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This is our February 2025 exclusive bonus episode of Reading Teachers Lounge podcast.  In these bonus episodes, Shannon and Mary will share about the students they're helping in reading, the resources they're using, and the books and other materials they're studying to further their practical knowledge about the Science of Reading.  

We start this episode with an apology and explanation for the missing January episode and the delay in publishing this one.  (Back in January, Shannon's computer crashed unexpectedly and they lost 3 regular podcast episodes and the January bonus episode in the hard drive crash).

In this February 2025 bonus episode, Shannon and Mary provide details about their tutoring students of various ages and how they're using different curriculum resources with their readers.    Mary shares how she's having courageous conversations with teachers, parents, and administrators through her advocacy work.  Shannon and Mary chat about the resources they're using with their tutoring students:  Bookworms, Morpheme Magic, Write Score Super Sentences, SWI, and Word Matrices.  Check out the links below for more information about the resources mentioned.  

1. From Emotions to Advocacy by Peter W. D. Wright and Pamela Darr Wright *Amazon affiliate link
2. Wrights Law
3. Word Matrices
4. Super Sentences demonstration video
5. Super Sentences Bookworms example
6. Bookworms Grade 3 Module 4: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
7. Write Score
8. Pete Bowers' website  -lots of helpful links at the bottom of the home page
9. Spelling Out Orthography
10. free once a week Zoom with Dr. Pete Bowers about SWI 
11. Structed Word Inquiry for Early Readers
12. Cox Campus Structured Literacy course

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Shannon and Mary talk with Melissa Taylor from ImaginationSoup.net about the importance of nonfiction texts in a student's reading diet.    They chat about the flexible comprehension strategies students need to organize the information gathered from nonfiction and text features and structures that are specific to nonfiction texts.    Listeners should walk away inspired to put more NF texts in their readers hands.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Imagination Soup 
2. Melissa's Article: Reading Nonfiction Prepares Kids for Success
3. Comprehension Strategies
4. types of NF texts
5. CBS Sunday Morning-Finland schools Media Literacy story
6. Refutational Texts
7. Melissa on IG
8. Melissa on FB

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Shannon and Mary talk with Melissa Taylor from ImaginationSoup.net about the importance of nonfiction texts in a student's reading diet.    They chat about the flexible comprehension strategies students need to organize the information gathered from nonfiction and text features and structures that are specific to nonfiction texts.    Listeners should walk away inspired to put more NF texts in their readers hands.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Imagination Soup 
2. Melissa's Article: Reading Nonfiction Prepares Kids for Success
3. Comprehension Strategies
4. types of NF texts
5. CBS Sunday Morning-Finland schools Media Literacy story
6. Refutational Texts
7. Melissa on IG
8. Melissa on FB

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Shannon and Mary welcome LaMonica Williams from Teaching Matters back to the Reading Teachers Lounge. This time they chat about professional development experiences and the most effective ways to bring about positive change in school systems. They discuss the differences between management and leadership and how to foster student-centered school improvement.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Changes that Stick (Kappan)
2. Teaching Matters website
3. NYC Reads
4. Student Focused Coaching  by Jan Hasbrouck and Daryl Michel *Amazon affiliate link*
5. our previous episode with LaMonica Williams
6. The Good Struggle of Flexible Specificity
7. Reading Universe
8. LaMonica's Bio & Contact Information

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Shannon and Mary welcome LaMonica Williams from Teaching Matters back to the Reading Teachers Lounge. This time they chat about professional development experiences and the most effective ways to bring about positive change in school systems. They discuss the differences between management and leadership and how to foster student-centered school improvement.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Changes that Stick (Kappan)
2. Teaching Matters website
3. NYC Reads
4. Student Focused Coaching  by Jan Hasbrouck and Daryl Michel *Amazon affiliate link*
5. our previous episode with LaMonica Williams
6. The Good Struggle of Flexible Specificity
7. Reading Universe
8. LaMonica's Bio & Contact Information

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This is our 5th exclusive bonus episode of Reading Teachers Lounge podcast.  In these episodes, Shannon and Mary will share about the students they're helping in reading, the resources they're using, and the books and other materials they're studying to further their practical knowledge about the Science of Reading.  


In this episode, Shannon continues to share about the new learning and insights she's had about her instruction since getting training in Structured Word Inquiry and spelling out orthography.  Mary updates Shannon on some patterns she's seeing through her advocacy work.

1. Pete Bowers' website  -lots of helpful links at the bottom of the home page
2. Spelling Out Orthography
3. free once a week Zoom with Dr. Pete Bowers about SWI 
4. Structed Word Inquiry for Early Readers
5. Cox Campus Structured Literacy course

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Shannon and Mary chat with Katherine Hamilton about maximizing the learning impact of co-teaching.     The conversation is centered around an article from Choice Literacy written by Franki Sibberson titled Aligning Curriculum with Struggling Readers in Mind.  The article proposes that co-teachers need to reflect and determine how their various teaching activities and strategies align into a cohesive instructional plan for the students, so that the readers can build transferable skills they can apply across the school-day.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Choice Literacy article by Franki Sibberson
2. Ensemble Learning
3. Thinking Maps
4. Six Approaches to CoTeaching
5. 6 Models of CoTeaching
6. Collaborative Team Teaching: Challenges and Rewards

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Shannon and Mary chat with Katherine Hamilton about maximizing the learning impact of co-teaching.     The conversation is centered around an article from Choice Literacy written by Franki Sibberson titled Aligning Curriculum with Struggling Readers in Mind.  The article proposes that co-teachers need to reflect and determine how their various teaching activities and strategies align into a cohesive instructional plan for the students, so that the readers can build transferable skills they can apply across the school-day.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Choice Literacy article by Franki Sibberson
2. Ensemble Learning
3. Thinking Maps
4. Six Approaches to CoTeaching
5. 6 Models of CoTeaching
6. Collaborative Team Teaching: Challenges and Rewards

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This is our 4th  exclusive bonus episode of Reading Teachers Lounge podcast.  In these episodes, Shannon and Mary will share about the students they're helping in reading, the resources they're using, and the books and other materials they're studying to further their practical knowledge about the Science of Reading.  


In this episode, Shannon shares the new learning and insights she's had about her instruction since getting training in Structured Word Inquiry and spelling out orthography.  (Mary was out sick during this recording).

1. Pete Bowers' website  -lots of helpful links at the bottom of the home page
2. Spelling Out Orthography
3. free once a week Zoom with Dr. Pete Bowers about SWI 
4. Structed Word Inquiry for Early Readers
5. Cox Campus Structured Literacy course

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Shannon and Mary welcome @MindfulTeacherRachel back to the podcast to discuss strategies for helping their students strengthen spelling skills.     They talk about the stability of English spelling and the meaning-based reasons for a word's spelling, beyond sound-symbol connections.    Listeners will know what to look for in students' spelling errors and accuracies and walk away with fresh ideas for spelling instruction.  

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Our Etymology episode with Rachel
2. our Schwa episode with Rachel
3. Morrison-McCall Spelling Scale
4. spelling error analysis sheets from Rachel
5. Uncovering the Logic of English by Denise Eide *Amazon affiliate link*
6. Spelling for Life by Lyn Stone *Amazon affiliate link*
7. How to Teach Spelling by Laura Toby Rudginsky and Elizabeth C. Haskell *Amazon affiliate link*
8. Dyslexia and Spelling by Kelli Sandman-Hurley *Amazon affiliate link*
9. And Sometimes Y by Rachel
10. Short Vowel Proctors by Rachel
11. Schwa in 1st Grade by Rachel
12. Rachel on IG
13. Rachel on Tiktok
14. Explode the Code    
15. Words Their Way Spelling Inventory
16. Spelling Choice Tests
17. Sound Mounds (the Eppich Classroom)
18. Scribal O

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Shannon and Mary welcome @MindfulTeacherRachel back to the podcast to discuss strategies for helping their students strengthen spelling skills.     They talk about the stability of English spelling and the meaning-based reasons for a word's spelling, beyond sound-symbol connections.    Listeners will know what to look for in students' spelling errors and accuracies and walk away with fresh ideas for spelling instruction.  

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Our Etymology episode with Rachel
2. our Schwa episode with Rachel
3. Morrison-McCall Spelling Scale
4. spelling error analysis sheets from Rachel
5. Uncovering the Logic of English by Denise Eide *Amazon affiliate link*
6. Spelling for Life by Lyn Stone *Amazon affiliate link*
7. How to Teach Spelling by Laura Toby Rudginsky and Elizabeth C. Haskell *Amazon affiliate link*
8. Dyslexia and Spelling by Kelli Sandman-Hurley *Amazon affiliate link*
9. And Sometimes Y by Rachel
10. Short Vowel Proctors by Rachel
11. Schwa in 1st Grade by Rachel
12. Rachel on IG
13. Rachel on Tiktok
14. Explode the Code    
15. Words Their Way Spelling Inventory
16. Spelling Choice Tests
17. Sound Mounds (the Eppich Classroom)
18. Scribal O

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