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 crea

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