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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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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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Shannon and Mary chat with Ann Geiger from The Measured Mom about how  readers orthographically stores words in their reading brains.  This episode follows our overview of the reading brain, where we talked about the reader's journey to whole word recognition and how reading teachers can help their readers bolt on the orthography to what students already know in spoken language and language comprehension.  In this episode, we go into greater detail about best practices to do in the classrooms to help your students gain this meaningful letter sequence storage.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Dr. Linnea Ehri's List of Instructional Guidelines for Orthographic Mapping
2. Why 3 Cueing is Ineffective
3. Grapheme Deck
4. Sight Words, Orthographic Mapping, Phonemic Awareness by Stephen Parker
5. ISME tweet about Orthographic mapping
6. Visual model showing morphology as a binding agent relating semantics, orthography, and phonology (J. Kirby and N. Bowers)
7. How Orthographic Mapping Starts with Phonemic Proficiency
8. Song for Kids about Orthographic Mapping
9. Word Mapping Tool
10. 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*
11. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf *Amazon affiliate link*
12. The Measured Mom on Twitter
13. The Measured Mom on Instagram
14. The Measured Mom's Website
15. The Measured Mom's Membership
16. Shannon's High Frequency Word Mapping resources

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Shannon and Mary chat with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg from Reading Simplified about what happens in the brain during reading.   We talk about the reader's journey to whole word recognition and how reading teachers can help their readers bolt on the orthography to what students already know in spoken language and language comprehension. Listeners will learn how to build a strong foundation for reading and how to help their students build flexible decoding strategies.     Teachers will also hear examples of feedback to provide to readers in order to promote orthographic mapping.  Check out this episode to learn all about how the brain learns to read.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Twitter image of the Reading Brain image by @empoweredliteracy
2. Our Brains Were not Born to Read...right?
3. Brain Builders Amplify-video series
4. The Brain Dictionary
5. Dr. Molly McCabe on the Science of Reading video
6. Lecture by Dr. Stanislas Dehaene on "Reading the Brain"
7. Cortex in the Classroom video
8. 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*
9. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf *Amazon affiliate link*
10. Keys to Literacy: How the Brain Learns to Read  
11. Lexia Learning:  How the Human Brain Learns to Read  
12. Hill Learning Center:  The Reading Brain video
13. Cognitive Load
14. Reading Brain patterns
15. Eternal Triangle Model 
16. The Role of Set for Variability (Reading Rockets)
17. Reading Simplified Switch It Activity
18. Reading Simplified's YouTube Channel
19. Reading Simplified on IG

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Shannon and Mary ask Linda Rhyne to join them for a live Reading Teachers discussion about how to find balance in our reading instruction.   Teachers are asked to follow various curriculum programs, teach the grade level standards, differentiate for their students' needs, and utilize their own expertise & experience.  How can teachers blend all this together into cohesive literacy instruction that makes sense to students and themselves and balance what they're asked to do with what they know their students need to be successful in reading?    All these points are brought up in the chat, and Linda shares some tips for how teachers can be critical consumers and advocates for their students in their individual school buildings.   We hope this chat inspires you to think critically about your own teaching practice and instructional decisions. 

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. It's Our Science blog post
2. Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9
3. Curriculum is Misunderstood
4. Acadience Learning
5. DIBELS Data System
6. Upper Grade Fluency Activities
7. Sold A Story by Emily Hanford
8. Literacy View response to Sold a story
9. Opinion response to Sold a Story
10. NEPC:   Ed in the Apple:  The Reading Wars: Balanced Literacy versus Phonics, Revisited  by Peter Goodman
11. A balanced view of reading 
12. The Science of Reading Movement: The Never-Ending Debate and the Need for a Different Approach to Reading Instruction
13. Both And
14. Reading shifts 
15. https://twitter.com/lindaschultzie
16. https://www.instagram.com/lindarhyneconsulting/
17. https://www.lindarhyneconsulting.com/
18. https://www.facebook.com/lindarhyneconsulting
19. https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-schultz-rhyne-91704b93/
    
    

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Shannon and Mary chat with Donalyn Miller & Colby Sharp about their recently published Common Sense Guide to Your Classroom Library.    The reading teachers discuss how to set up and use the library to maximize its impact with kids.   This conversation provides the WHY behind decision making and instructional use of the classroom library.

Episode Resources:

1. The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library: Building a Collection that Inspires, Engages, and Challenges Readers by Donalyn Miller & Colby Sharp * Amazon affiliate link*
2. Colby Sharp's Blog
3. Nerdy Book Club (joint blog)
4. Donalyn Miller's website The Book Whisperer.com
5. Game Changer!  Book Access for All Kids by Donalyn Miller & Colby Sharp *Amazon affiliate link*
6. Reading Rockets: Creating a Classroom Library
7. Scholastic:  6 Tips to Help Set Up a Classroom Library
8. Education to the Core:   Setting Up Your Classroom Library
9. our episode about Books as Windows, Doors, and Mirrors
10. Building an Effective Classroom Library by Susan Catapano, Jane Fleming, and Martille Elias (Journal of Language and Literacy Education 2009)
11. Choice Literacy:    Creating a  Student-Organized Classroom Library
12. ASCD:  Creating a Classroom Library Together  
13. BookSource to Organize your Collection
14. Regie Routman:  Organize an Outstanding Classroom Library 
15. Booksourcebanter:    Resources for Building a Classroom Library  
16. Follett Classroom Library Manager  
17. The Yarn (Children's Literature Podcast by Colby Sharp and Travis Jonker)
18. Colby's Youtube  description of a Book Pass 
19. Twitter:  https://twitter.com/colbysharp
    https://twitter.com/donalynbooks
20. IG:    https://www.instagram.com/donalynm/
    https://www.instagram.com/colbysharp/

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Shannon and Mary chat with Mindful Teacher Rachel about the Schwa vowel sound and how to teach it to students.  She shares great stories from her classroom about teaching reading and all about her newly published book that can be used to introduce the Schwa to readers.   You'll want to listen in on this chat between reading teachers to get strategies and resources for working on the Schwa with your own reading students.


Episode Resources:

1. Rachel's book Schwa in 1st Grade on Amazon
2. Uncovering the Logic of English by Denise Eide *Amazon affiliate link*
3. Tools4Teachers Schwa information
4. Phonics Hero The Schwa Explained and How to teach it
5. Literacy Nest: How to Teach Schwa Part 1
6. Literacy Nest: How to Teach Schwa Part 2
7. Keys to Literacy: Teaching Schwa in Unaccented Syllables
8. Five from Five: The Schwa
9. Lists of Multi-Syllable Words with Schwa from Reading Rockets
10. Schwa Words and Activities
11. Rachel on Instagram @mindfulteacherrachel
12. Rachel on Tiktok @teacherrachelsorsel

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Shannon and Mary chat about their favorite free and low cost literacy resources to use in reading lessons and tutoring sessions.   They share links to:  complete phonics curriculum resources that include scope and sequences, decodable texts, vocabulary lists and activities, phonics and phonemic awareness activities, and strategies for teaching comprehension.   Check out the links in the show notes to find resources to use with your own reading students.


Episode Resources:

1. our episode about favorite FCRR resources
2. Florida Center for Reading Research Student Center Activities
3. Open Source Phonics
4. Tools4Teaching (formerly West Virginia Phonics)
5. UFLI new reading resources (Univ. of Florida)
6. CKLA Curriculum Resources
7. Emily Gibbon's Literacy Nest -Also check out her podcast, TpT resources, and her Tuesday newsletter for tips!
8. The Measured Mom
9. This Reading Mama
10. Walpole & McKenna Open Up Resources
11. Academic Vocabulary Word Lists by Grade Level (Flocabulary)
12. Get More Vocabulary.com: Shades of Meaning
13. Reading Rockets: Semantic Gradients  
14. Edison Literacy
15. Readwritethink lessons
16. Flyleaf Publishing Decodables
17. Open Source Phonics Decodable Texts
18. Free passages according to Lexile (Read Works)
19. Jan Richardson's resources
20. Emily Gibbon's Word List Builder
21. ISME (Institute for Multi-Sensory Education) Digital Resources
22. Getting Reading to Read Phonemic Awareness activities *Amazon affiliate link*
23. How to Teach Spelling *Amazon affiliate link*
24. Handwriting Joke book *Amazon affiliate link*
25. Learning Ally Audiobook Solution
26. Recipe for Reading Success books
27. our Patreon site and details

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Mary and Shannon chat with Stephaney Jones-Vo about how to best support the reading needs of English Language Learners.    Stephaney describes the differences in needs of ESOL students at various levels and provides easy ideas for differentiation and scaffolding for students at different levels.   Stephaney shares how to understand the language load of class assignments and assessments, and this lens will help teachers view their own learning assignments in a fresh and supportive way for their students.


Episode Resources:

1. How Does the Science of Reading Apply to Teaching Multilingual Learners?
2. Podcast episode about SOR and ELL
3. Stephaney's book about Differentiation for ELLs *Amazon affiliate link*
4. Stephaney's book: Powerful Practices for Supporting English Learners *Amazon affiliate link*
5. Stephaney's book: Engaging English Learners Through Access to Standards *Amazon affiliate link*
6. WIDA Can Do Descriptors for various grade levels
7. WIDA Language Development Standards Framework (2020)
8. About the WIDA Access assessments
9. Reading Rockets:  What Does Research Tell Us About Teaching Reading to English Language Learners?
10. EdSource:  Why Phonics Instruction is not Enough for English Learners
11. What are BICS and CALP?
12. Academic Language and ELLs: What Teachers Need to Know
13. Academic Vocabulary Word Lists by Grade Level (Flocabulary)
14. our Patreon site and details

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Shannon and Mary meet up after the summer hiatus to chat about going back to school.  They catch up on their personal activities from the summer and then share their instructional plans for the new school year in 2022-2023.


Episode Resources:

1. Shannon's Phonics Units
2. Decodable readers from Heggerty
3. Decodable readers from High Noon
4. Decodable readers from Geodes
5. Decodable readers from Flyleaf
6. Morpheme Magic from Deb Glaser
7. Mary's updated website
8. Van Cleave vocabulary resources
9. our Patreon site and details

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