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Reading Teachers Lounge

98 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 8 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 120 ratings

This is the Reading Teachers Lounge where listeners can eavesdrop on professional conversations between elementary reading teachers. We are passionate about literacy and strive to find strategies to reach all learners. Shannon and Mary are neighbors who realized that they were “literacy soul sisters” at a dinner in their Atlanta neighborhood. Once they started chatting about reading they haven’t really stopped. Come join the conversation.

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Episodes

Supportive Strategies for Working Memory

April 19, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MB

Shannon and Mary chat about how to best support learners with working memory challenges.  This is a companion episode to a deep dive learning topic we went through with our Patreon community about Working Memory.    Listeners to this episode will walk away with increased awareness about which students may have working memory challenges AND strategies to help those students during reading instruction. RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE Working Memory and Learning: A...

Meaningful Professional Learning

April 06, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MB

Shannon and Mary talk with Kelly Butler and Carla Stanford about professional learning that is meaningful.   Kelly Butler worked with the Barksdale Reading Institute to bring about systems change in reading instruction in the state of Mississippi over the last twenty years.   Kelly and Carla share about a free resource they're working on now called Reading Universe, which is a one-stop shop for teachers and interested stakeholders to learn about best practices in teaching reading. RECOMMEND...

the Intersection of Speech, Reading, and Language

March 22, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MB

Shannon and Mary chat with speech therapist Dr. Karen Dudek Brannan about the overlaps between speech, reading, and language.   Dr. Karen helps us understand the challenges facing students with language impairments.    From this episode, teachers can understand the perspective of a speech therapist to better understand speech and language challenges.    After listening, you should walk away with ideas about conversations to have with the speech therapist in your building and an awareness of ...

the Importance of Handwriting

March 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MB

Shannon and Mary discuss the importance of prioritizing handwriting instruction simultaneously with reading and writing instruction in the early grades. Learn why handwriting is essential for overall literacy development and how to include it in your daily instruction. RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE The Importance of Teaching Handwriting by Louise Spear Swerling Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing, readings of student brains sugge...

Date Your Data

February 23, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

Shannon shares with Mary the steps she follows for analyzing student data.    This Date Your Data process requires multiple steps of looking at test scores, improvement goals, student strengths and weaknesses, and then connecting the data to standards to facilitate data-driven instruction.  This method of data review makes the test score information meaningful to teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders.   Listen to find out how to Date Your Data to get to know your students and t...

Building Knowledge with Linda Rhyne

February 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB

Shannon and Mary are joined in by Linda Rhyne in the Reading Teachers Lounge. They share a deep dive of information from the book, The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler. This episode is full of information and strategies to increase your student's knowledge helping them dive deep into comprehension and knowledge building.  Linda Rhyne is a returning guest to the show and shares her expertise in guiding professional discussions to help educators meet their student's literacy goals. RECOMMENDE...

Ideas for Differentiation with Wiley Blevins

January 19, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MB

Shannon chats with her favorite literacy guru, Wiley Blevins, about the decisions and methods that go into differentiation.    Shannon picks his brain about some of her reading students.  Also, Wiley shares insights from his coming book about adjustments that teachers can make before or during their lessons to better suit the learning levels of their students.   We always get some much wisdom from Wiley, whether it be from a direct chat, a webinar he hosts, or from a book he's authored.    L...

Gifts for Our Readers with Dr. Karen Gazith

January 05, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 45 MB

Shannon and Mary chat with Dr. Karen Gazith about her new book The Power of Effective Reading Instruction.   The conversation flowed through many topics but ultimately what you can gain from our discussion is the gifts we give our readers when we teach with intention.  Listen to this episode to gain fresh ideas for enhancing your own reading instruction. RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE Ask the Right Questions about RTI Wait to Fail Model  The Power of Effectiv...

Read Aloud to Boost Comprehension

December 08, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

Mary and Shannon chat with Dr. Molly Ness about her new book Read Alouds for All Learners.   Molly shares how teachers should intentionally plan their read alouds, with thought put into the vocabulary instruction, the purpose for reading, the think aloud process, and engagement and extension activities for students after reading. Listen to this episode for TONS of ideas from our guest about how to get the most learning out of your read aloud experiences. RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTI...

the Comprehension Process

November 24, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB

Shannon and Mary wrestle with understanding the nature of the comprehension process.  They discuss ideas from the Blueprint for Reading Comprehension and Executive Skills and Comprehension to understand the different cognitive processes and executive functioning required for students to extract and construct meaning from texts. RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE the Reading Comprehension Blueprint by Nancy Hennessy *Amazon affiliate link Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: A G...

Best Reading Instructional Moves

November 10, 2023 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MB

Shannon chats with Lindsay Kemeny about her new book titled 7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-3 Reading Success.     Both Shannon and Lindsay have classroom experience teaching Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students, so their discussion was filled with details and stories about the best instructional strategies and techniques teachers should use to help their students become fluent readers. RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE 7 Mighty...

We Love Mistakes

October 19, 2023 23:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MB

Shannon and Mary talk about why they love student mistakes.   They share how to make mistakes meaningful in the ways they show insight into students' learning.     They chat about establishing a trusting relationship with students so they feel comfortable showing us mistakes.  Lastly, they discuss ways to provide student feedback without inducing shame.   Learning happens between the lessons, and in this episode, you'll find concrete ideas for what to do and say each day with your students t...

Intervention in the Upper Grades

October 05, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MB

Shannon and Mary meet with Kionna Squires (@DaLiteracyLady) to talk about the challenges facing older struggling readers.    During the discussion, they explain how meeting students where they are IS rigorous and the right thing to do for our readers.  They also share ideas for boosting student engagement and their favorite activities for upper grade reading intervention. RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE Texas Center for Learning Disabilities: Effective Reading Interventions for Uppe...

Etymology and Orthographic Study

September 21, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MB

Shannon and Mary host a returning guest to the Reading Teachers Lounge @MindfulTeacherRachel, who you heard in Season 5 on the Schwa episode.   In this episode, Shannon, Mary, and Rachel talk about English word histories and how they may inform how a word is spelled.   Check out this discussion to get ideas for how to share word origin stories with your reading students and help students see how important morphology is in addition to sound symbol connections. RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE ...

Back to School Reflections and Plans

September 07, 2023 23:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

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 Georgia Department of Education:  Dyslexia Information Great E-books about Structured Shared Reading & Writing and other guides Regarding Dyslexia Assessi...

Summer Reading Tips

June 15, 2023 23:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

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 ...

Season 5 Finale: Ends & Beginnings

May 18, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MB

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...

Putting the Science of Reading Into Action with Malia Hollowell from Playdough to Plato

May 04, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MB

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 ...

Teaching and Reaching Diverse Learners

April 20, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB

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: Teaching With Multiple Modalities 10 Visual Literacy Strategies Media Literacy Visual Learning Tips for Viewing Images in Picture Books Trau...

Practical Tips for Reading Teachers with guest Jamie Sears from Not So Wimpy Teacher

April 06, 2023 23:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MB

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 easie...

Speaking and Listening Standards

March 23, 2023 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB

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: Common Cor...

Building Reading Fluency

March 11, 2023 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MB

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: What is fluency? Fluency methods Note from Timothy Raskinski The Megabook of Fluency by Timothy Raskinski *Amaz...

Building Vocabulary

February 24, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

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: How do we teach the Language Comprehension strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope? Word Building:  20 root words and 14 prefixes= 100,000 words (Dyslexia Asso...

Meaningful Learning Assessments

February 10, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB

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: SoR assessment list  Reading Rockets:    Assessment In Depth CORE Phonics Survey Wiley Blevins C...

Decodable Texts with Emily Gibbons, the Literacy Nest

January 27, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MB

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: Decodable Texts Guide UFLI A tweet with a graphic...

Simple View of Reading and Beyond with Dr. Janet Mort

January 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MB

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 impac...

Orthographic Mapping with Anna Geiger (The Measured Mom)

December 23, 2022 00:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MB

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 classroom...

the Reading Brain with Dr. Marnie Ginsberg

December 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

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 exam...

Balancing It All as a Reading Teacher (with Guest Linda Rhyne)

November 25, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MB

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...

Classroom Libraries with Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp

November 11, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB

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: The Commonsense Guide to Your Classroom Library: Building a Collection that Inspires, Engages, and Challenges Readers by Donalyn Mille...

the Schwa

October 27, 2022 23:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

Shannon and Mary chat with Mindful Teacher Rachel about the Schwa vowel sound and how to teach it to students.  She shares great stories from her classroom about teaching reading and all about her newly published book that can be used to introduce the Schwa to readers.   You'll want to listen in on this chat between reading teachers to get strategies and resources for working on the Schwa with your own reading students. Episode Resources: Rachel's book Schwa in 1st Grade on Amazon Uncover...

Our Favorite Literacy Resources

October 13, 2022 23:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MB

Shannon and Mary chat about their favorite free and low cost literacy resources to use in reading lessons and tutoring sessions.   They share links to:  complete phonics curriculum resources that include scope and sequences, decodable texts, vocabulary lists and activities, phonics and phonemic awareness activities, and strategies for teaching comprehension.   Check out the links in the show notes to find resources to use with your own reading students. Episode Resources: our episode about...

Supporting English Language Learners

September 29, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

Mary and Shannon chat with Stephaney Jones-Vo about how to best support the reading needs of English Language Learners.    Stephaney describes the differences in needs of ESOL students at various levels and provides easy ideas for differentiation and scaffolding for students at different levels.   Stephaney shares how to understand the language load of class assignments and assessments, and this lens will help teachers view their own learning assignments in a fresh and supportive way for the...

Season 5 Opener: New School Year, New Season of the Podcast

September 15, 2022 23:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MB

Shannon and Mary meet up after the summer hiatus to chat about going back to school.  They catch up on their personal activities from the summer and then share their instructional plans for the new school year in 2022-2023. Episode Resources: Shannon's Phonics Units Decodable readers from Heggerty Decodable readers from High Noon Decodable readers from Geodes Decodable readers from Flyleaf Morpheme Magic from Deb Glaser Mary's updated website Van Cleave vocabulary resources our Pat...

School Year and Season 4 Wrap Up

June 30, 2022 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Shannon and Mary catch up on their teaching activities and personal lives during the past school year.  They share highlights from the past season and what is coming next in Season 5 and the 2022-2023 school year. Episode Resources: Shannon's Phonics Units Decodable readers from Heggerty Decodable readers from High Noon Decodable readers from Geodes Decodable readers from Flyleaf Morpheme Magic from Deb Glaser our Morphology episode our Wiley Blevins Scope and Sequence episode our ...

Long and Short Vowels

June 23, 2022 23:00 - 13 minutes - 9.29 MB

Shannon and Mary share some new understandings they've discovered about the differences between long and short vowels.  They chat about how they'll modify some phonics activities for students after discovering these new understandings. Episode Resources: The ABC's and All  Their Tricks by Margaret M. Bishop (*Amazon affiliate link) our Season 1 episode about Short Vowels our Season 1 episode about Long Vowels our Season 4 episode about Sound Walls Shannon's Long and Short Vowel Soccer ...

Differentiation for Different Readers

June 16, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

Shannon and Mary chat with Nancy Young, the creator of the Ladder of Reading & Writing,  about differentiated instruction for readers at different levels.      [Note: Our podcast has explicit permission from Nancy Young to use her Ladder infographic image and information with our audience.]  In this episode we discuss the equitable need for differentiation, in order to "offer children what they need based on where they are."   Strategies, examples, and activities are shared for teachers to m...

Just Right Reading Books for Families and Students

June 02, 2022 23:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MB

Shannon chats with Sarah Rich, CEO of Just Right Reader, about her company that provides decodable readers to students, families, teachers, and schools.  Sarah and Shannon talk about how decodable texts are important for the right reading practice for students.   Sarah provides details about their mission to make reading fun and for students to learn to read with engaging decodables that are representative of students in America's schools. Episode Resources: Decodable Book Collection from ...

Sound Walls

March 24, 2022 23:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Shannon and Mary chat with Christina Edmondson (@literacywithmrs.e) about implementing Sound Walls into your literacy classrooms.  Christina shares how Sound Walls compare to traditional word walls and provides ideas for using them with students in reading and writing.  She describes exactly how to set up your own Sound Wall and start using with your readers. Episode Resources: Transitioning from Word Walls to Sound Walls (Reading Rockets) Understanding the How and Why of Sound Walls (Too...

Phonemic Awareness: In the Dark or With Letters?

March 04, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

Shannon and Mary chat about the recent debate in the science of reading community about whether phonemic awareness drills without letters are a worthwhile exercise for readers.  They describe activities they've done with struggling readers to build phonemic awareness, and they talk about the use of those activities as a part of Tier 1 reading instruction. Episode Resources: Research article  Response from David Kilpatrick and others Timothy Shanahan: RIP to Advanced Phonemic Awareness I...

Morphology

February 11, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

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: Wiliam Van Cleve: Morphology Matters, Word Sums, and More Van Cleve-Morphology Matters Video ODE-Using Word Bases video What Should Morphology I...

New Understandings about Encoding

January 28, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

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, w...

The Updated Ladder of Reading and Writing

December 31, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MB

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: Nancy Young's website Nancy's blog post about her updates to the Ladder The Updated ...

The Importance of Storytelling

December 17, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB

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: Information for parents about BOOKR Class App 2 week ...

Supporting Reading Teachers

November 25, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

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: Jumpstart program Webinars & Trainings Twitter @teachingmatters Contact Teaching Matters : [email protected] Early Reading Assessment Toolkit from Teaching Matters Reading Matters Literacy activities from Teaching Matters Bo...

Scarborough's Reading Rope with Tess Kraft

November 12, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MB

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: Overview of the Reading Rope Reading Rope padlet 20 years of Reading Rope recordings Nell Duke Reading Rope Redefined Complete Nell Duke article link Really Great Reading articl...

Science of Reading with Heidi Martin

September 30, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MB

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: Heidi's website Science of reading YouTube video  Science of Reading Blog and video series Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction  What is the SOR? Timothy Shanahan What is science of reading? SOR guide Wh...

Chatting about Scope and Sequence with Wiley Blevins

September 16, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 59 MB

Shannon and Mary chat with literacy expert Wiley Blevins about the scope and sequence of phonics instruction.  Episode Links for Resources mentioned: ILA Brief Meeting the Challenges of Early Phonics Instruction by  Blevins  Our Previous episode  about Wiley's ILA Brief A Fresh Look at Phonics by Blevins * Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Blevins * Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by  Blevins * Phonics from A to Z by  Blevins * 10 Common Causes of Phonic...

Season 4 Opener: Back To School & Together Again

September 06, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MB

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: Link to our MAP episode from Season 1 Heggerty Phonemic Awareness LLI kits by Fountas & Pinnell HD Word by Really Great Reading Jen...

Season 3 Finale

July 15, 2021 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB

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   COME JOIN THE CONVERSATION!  Our Website Facebook Inst...

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