Reading Teachers Lounge

Shannon shares how guided reading groups are the non-negotiable element in her daily classroom. In this episode Mary and Shannon weigh in on the importance and power of small group teaching of guided reading.

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1. Guided Reading video
2. Lucy Calkins videos (small group videos on this page)
3. Decodable text guided reading lesson video
4. Comprehension Discussion prompts
5. AMAZING free resources from Jan Richardson, a guided reading guru
6. Guided reading self-assessment for teachers
7. Prompts for Guided Reading
8. Fountas & Pinnell-What is Guided Reading
9. Narrative Nonfiction Guided Reading Lesson video
10. Guided Reading-the Nuts and Bolts (from Scholastic)
11. The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading by Jan Richardson*

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Mary discusses the concept of alphabetic principle and strategies for teaching blending.


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1. Reading Rockets Blending and Segmenting Strategies
2. The Alphabetic Principle from Phonological Awareness to Reading Words
3. What is the Alphabetic Principle? This Reading Mama
4. Florida Center for Reading Research - Letter Correspondence
5. Teaching Word Recognition, Second Edition: Effective Strategies for Students with Learning Difficulties (What Works for Special-Needs Learners)  by Rollanda E. O'Connor*
6. Finger tapping
7. Blending Board Binder (great example)
8. The Blending Slide

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Great news! Shannon is here to help address more listener questions about Lucy Calkins, comprehension strategies and professional development for reading specialists.


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1. Lucy Calkins Writing Units of Study
2. The Writing Revolution by Judith Hochman and Natalie Wexler*
3. Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis*
4. Dyslexia Training Institute

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Mary discusses a student she is working with who flies under the radar in his general education classroom. In this discussion, she poses the question "Who are kids who fly under the radar? How can we better address their needs?" This episode will engage listeners to consider their own students and reflect on who and why kids "fly under the radar."

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1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Tips to Spot an Under-the-Radar Student—and Tools to Get Her Back on Track
2. Our episode S1 Ep 13 Recognizing a Struggling Reader: The Big Secret
3. Catching Readers Before They Fall by Pat Johnson and Katie Keier*

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Mary responds to listener questions about time management and the components of a tutoring session.

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1. OG Drill information
2. I <3 Emily Gibbon's materials at The Literacy Nest
3. Our episode on Executive Functioning
4. Our episode on Sight Words

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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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