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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

1. The Importance of Teaching Handwriting by Louise Spear Swerling
2. Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing, readings of student brains suggest by Aria Bendix
3. The unexpected connection between handwriting and learning to read by Sheldon H Horowitz
4. HOW HANDWRITING AND LITERACY SKILLS GO HAND-IN-HAND
5. The Importance of Teaching Handwriting
6. 7 Reasons Why Handwriting Is Important for Kids
7. The Importance of teaching handwriting for cognitive development - PLD (Australia)
8. How to Teach Handwriting—and Why It Matters
9. Why Don’t the Common-Core Standards Include Cursive Writing?
10. 6 Multisensory ways to teach handwriting
11. What Every Teacher Should Know about Handwriting (LWT)
12. Learning Without Tears Guides
13. Reading Universe
14. The Importance of Handwriting Experience on the Development of the Literate Brain by Karin H. James
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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 their learning better.


RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. our Season 1 episode: Understanding the MAP test
2. Date Your Data free handout for MAP scores *created by Shannon
3. Date Your Data free handout for analyzing other data sources *created by Shannon
4. NWEA MAP Test information (login needed)
5. NWEA MAP Test website (no login needed)
6. MAP Quadrant Chart Analysis & Reflection *created by Shannon
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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.


RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler *Amazon affiliate link
2. The Reading Comprehension Blueprint by Nancy Lewis Hennessy *Amazon affiliate link
3. The Reading Comprehension Blueprint Activity book by Nancy Lewis Hennessy *Amazon affiliate link
4. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad *Amazon affiliate link
5. Linda Rhyne Consulting
6. Placing Texts at the Center of the Science Aligned ELA Classroom PDF
   M. Liben, S. Pimentel
7. Podcast recommended listening: Melissa and Lori Love Literacy, Ep. 37: Placing Text at the Center of the ELA Classroom with Meredith Liben & Sue Pimentel 
8. Knowledge Matters Campaign 
9. Tim Shananon blog: Knowledge or Comprehension Strategies?
10. Centering Knowledge Building: An Interactive Reading Guide. Users can access the materials Shannon and Mary used in exploring The Knowledge Gap. Linda created this interactive course and now for $25 you can access this treasury of science of reading texts and recommended articles. Listeners can use the code "LOUNGE" for $5 off!
11. Contact Linda through e-mail contact@lindarhyneconsulting.com
12. Follow Linda on Instagram @lindarhyneconsulting
13. our season 5 episode with Linda Balancing It All
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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.    Listen to this entire episode to get inspired about ways you can best meet your students' needs.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. Differentiating Phonics Instruction for Maximum Impact:  How to Scaffold Whole-Group Instruction So All Students Can Access Grade-Level Content by Wiley Blevins *Amazon affiliate link (For PreOrder)
2. Wiley's website
3. Reading Rockets:    Differentiated Instruction for Reading
4. Reading Rockets:  What is differentiated instruction?
5. Differentiated Reading Instruction:  Multiple Pathways to Literacy Success (Solution Tree)
6. Read Write Think:   Differentiating Instruction Strategy Guide Series
7. (Kappan Online)  Teaching Reading: Development and Differentiation
8. FCRR: Features of Effective Instruction Overview 
9. Sadlier School: 13 Ideas for Differentiated Reading Instruction in the  Classroom
10. (Read Naturally) Differentiating Instruction: Teaching Differently to Improve  Instruction
11. Benchmark Decodable Books
12. UFLI Foundations Deconudable Text Guide 
13. Linnea Ehri Continuous Blending Study 
14. Stanford Study (Bruce McCandliss) 
15. Empowering Writers
16. Our Season 4 Episode with Wiley 

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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

1. Ask the Right Questions about RTI
2. Wait to Fail Model 
3. The Power of Effective Reading Instruction:  How Neuroscience Informs Instruction Across All Grades and Disciplines by Karen Gazith *Amazon affiliate link
4. Teaching with Purpose: How to Thoughtfully Implement Evidence-Based Practices in Your Classroom by Karen Gazith *Amazon affiliate link
5. Website for Karen Gazith
6. Connect with Karen on Facebook
7. Connect with Karen on LinkedIn
8. Connect with Karen on Twitter
9. Karen's E-mail:   Karen.gazith@hotmail.com

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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 MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. Reading Rockets:  Reading Aloud to Build Comprehension
2. Reading Rockets:   Vocabulary Development During Read Alouds
3. ASCD:   The Hidden Power of Read Alouds
4. Scholastic:   5 Easy Skills to Teach Kids During Read-Alouds
5. Read Write Think:    Teacher Read-Aloud that Models Reading for Deep Understanding
6. Cox Campus:  Meaningful Read Alouds for Vocabulary and Oral Language Comprehension
7. Read Alouds for All Learners:  A Comprehensive Plan for Every Subject, Every Day, Grades PreK-8 (Learn the step-by-step instructional plan for Read Alouds for All Learners) by Molly Ness * Amazon affiliate link
8. Think Big with Think Alouds: A Three-Step Planning Process That Develops Strategic Readers by Molly Ness *Amazon affiliate link
9. Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall *Amazon affiliate link
10. The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game by Nancy Churnin *Amazon affiliate link
11. The Decline by Nine (Scholastic Reads Podcast)
12. End Book Deserts (Podcast by Molly Ness)
13. Website for Molly Ness
14. Contact Molly on Twitter
15. Contact Molly on IG

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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

1. the Reading Comprehension Blueprint by Nancy Hennessy *Amazon affiliate link
2. Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: A Guide for Educators by Kelly B. Cartwright *Amazon affiliate link
3. A Blueprint for Reading Comprehension webinar recording
4. A Comprehension Checkup webinar recording
5. excerpt from Chapter 1: the Reading Comprehension Blueprint
6. The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction by Nell Duke
7. Webinar and other info from Nell Duke 
8. Reading Comprehension Orchestra
9. How do we teach the Language Comprehension strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope?
10. Don't Stop Teaching Comprehension-Just Embed it In Context (Natalie Wexler)
11. Does text structure instruction improve reading comprehension?
12. Reading for Meaning: Teaching Rubric
13. The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: A Critical Review
14.  Reading Rockets: Comprehension 101
15. Micro Comprehension Amplify
16. Cohesive devices
17. Common Lit Curriculum
18. Idaho Comprehension Routines
19. Shanahan blog:  Knowledge or Comprehension Strategies?

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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

1. 7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-to-3 Reading Success by Lindsay Kemeny *Amazon affiliate link
2. Videos and Resources that accompany Lindsay's book
3. Lindsay's website
4. Lindsay on Twitter @LindsayKemeny
5. Lindsay's Youtube channel
6. Lindsay's blog
7. FREE Science of Reading self-paced Professional Development unit from Lindsay
8. FCRR Student Center Activities (Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, etc)
9. Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners) by Anita L. Archer *Amazon affiliate link
10. our Decodable Texts episode
11. our Scope and Sequence episode with Wiley Blevins
12. our Phonemic Awareness episode Season 4
13. our Phonemic Awareness episode Season 1
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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 to promote a growth mindset and engagement in learning.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. Actual Reading Errors
2. Reading Simplified: 4 Types of Reading Errors
3. Common Reading Mistakes and How to Fix Them
4. Error Analysis for Reading
5. Achieve to the Core: Mistakes Tell us What Students are Ready to Learn
6. How to Help when Students Don't Notice Errors
7. Teaching Students to Embrace Mistakes
8. Examination of the Student Mistakes in Oral Reading
9. Yo Yo Ma: Music Happens Between the Notes (On Being podcast)
10. The Big Secret Episode from Season 1
11. Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners) by Anita L. Archer *Amazon affiliate link
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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

1. Texas Center for Learning Disabilities: Effective Reading Interventions for Upper Elementary Students
2. Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9 (What Words Clearinghouse)
3. EdWeek: How Schools Can Support Older Students Who Lag in Reading
4. Reading Rockets: Best Practices in Planning Interventions for Students with Reading Problems
5. Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by Wiley Blevins *Amazon affiliate link
6. Florida Center for Reading Research 4th and 5th Grade Activities
7. Assessing Reading Multiple Measures (Core Literacy) *Amazon affiliate link
8. Structured Literacy Interventions edited by Louise Spear-Swerling *Amazon affiliate link
9. Raffi songs 
10. Moon Dogs books 
11. The Big Secret Episode from Season 1
12. Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners) by Anita L. Archer *Amazon affiliate link
13.  Book a free call with us to tour our Patreon and see if it's right for you!
14. Get Literacy Support through our Patreon

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