Reading Teachers Lounge

How do you get to know your readers? Shannon and Mary share some of their experience using basic assessment tools to check foundational skills of their students: 

• oral reading fluency
• sight words
• phonemic awareness
• decoding skills
• spelling

Resource Links:

1. Oral Reading Fluency (Dibels) 
2. Easy CBM
3. Dolch Sight Words 
4. Basic Phonics Test 
5. Quick Phonological Awareness Test 
6. Words Their Way Spelling Inventory 

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When was it that you first felt like you were a reading teacher who made the reading "magic" happen? When did you start to see growth from your students? What was the difference in your instruction or approach? 

In this episode, Shannon and Mary describe their development as literacy teachers.    They talk about the "moment when it clicked" and they figured out the magic of how to teach someone how to read.

Listen to this episode to learn more about the hosts and figure out their secrets to reading success.

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In this first episode, Shannon and Mary (two elementary reading teachers) introduce themselves and tell the stories about why they chose education and describe their varied teaching experiences.

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