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Mary discusses a brief that has been put out by the International Literacy Association that shares information about how phonics instruction must be systematic and explicit as part of an overall efficient, effective, and timely reading curriculum.


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1. Education Week July 18, 2019 Influential Reading Group Makes it Clear: Students Need Systematic, Explicit Phonics
2. Brief from ILA Meeting the Challenges of Early Phonics Instruction
3. Hard Words Why Aren't Kids Being Taught to Read (APM report by Emily Hanford)
4. our Episode about reading terms: Phoneme and Grapheme
5. our Episode about Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

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This is the beginning of season 2! Shannon and Mary catch up about what they have been up to during the summer and how they're getting ready for the new school year.

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1. SMART Goals (lol)
2. Fundations Phonics Program
3. our Sight Words Episode
4. our Short Vowels episode
5. our Long Vowels episode
6. our R-Controlled Vowels episode
7. our Vowel Teams episode
8. our Syllables episode
9. our Phonemic Awareness episode
10. Kindergarten activities for books about different colors

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Are you ready for summer? We can't wait to play with our kids! Mary and Shannon have compiled some resources for hands-on summer play to practice important reading skills outside of the classroom.



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1. What Mom's Love blog with 101 ideas to encourage learning with chalk
2. Letter Sounds (Beginning, Middle, Ending sound Or or Sight Word with a spray bottle)
3. Pool Noodle games - CVC stack and knock over the rings 
4. Jumping Rope games with rhymes! :) Anna Banana*
5. Sight Word Soccer - label cones with words
6. Construction Site- Alphabet Rocks Scoop and Spell - Spell Name, Match Letters, Spell CVC words, etc
7. Sight Word Pebbles 
8. Fly Swatter I Spy (beginning sound), or letter/sound correspondence 
9. Baby Pool - Foam letters in the water and then match the letters to chalk letters (I Can Teach My Child.com) 

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We share some of the unexpected phonics lessons that students need that aren't always obvious in the curriculum guides. These  important and necessary phonics lessons are essential in phonics instruction.


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1. How To Teach Spelling by Laura Toby Rudginsky and Elizabeth C. Haskell*
2. Emily Gibbon's of The Literacy Nest Spelling Generalizations Bundle 
3. The Orton Gillingham Educators' Guide
4. Make Take Teach FLoSZ poster
5. Gentle Cindy anchor chart
6. FCRR Student Activities
7. 3 sounds of ed
8. The K or Ck Rule

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Shannon and Mary share how to facilitate digital assignments in the reading classroom.   We go into detail about using Moby Max, Imagine Learning, and Boom Learning with students. 

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1. Digital Assignments Sheet 
2. Cult of Pedagogy Podcast - Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies
3. Boom Learning
4. Imagine Learning
5. Moby Max
6. Lexia
7. Amplify
8. Nessy
9. Language Live
10. Epic

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Shannon and Mary review the terms phoneme and grapheme. They're important terms to understanding the connections between letters and sounds.


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1. Phonics they Use Words for Reading and Writing by Patricia Cunningham
2. Phonics A-Z by Wiley Blevins
3. Phonemes, Graphemes, and Letters: The Word Burger
4. 44 Phonemes in English

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Shannon and Mary discuss a professional article, "Why Phonics Teaching Must Change" published in Educational Leadership, September, 2008 by Jeannine Herron. They talk about a different approach to teaching students to read.  What if we focus more on encoding rather than starting with decoding?


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1. Article: Why Phonics Instruction Must Change 
2. Encoding, Decoding, and Understanding the Print Language
3. Teaching Encoding and Decoding
4. Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick
5. Review of Left and Right Brain - Healthline
6. FREE sound wall bulletin board 

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Shannon and Mary talk about pre-reading skills and other school readiness skills that students need before going to Kindergarten. They interview Emily Howland, a pre-school educator about important early literacy skills and language development. 


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1. All About Learning - Motivation to Read 10 Tips for Preschoolers
2. Conscious Discipline - Social/Emotional curriculum
3. Play based curriculum 
4. Types of preschool programming

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Executive Functioning is a term being thrown around a lot in schools today. We break down what this term means and why it's important for educators to understand it. We discuss the importance of teaching these essential life-long skills.


Resource Links:

1. Executive Functioning in Plain English
2. Executive Functioning Task Cards
3. 5 Ways Executive Functioning  Issues Can Impact Reading
4. The Reading Brain: Executive Function Hard at Work
5. Executive Function Skills:  the Building Blocks for Reading to Learn 

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Reading and Writing go hand-in-hand. Hesitant readers tend to be hesitant writers. We ask students to do a lot of writing throughout the day. Shannon and Mary discuss the importance and elements of quality writing instruction.


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1. Thinking Maps 
2. The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subject Areas by Judith C. Hochman and Amanda Wexler*
3. Reading and Writing Strategies Facebook Community
4. LOTS of writing instruction videos from The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (Lucy Calkins)
5. What is Writing Workshop
6. Writers Workshop Procedures
7. 7 Ways to Support Student Writing in any Content Area
8. Seth Perler student video describing how audience and purpose are essential to "getting your words on paper."
9. Seth Perler video blog The Writing Process (in plain English)
10. Empowering Writers

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