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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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This is our 3rd 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 October 2024 bonus podcast episode, Shannon and Mary chat about the tutoring and advocacy work they've been doing.    Mary shares how she's fostering learning engagement and building relationships with her students.  Shannon talks about the new 3rd grade student she's started working with and some of the assessments she used to evaluate his reading skills.  Shannon also provides details about the Spelling Out Orthography strategy she's learning about in her Structured Word Inquiry training.   

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1. Wrights Law
2. Bookworms reading curriculum:   Owen Foote, Money Man by Stephanie Greene
3. Structured Word Inquiry Facebook group
4. Word Works Literacy office hours information
5. Structured Word Inquiry (WordWorksKingdom) homepage 
6. Spelling Out Orthography information

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Shannon and Mary welcome Heidi Martin (@Droppin' Knowledge with Heidi) back to the podcast, and Heidi's husband, Adam, a LETRS trainer, also joins the conversation.  They talk about all the aspects that go into the topic of Word Knowledge.  What are all the things students should know and understand about a word to demonstrate complete knowledge of that term? You'll walk away from listening to this episode with a more complete understanding of all the layers of skills within Word knowledge that we need to help our readers build.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1.  Heidi's website 
2.  Heidi's social media TikTok 
3.  Heidi's social media Instagram 
4.  Heidi on FB
5.  Heidi's decodables 
6.  Heidi's freebie about the Reading Brain 
7.  SOR 101 (Science of Reading 101) Membership 
8.  Strive for Five Conversations by Sonia Cabell and Tricia Zucker *Amazon affiliate link 
9.  Etymonline 
10.  our previous Science of Reading episode with Heidi 
11.  our episode about Delightful Word Learning with Collette Hiller 
12.  InferCabulary 
13.  3 Clicks Spelling 
14.  Spelling Riddles 
15.  Morpheme Magic 
16.  Structured Word Inquiry (Dr. Pete Bowers) 

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• Free Rubrics Guide created by us
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Shannon and Mary welcome Heidi Martin (@Droppin' Knowledge with Heidi) back to the podcast, and Heidi's husband, Adam, a LETRS trainer, also joins the conversation.  They talk about all the aspects that go into the topic of Word Knowledge.  What are all the things students should know and understand about a word to demonstrate complete knowledge of that term? You'll walk away from listening to this episode with a more complete understanding of all the layers of skills within Word knowledge that we need to help our readers build.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

1.  Heidi's website 
2.  Heidi's social media TikTok 
3.  Heidi's social media Instagram 
4.  Heidi on FB
5.  Heidi's decodables 
6.  Heidi's freebie about the Reading Brain 
7.  SOR 101 (Science of Reading 101) Membership 
8.  Strive for Five Conversations by Sonia Cabell and Tricia Zucker *Amazon affiliate link 
9.  Etymonline 
10.  our previous Science of Reading episode with Heidi 
11.  our episode about Delightful Word Learning with Collette Hiller 
12.  InferCabulary 
13.  3 Clicks Spelling 
14.  Spelling Riddles 
15.  Morpheme Magic 
16.  Structured Word Inquiry (Dr. Pete Bowers) 

• Get Literacy Support through our Patreon