Reading Teachers Lounge

Shannon and Mary meet again to begin the 6th season of the podcast.    They recap their summer activities in both professional and personal lives, update the audience on the plans they're making for their reading students this school year, and preview what's coming next in Season 6 of the podcast.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. Georgia Department of Education:  Dyslexia Information
2. Great E-books about Structured Shared Reading & Writing and other guides Regarding Dyslexia
3. Assessing Reading Multiple Measures from Core Literacy Library *Amazon affiliate link*
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Shannon and Mary bring you a surprise bonus episode for Season 5.   They chat with Dr. Amanda Alexander from Scholastic about statistics about summer reading.   In the episode, they all share tips about how to make the most of the summer reading experience. 

Note:  The research statistics cited were compiled by Scholastic in conjunction with Fluent Research.   The findings are based on a nationally representative sample of 1,724 parents and children, including 531 parents of children ages 0–5; 1,193 parents of children ages 6–17; plus one child aged 6–17 from the same household.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. Scholastic Summer Reading Home Base
2. Scholastic Ultimate Summer Reading Guide
3. Scholastic Kids and Family Reading Report
4. How Educators Can Strengthen Summer Reading Connections with Families by Dr. Amanda Alexander
5. Scholastic Warehouse Book Sale
6. our Season 3 Episode 1:    Books as Windows, Doors, and Mirrors
7. our Season 5 Episode 5:  Classroom Libraries
8. Learning Ally: Audiobooks
9. The Good Egg by Jory John *Amazon affiliate link*
10. Get Literacy Support through our Patreon
11. Educate & Rejuvenate June 27-28, 2023 <---This is the link for ALL the information and WHERE to sign up!
12. Shannon's bundle of lesson plans for teaching syllables (You get this free if you upgrade to the Conference Platinum Pass!)

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Shannon and Mary meet up to review how season 5 of the podcast has gone.    They share some of the things they learned during the season and list some of their favorite episodes and guests.   They also chat about the school year as it winds down, their upcoming summer plans, and what is in store for the podcast in Season 6.    At the end of the episode, they're joined by Kelsey Sorenson from Wife Teacher Mommy to talk about the Educate and Rejuvenate event they're all participating in during June 2023.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. Season 5 Episode 4:  the Schwa with Mindful Teacher Rachel  
2. Season 5 Episode 6:  Balancing It All with Linda Rhyne
3. Season 5 Episode 7: The Reading Brain with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg
4. Season 5 Episode 8:  Orthographic Mapping with Anna Geiger
5. Season 5 Episode 9:  the Simple View of Reading and Beyond with Dr. Janet Mort
6. Season 5 Episode 10:  Decodable Texts with Emily Gibbons
7. Season 5 Episode 15:   Practical Tips for Reading Teachers with Jamie Sears
8. Season 5 Episode 17:  Putting the Science of Reading Into Action
9. Great E-books about Structured Shared Reading & Writing and other guides Regarding Dyslexia
10. Get Literacy Support through our Patreon
11. Educate & Rejuvenate June 27-28, 2023 <---This is the link for ALL the information and WHERE to sign up!
12. Shannon's bundle of lesson plans for teaching syllables (You get this free if you upgrade to the Conference Platinum Pass!)

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Shannon and Mary chat with Malia Hollowell (@Playdough2Plato) about her new book, Science of Reading In Action.    They summarize the big ideas within the Science of Reading for listeners and share practical actions teachers and parents can take to ensure they're doing best practices for students that are backed by literacy research.   After listening, you'll understand more about WHAT the SoR is, WHY it is important, and HOW to put it in action, no matter your literacy role.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Science of Reading: Defining Guide from The Reading League
2. White Paper-The Science of Reading (Zaner-Bloser)
3. Timothy Shanahan:   What is the Science of Reading? (Reading Rockets)
4. our Season 4 Episode about the Science of Reading
5. The Science of Reading in Action by Malia Hollowell *Amazon affiliate link*
6. Malia's website:  Playdough To Plato
7. Connect with Malia on IG:  @playdough2plato
8. Facebook group:  Science of Reading in Action

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Shannon and Mary chat with Khadijah Abdullah, a public school teacher in their area,  about how she balances the wide variety of reading abilities in her classroom.    Khadijah shares about her trauma-informed teaching practices and how she uses visual literacy to provide learning scaffolds for her students.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

1. Teaching With Multiple Modalities
2. 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
3. Media Literacy
4. Visual Learning
5. Tips for Viewing Images in Picture Books
6. Trauma Informed Teaching
7. Teaching Visual Literacy: Using Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Anime, Cartoons, and More to Develop Comprehension and Thinking Skills *Amazon affiliate link*
8. Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom: Comic Books, Film, Television and Picture Narratives (David Fulton Books) *Amazon affiliate link*
9. Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing: Multimodal Literacy 5 - 11 (Published in association with the UKLA)
10. Journey (Aaron Becker's Wordless Triology, 1) *Amazon affiliate link*
11. Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole *Amazon affiliate link*
12. Connect with Khadijah on Instagram @the_whole_heart_teacher

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Shannon and Mary chat with Jamie Sears from Not So Wimpy Teacher about how to get more done as a reading teacher in less time.  Jamie shares practical tips for teachers from her newly published book titled How to Love Teaching Again.    Listeners will walk away with ideas on how to save time in preparing lesson plans, routines for lesson structure, easy grading techniques, and ways to simplify reading groups.  Check out this episode to find out how to make your jobs as reading teachers easier and more enjoyable!

Episode Links for Resources:

1. Jamie's book information and website
2. How to Love Teaching Again by Jamie Sears *Amazon affiliate link*
3. Reading Basics from Reading Rockets
4. Classroom Management from Reading Rockets
5. 5 Ways to Keep Reading Centers Running Smoothly (Chalk and Apples)
6. How to Make Guided Reading Manageable (Scholastic)
7. Launching Readers Workshop (The Curriculum Corner)
8. Making Readers Workshop Work (ASCD)

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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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