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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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Shannon and Mary chat with LaMonica Williams, Director of Programs for Teaching Matters, about how to support reading teachers and their students through intensive but supportive coaching and literacy training.   


Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Jumpstart program
2. Webinars & Trainings
3. Twitter @teachingmatters
4. Contact Teaching Matters : [email protected]
5. Early Reading Assessment Toolkit from Teaching Matters
6. Reading Matters
7. Literacy activities from Teaching Matters

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Shannon chats about the different strands of Scarborough's Reading Rope with Tess Kraft.   They talk about all the many different skills that weave together into skilled reading and share ideas about transferring the science of reading into effective literacy instruction.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Overview of the Reading Rope
2. Reading Rope padlet
3. 20 years of Reading Rope recordings
4. Nell Duke Reading Rope Redefined
5. Complete Nell Duke article link
6. Really Great Reading article about the Reading Rope
7. Animated Reading Rope
8. 39 Clues Text Series (*Amazon affiliate link)
9. The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler (*Amazon affiliate link)
10. Literacy Program  from American College of Education
11. Know Better, Do Better by Meredith Liben (*Amazon affiliate link)
12. Dyslexia and Spelling by Kelli Sandman-Hurley (*Amazon affiliate link)
13. LETRS trainings
14. Science of Reading Facebook group
15. Tess's website
16. Tess on Instagram @tessthekraftyteacher

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Shannon and Mary chat with Heidi Martin about her journey into learning about the Science of Reading.   Heidi has been documenting her literacy transformation on Tiktok (@learningwithheidi) and Instagram (@droppinknowledgewithheidi).   

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Heidi's website
2. Science of reading YouTube video 
3. Science of Reading Blog and video series
4. Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction 
5. What is the SOR?
6. Timothy Shanahan What is science of reading?
7. SOR guide
8. What teachers should know about SOR 
9. The Science of Reading
10. The sciences of reading 
11. Teaching Rubrics aligned with SOR
12. Creativity to the Core
13. Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick *(Amazon affiliate link)
14. Amplify resources 
15. Really Great Reading free training about SOR
16. Heart Word Magic
17. Junior Learning resources
18. Magnet Chips & Wand *Amazon affiliate link
19. Zingo game *Amazon affiliate link
20. Really Great Reading free letter tiles

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Shannon and Mary chat with literacy expert Wiley Blevins about the scope and sequence of phonics instruction. 

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. ILA Brief Meeting the Challenges of Early Phonics Instruction by  Blevins 
2. Our Previous episode  about Wiley's ILA Brief
3. A Fresh Look at Phonics by Blevins *
4. Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Blevins *
5. Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by  Blevins *
6. Phonics from A to Z by  Blevins *
7. 10 Common Causes of Phonics Instruction failure by  Blevins (free)
8. Decodable Text Lesson Sampler (shared with us from Wiley)
9. Decodable Text Lesson Planner (shared with us from Wiley)
10. Leveled Books with a Phonics  (shared with us from Wiley)
11. Look Fors:  Routines (shared with us from Wiley)
12. Jeanne Chall
13. Wiley's training on Decodable Texts
14. Wiley Blevins website
15. Find Wiley on Twitter @wbny
16. Reading Rockets Scope and Sequence
17. University of Texas Scope & Sequence
18. University of Florida Scope & Sequence
19. Learning at the Primary Pond Scope & Sequences for each grade 

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In their Season 4 opener, Shannon & Mary update listeners on their summer activities and their plans for the upcoming school year and podcast season.   They share what they've been reading and learning about lately, which leads to a discussion about differentiating for students at various points on the Reading Ladder.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Link to our MAP episode from Season 1
2. Heggerty Phonemic Awareness
3. LLI kits by Fountas & Pinnell
4. HD Word by Really Great Reading
5. Jennifer Serravallo Complete Comprehension Kits
6. What To Do About Dyslexia by Richard Selznick *
7. Suddenly Diverse: How Districts Manage Race and Inequality  by Erica O. Turner *
8. Dyslexia and Spelling by Kelli Sandman-Hurley 
9. Building Readers for Life (Emily Gibbons)
10. Seth Perler TEFOS Summit (Executive Functioning) 
11. Tiimo app
12. Jennifer Serravallo Reading Strategies book *
13. Jennifer Serravallo Writing Strategies book *
14. Words Their Way book *
15. Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print by Marilyn Jager Adams
16. Science of Reading Facebook group  
17. Holly Lane (University of Florida)
18. Know Better, Do Better by Meredith and David Liben *
19. Lucy Hart Paulson's site (LETRS creator) 
20. Nancy Young  (Reading Ladder)
21. Recording of Nancy Young’s Differentiation webinar

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In this episode, Shannon closes out the third podcast season. She describes the struggles from the 2020-2021 school year and shares what's coming next for the podcast in Season 4.
 
 Resource Links:

1.    Boundaries podcast episode (We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle)

2.    Ross on Friends ("Pivot!")

3.    How to Set Boundaries as a Teacher (Cornerstone for Teachers)

4.    Teachers, This Should be the Summer of Saying No

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