared Reading & Writing and other guides Regarding Dyslexia
    10. Get Literacy Support through our Patreon
    11. Educate & Rejuvenate June 27-28, 2023 <---This is the link for ALL the information and WHERE to sign up!
    12. Shannon's bundle of lesson plans for teaching syllables (You get this free if you upgrade to the Conference Platinum Pass!)


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    Putting the Science of Reading Into Action with Malia Hollowell from Playdough to Plato May 04, 2023
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    Shannon and Mary chat with Malia Hollowell (@Playdough2Plato) about her new book, Science of Reading In Action. They summarize the big ideas within the Science of Reading for listeners and share practical actions teachers and parents can take to ensure they're doing best practices for students that are backed by literacy research. After listening, you'll understand more about WHAT the SoR is, WHY it is important, and HOW to put it in action, no matter your literacy role.
    Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

    1. Science of Reading: Defining Guide from The Reading League
    2. White Paper-The Science of Reading (Zaner-Bloser)
    3. Timothy Shanahan: What is the Science of Reading? (Reading Rockets)
    4. our Season 4 Episode about the Science of Reading
    5. The Science of Reading in Action by Malia Hollowell *Amazon affiliate link*
    6. Malia's website: Playdough To Plato
    7. Connect with Malia on IG: @playdough2plato
    8. Facebook group: Science of Reading in Action



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    Teaching and Reaching Diverse Learners Apr 20, 2023
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    Shannon and Mary chat with Khadijah Abdullah, a public school teacher in their area, about how she balances the wide variety of reading abilities in her classroom. Khadijah shares about her trauma-informed teaching practices and how she uses visual literacy to provide learning scaffolds for her students.
    Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

    1. Teaching With Multiple Modalities
    2. 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
    3. Media Literacy
    4. Visual Learning
    5. Tips for Viewing Images in Picture Books
    6. Trauma Informed Teaching
    7. Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills *Amazon affiliate link*
    8. Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom: Comic Books, Film, Television and Picture Narratives (David Fulton Books) *Amazon affiliate link*
    9. Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing: Multimodal Literacy 5 - 11 (Published in association with the UKLA)
    10. Journey (Aaron Becker's Wordless Triology, 1) *Amazon affiliate link*
    11. Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole *Amazon affiliate link*
    12. Connect with Khadijah on Instagram @the_whole_heart_teacher


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    Practical Tips for Reading Teachers with guest Jamie Sears from Not So Wimpy Teacher Apr 06, 2023
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    Shannon and Mary chat with Jamie Sears from Not So Wimpy Teacher about how to get more done as a reading teacher in less time. Jamie shares practical tips for teachers from her newly published book titled How to Love Teaching Again. Listeners will walk away with ideas on how to save time in preparing lesson plans, routines for lesson structure, easy grading techniques, and ways to simplify reading groups. Check out this episode to find out how to make your jobs as reading teachers easier and more enjoyable!
    Episode Links for Resources:

    1. Jamie's book information and website
    2. How to Love Teaching Again by Jamie Sears *Amazon affiliate link*
    3. Reading Basics from Reading Rockets
    4. Classroom Management from Reading Rockets
    5. 5 Ways to Keep Reading Centers Running Smoothly (Chalk and Apples)
    6. How to Make Guided Reading Manageable (Scholastic)
    7. Launching Readers Workshop (The Curriculum Corner)
    8. Making Readers Workshop Work (ASCD)

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    Speaking and Listening Standards Mar 23, 2023
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    Shannon and Mary read over and discuss the Speaking and Listening standards in Reading to develop a deeper understanding of how and why these standards exist and help the students grow in literacy. They show how the standards develop in the depth of knowledge across the grade levels from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade. They also share ideas of ways to embed Speaking and Listening standards practice in classroom routines and project-based learning.
    Episode Links for Resources:

    1. Common Core Standards
    2. Reading Rockets: Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning
    3. Speaking and Listening standards Utah
    4. Elementary Nest: How to Fit in Daily Speaking and Listening Activities
    5. Education Week: Helping English-Learners Meet the Common Core's Speaking and Listening Standards
    6. The CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards...in 20 days or Less!
    7. The Forgotten Strand in ELA: Speaking and Listening
    8. 9 Big Ideas Within the Speaking and Listening Standards
    9. Let's Talk...About the Speaking and Listening Standards
    10. Listenwise: A tool to build listening comprehension
    11. Teaching the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards: Strategies and Digital Tools by Kristen Swanson *Amazon affiliate link*
    12. Teaching the Core Skills of Listening & Speaking (ASCD) by Erik Palmer *Amazon affiliate link*

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    Building Reading Fluency Mar 11, 2023
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    Shannon chats with Stephanie Summers from Pride Reading Program about the topic of helping students build their reading fluency. They talk about what skills go into a student's reading fluency. They share ways to work on fluency with readers. In their chat, they reference ideas from The Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Rasinski.
    Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

    1. What is fluency?
    2. Fluency methods
    3. Note from Timothy Raskinski
    4. The Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Raskinski *Amazon affiliate link*
    5. Reading Rockets: Reading Basics-Fluency
    6. Reading Rockets: Developing Fluent Readers
    7. Reading Plus-a reading fluency software
    8. The Measured Mom: How to Improve Reading Fluency
    9. FCRR Fluency Activities K & 1st Grade
    10. FCRR Fluency Activities 2nd & 3rd Grade
    11. FCRR Fluency Activities 4th & 5th Grade
    12. Google Docs Forced Copy of Shannon's created Weekly Fluency Rubric
    13. Pride Reading Program's Website
    14. Pride Reading Program on Facebook
    15. Pride Reading Program on Instagram

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    Building Vocabulary Feb 23, 2023
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    Shannon and Mary focus their conversation on how to build students' vocabularies. They share less effective methods used in the past and how they've evolved their vocabulary instruction to help students the most. In the chat, they reference ideas from Bringing Words to Life by Isabel Beck.
    Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

    1. How do we teach the Language Comprehension strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope?
    2. Word Building: 20 root words and 14 prefixes= 100,000 words (Dyslexia Associates)
    3. Academic Word Finder (AchievetheCore.org)
    4. Word Study that Sticks: Best Practices by Pamela Koutrakos *Amazon affiliate link*
    5. Llamophones by Janik Coat
    6. How to Teach Vocabulary for Reading Comprehension
    7. Routine for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
    8. Morphological Awareness Test
    9. Research update: Morphemes, Meaning, and Dyslexia
    10. 10 Quick Vocabulary Activities (from the Twitter teacher)
    11. Vocabulary Routine Cards: (source unknown)
    12. ReWordify to locate Tier 2 vocabulary
    13. Build Vocabulary
    14. Frayer model:
    15. Thinking map templates:
    16. FCRR 2nd and 3rd grade Vocabulary activities
    17. FCRR 4th and 5th grade Vocabulary activities
    18. Google Slides Forced Copy of Shannon's created vocabulary slide show
    19. Google Docs Forced Copy of Shannon's created student vocabulary page

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    Meaningful Learning Assessments Feb 09, 2023
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    Often Shannon and Mary discuss different types of student assessments. Today we are going to dive a little deeper and discuss how we use data analysis to make meaningful adjustments and decisions to our teaching practices. Shannon brings the perspective of a classroom teacher and Mary shares how she individualizes plans for her private tutoring clients.
    Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

    1. SoR assessment list
    2. Reading Rockets: Assessment In Depth
    3. CORE Phonics Survey
    4. Wiley Blevins Comprehensive Phonics Survey
    5. Dibels 8th Edition
    6. Cherry Lee Informal Writing Screener
    7. our Getting to Know Your Readers episode Season 1 Episode 3
    8. our MAP test episode Season 1 Episode 4
    9. Access to grade level text
    10. Behind Test Scores: What Struggling Readers Really Need


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    Decodable Texts with Emily Gibbons, the Literacy Nest Jan 26, 2023
    Show notes Shannon and Mary chat with Emily Gibbons from the Literacy Nest about decodable texts. This discussion provides information about how decodables are similar and different to trade books and leveled texts. In this episode, teachers will find out how and when to use decodable texts in reading instruction. Listeners will also learn the best sources for high quality decodable books and short texts.
    Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

    1. Decodable Texts Guide UFLI
    2. A tweet with a graphic that says "Decodable texts are a bridge, not a destination!" -C. Tartaglione
    3. A Research Study on the Effects of Using Decodable Texts with Systematic Phonics Instruction-Sadlier (Wiley Blevins)
    4. Decodable Readers: Benchmark Education
    5. Free Books for Kids: Beyond Decodables
    6. What are decodable books? IDA Ontario
    7. FB Group: Let's Talk Decodable Books & Literacy Resources!
    8. Five from Five: Decodable Books
    9. Decodable Comics
    10. What can I do with all these predictable books?
    11. Wiley Blevins webinar training
    12. Ready to move on from decodables?
    13. Decodable text tips
    14. Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Wiley Blevins *Amazon affiliate link*
    15. Scholastic's Super Book of Phonics Poems by Linda Ross *Amazon affiliate link*
    16. Emily Gibbon's podcast: Together in Literacy
    17. Emily Gibbon's website The Literacy Nest
    18. Emily Gibbon's Word List Builder


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    Simple View of Reading and Beyond with Dr. Janet Mort Jan 12, 2023
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    Shannon and Mary chat with Dr. Janet Mort, who has fifty years of experience in the field of education and reading. We discuss the Simple View of Reading and how that affected reading instruction in the 1980s and 1990s. Dr. Mort then shares how the research following the Simple View of Reading has shifted and become more defined. This discussion provides context to reading research over the last few decades and helps reading teachers understand how Science of Reading discoveries impact classroom instruction.
    Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

    1. Reading Rockets: Simple View of Reading
    2. The Reading Universe: Understanding the Big Picture: A Professional Development Guide to Illustrate the Universe of Skills for a Structured Approach to Early Literacy Instruction
    3. Twitter photo of the Simple View of Reading
    4. Path to Proficient Reading (Dr. Spear-Swerling)
    5. Video explanation of 4 quadrants
    6. Nell Duke: Beyond Simple View
    7. Simple View of Reading YouTube
    8. Reading League Curriculum Evaluation Guide
    9. Language Comprehension
    10. Fatal flaw in SOR
    11. Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Sanislas Dehaene *Amazon affiliate link, where we earn a small commission from your purchase*
    12. Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis *Amazon affiliate link*
    13. NAEYC Literacy Learning for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers by Tanya Wright, Sonia Cabell, and Nell Duke *Amazon affiliate link*
    14. Hugh Catt's Florida State University
    15. Dr. Mort's website Joyful Literacy Online
    16. Science of Reading Summit May 2023
    17. Sprig Learning's partnership with Joyful Literacy Interventions
    18. Shannon's High Frequency Word Mapping resources

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