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Shannon and Mary read over and discuss the Speaking and Listening standards in Reading to develop a deeper understanding of how and why these standards exist and help the students grow in literacy.     They show how the standards develop in the depth of knowledge across the grade levels from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade.   They also share ideas of ways to embed Speaking and Listening standards practice in classroom routines and project-based learning.

Episode Links for Resources:

1. Common Core Standards
2. Reading Rockets:   Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning
3. Speaking and Listening standards Utah
4. Elementary Nest:   How to Fit in Daily Speaking and Listening Activities
5. Education Week:  Helping English-Learners Meet the Common Core's Speaking and Listening Standards
6. The CCSS Speaking and Listening Standards...in 20 days or Less!
7. The Forgotten Strand in ELA:   Speaking and Listening
8. 9 Big Ideas Within the Speaking and Listening Standards
9. Let's Talk...About the Speaking and Listening Standards
10. Listenwise:   A tool to build listening comprehension
11. Teaching the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards:  Strategies and Digital Tools by Kristen Swanson *Amazon affiliate link*
12. Teaching the Core Skills of Listening & Speaking (ASCD) by Erik Palmer   *Amazon affiliate link*

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Shannon chats with Stephanie Summers from Pride Reading Program about the topic of helping students build their reading fluency.    They talk about what skills go into a student's reading fluency.     They share ways to work on fluency with readers.     In their chat, they reference ideas from The Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Rasinski.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. What is fluency?
2. Fluency methods
3. Note from Timothy Raskinski
4. The Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Raskinski *Amazon affiliate link*
5. Reading Rockets: Reading Basics-Fluency
6. Reading Rockets: Developing Fluent Readers
7. Reading Plus-a reading fluency software
8. The Measured Mom:   How to Improve Reading Fluency   
9. FCRR Fluency Activities K & 1st Grade
10. FCRR Fluency Activities 2nd & 3rd Grade
11. FCRR Fluency Activities 4th & 5th Grade
12. Google Docs Forced Copy of Shannon's created Weekly Fluency Rubric
13. Pride Reading Program's Website
14. Pride Reading Program on Facebook   
15. Pride Reading Program on Instagram  

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Shannon and Mary focus their conversation on how to build students' vocabularies.    They share less effective methods used in the past and how they've evolved their vocabulary instruction to help students the most.   In the chat, they reference ideas from Bringing Words to Life by Isabel Beck. 

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. How do we teach the Language Comprehension strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope?
2. Word Building:  20 root words and 14 prefixes= 100,000 words (Dyslexia Associates)
3. Academic Word Finder (AchievetheCore.org)
4. Word Study that Sticks: Best Practices by Pamela Koutrakos  *Amazon affiliate link*
5. Llamophones by Janik Coat
6. How to Teach Vocabulary for Reading Comprehension
7. Routine for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
8. Morphological Awareness Test
9. Research update:  Morphemes, Meaning, and Dyslexia
10. 10 Quick Vocabulary Activities (from the Twitter teacher)
11. Vocabulary Routine Cards:   (source unknown) 
12. ReWordify to locate Tier 2 vocabulary
13. Build Vocabulary 
14. Frayer model:  
15. Thinking map templates:  
16. FCRR 2nd and 3rd grade Vocabulary activities
17. FCRR 4th and 5th grade Vocabulary activities
18. Google Slides Forced Copy of Shannon's created vocabulary slide show
19. Google Docs Forced Copy of Shannon's created student vocabulary page

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Often Shannon and Mary discuss different types of student assessments. Today we are going to dive a little deeper and discuss how we use data analysis to make meaningful adjustments and decisions to our teaching practices. Shannon brings the perspective of a classroom teacher and Mary shares how she individualizes plans for her private tutoring clients.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. SoR assessment list 
2. Reading Rockets:    Assessment In Depth
3. CORE Phonics Survey
4. Wiley Blevins Comprehensive Phonics Survey
5. Dibels 8th Edition 
6. Cherry Lee Informal Writing Screener 
7. our  Getting to Know Your Readers episode Season 1 Episode 3
8. our MAP test episode Season 1 Episode 4
9. Access to grade level text
10. Behind Test Scores:  What Struggling Readers Really Need

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Shannon and Mary chat with Emily Gibbons from the Literacy Nest about decodable texts.   This discussion provides information about how decodables are similar and different to trade books and leveled texts.  In this episode, teachers will find out how and when to use decodable texts in reading instruction.  Listeners will also learn the best sources for high quality decodable books and short texts.   

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

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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