Reading Teachers Lounge

Shannon and Mary catch up on their teaching activities and personal lives during the past school year.  They share highlights from the past season and what is coming next in Season 5 and the 2022-2023 school year.

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. our Morphology episode
8. our Wiley Blevins Scope and Sequence episode
9. our Nancy Young Differentiation episode
10. Mary's updated website
11. Van Cleave vocabulary resources
12. our Patreon site and details

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Shannon and Mary share some new understandings they've discovered about the differences between long and short vowels.  They chat about how they'll modify some phonics activities for students after discovering these new understandings.

Episode Resources:

1. The ABC's and All  Their Tricks by Margaret M. Bishop (*Amazon affiliate link)
2. our Season 1 episode about Short Vowels
3. our Season 1 episode about Long Vowels
4. our Season 4 episode about Sound Walls
5. Shannon's Long and Short Vowel Soccer game
6. Shannon's phonics units
7. FCRR Long and Short Vowel picture sort
8. FCRR Long and Short Vowel word sort

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Shannon and Mary chat with Nancy Young, the creator of the Ladder of Reading & Writing,  about differentiated instruction for readers at different levels.      [Note: Our podcast has explicit permission from Nancy Young to use her Ladder infographic image and information with our audience.]  In this episode we discuss the equitable need for differentiation, in order to "offer children what they need based on where they are."   Strategies, examples, and activities are shared for teachers to modify their literacy instruction based on the unique needs of their readers.

Episode Resources:

1. Nancy Young's website
2. Nancy's blog post about her updates to the Ladder
3. The Updated Ladder of Reading and Writing (in pdf form)
4. Nancy Young's Structured Literacy Primer
5. Ladder of Reading and Writing: Terms Defined
6. Permission request to use the Ladder of Reading and Writing
7. Resources from Nancy Young about the Ladder of Reading and Writing
8. Our episode from Season 4 about the Ladder's updates
9. Recording of Nancy Young's presentation about Differentiation 
10. Carol Connors' Differentiation research
11. Schoolwide Enrichment Model of Reading
12.  Curriculum Compacting
13. Secret Code Actions resource
14. Secret Code Actions free downloads
15. Vickie Gibson's Classroom Management resource

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Shannon chats with Sarah Rich, CEO of Just Right Reader, about her company that provides decodable readers to students, families, teachers, and schools.  Sarah and Shannon talk about how decodable texts are important for the right reading practice for students.   Sarah provides details about their mission to make reading fun and for students to learn to read with engaging decodables that are representative of students in America's schools.

Episode Resources:

1. Decodable Book Collection from Just Right Reader
2. Sample Decodables
3. about Just Right Reader
4. Family Literacy Boxes
5. Just Right Reader on Instagram
6. Just Right Reader on Facebook
7. Just Right Reader's Phonics Scope and Sequence
8. Decodable Books Explained
9. Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Wiley Blevins (*Amazon affiliate link)

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Shannon and Mary chat with Christina Edmondson (@literacywithmrs.e) about implementing Sound Walls into your literacy classrooms.  Christina shares how Sound Walls compare to traditional word walls and provides ideas for using them with students in reading and writing.  She describes exactly how to set up your own Sound Wall and start using with your readers.

Episode Resources:

1. Transitioning from Word Walls to Sound Walls (Reading Rockets)
2. Understanding the How and Why of Sound Walls (Tools4Reading)
3. Implementing a Sound Wall
4. Sound Wall Instruction and Template (Louisiana Literacy)
5. Timothy Shanahan: Should We Build a Word Wall or Not?
6. Sound Walls video (Pattan)
7. Putting Sound Walls to Practice
8. Word Walls, Sound Walls, What's the Difference?
9. Setting up a sound wall (Edutopia)
10. Uncovering the Logic of English (*Amazon affiliate link)
11. Christina's Instagram @literacywithmrs.e
12. Christina's TpT store

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Shannon and Mary chat about the recent debate in the science of reading community about whether phonemic awareness drills without letters are a worthwhile exercise for readers.  They describe activities they've done with struggling readers to build phonemic awareness, and they talk about the use of those activities as a part of Tier 1 reading instruction.

Episode Resources:

1. Research article 
2. Response from David Kilpatrick and others
3. Timothy Shanahan: RIP to Advanced Phonemic Awareness
4. I Think I was Wrong about Phonemic Awareness (a Teacher's perspective)
5. Heggerty Resources
6. Phonological Awareness Assessment
7. YouTube discussion about the topic among other reading teachers
8. Phonemic proficiency 
9. Reading Meetings with Mark and Molly
10. Getting Ready to Read by Jo Fitzpatrick (*Amazon affiliate link)
11. Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick (*Amazon affiliate link)
12. Shannon's Phonemic Awareness resources

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Shannon and Mary chat with Emily Conlan from @wordmorphed_ on Instagram about Morphology.   Emily shows how and where Morphology fits into structured literacy instruction and the science of reading. Their discussion provides easy ways to strengthen students' word meaning knowledge at different grade and age levels of readers.

Episode Resources:

1. Wiliam Van Cleve: Morphology Matters, Word Sums, and More
2. Van Cleve-Morphology Matters Video
3. ODE-Using Word Bases video
4. What Should Morphology Instruction look like?  (Reading Rockets)
5. The Base Bank from Jason Wade Education (Sounds & Syllables)
6. Morphology—A Gateway to Advanced Language
7. Morphological Awareness & Assessments article
8. Teaching Morphology to Improve Literacy: A Guide for Teachers
9. Uncovering the Logic of English (*Amazon affiliate link)
10. Base, Prefix, and Suffix Cards from Rhode Island Department of Education
11. Using Morphology to Teach Vocabulary (Keys to Literacy)
12. FCRR Morphology Activities for K and 1st Grade
13. FCRR Morphology Activities for 2nd and 3rd Grade
14. Emily Conlan's Website with Morphology Resources
15. Emily's Instagram: @wordmorphed_
16. https://morphememagic.com/

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Shannon describes some new ways she's helping her older elementary students learn how to encode and spell.   Mary shares the S.O.S strategy for Spelling and explains the research about encoding and the brain processing that happens as students make spelling choices.

Note: The S.O.S. strategy is typically included with all Orton-Gillingham training organizations and isn't just attributed exclusively to IMSE.   We appreciate Emily Gibbons from The Literacy Nest for this clarification. Also, we incorrectly stated that she had trained with IMSE, which was said in error.  She first trained with IMSLEC  (MA General Hospital O-G Training Curriculum) and then AOG (Academy of Orton-Gillingham).   You can learn more about her and the incredible work she does with multi-sensory resources and instruction at her website:  The Literacy Nest.

Episode Resources:

1. IMSE Journal Encoding vs. Decoding
2. What's in a word? Etymology for every teacher. 
3. TED Talk: Making Sense of Spelling Gina Cooke
4. Using the SOS strategy
5. Our Episode from Season 1: Encoding First, Decoding Second
6. Uncovering the Logic of English (*Amazon affiliate link)
7. The Logic of English website and resources
8. Our Episode from Season 2 about Spelling
9. Heggerty Phonemic Awareness assessment
10. Heggerty Bridge the Gap curriculum
11. Words Their Way Spelling Inventory

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Shannon and Mary discuss the revised Ladder of Reading and Writing that was recently updated by Nancy Young.   [Note: Our podcast has explicit permission from Nancy Young to use her Ladder infographic image and information with our audience.]  In this episode we compare the updates to the Ladder to its original form and discuss the changes and how they may impact literacy instruction.

Episode Resources:

1. Nancy Young's website
2. Nancy's blog post about her updates to the Ladder
3. The Updated Ladder of Reading and Writing (in pdf form)
4. Nancy Young's Structured Literacy Primer
5. Ladder of Reading and Writing: Terms Defined
6. Permission request to use the Ladder of Reading and Writing
7. Resources from Nancy Young about the Ladder of Reading and Writing
8. Our season 4 opening episode where we discuss Nancy Young's Differentiation webinar
9. Our Season 2 episode about Structured Literacy where we first discuss the Ladder
10. Recording of Nancy Young's presentation about Differentiation 

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Shannon and Mary chat with Anna Boldog from Bookr Class about the Importance of Storytelling.   They share their own memories and experiences with stories as readers and teachers. And they talk about what research shares about how storytelling impacts language and literacy development.    This discussion should prompt your own memories of stories and how they've impacted your life, your instruction, and your readers.

Episode Resources:

1. Information for parents about BOOKR Class App
2. 2 week free trial on BOOKR Class for teachers
3.  Holiday Calendar campaign from Bookr
4. Our previous episode Books as Mirrors, Doors, and Windows
5. Storytelling Improves Literacy
6. The Literacy Benefits of Storytelling
7. Paths to Literacy: Importance of Storytelling
8. Learning Language and Literacy
9. Role of Storytelling in Early Literacy Development
10. Dual Coding Theory and Education (James Clark and Allan Paivio) 
11. Four Good Reasons to Use Literature in Primary School (Irma Ghosn) 
12. Bookr Class on Instagram
13. Bookr Class on Twitter
14. Bookr Class on Facebook 
15.  Bookr Class video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJBaiBrHLUM
16. Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcnaajQPu_Q 

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