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Mary discusses a student she is working with who flies under the radar in his general education classroom. In this discussion, she poses the question "Who are kids who fly under the radar? How can we better address their needs?" This episode will engage listeners to consider their own students and reflect on who and why kids "fly under the radar."

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1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Tips to Spot an Under-the-Radar Student—and Tools to Get Her Back on Track
2. Our episode S1 Ep 13 Recognizing a Struggling Reader: The Big Secret
3. Catching Readers Before They Fall by Pat Johnson and Katie Keier*

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6 common roadblocks and how this mama helps others overcome them

Emily is a mom of 3 and she has already turned autism around for her son. She made all the mistakes, she warns you about in this weeks podcast interview. Today she talks about how she learned to spot the 6 most common roadblocks to success.

She shares how she had to do something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT to see real change in her son and how you can do the same.

Most of the things we do, because we have heard that it is the way to deal with autism will have the OPPOSITE effect and make matters worse.

Emily helps other moms in our barefoot autism warriors facebook group every day.


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Here are 3 ways we can start turning autism symptoms around together, whenever you're ready...

1. Send me a voice message and get my feedback on your most pressing struggles.

2. Check out the free video series "The 5 hidden messages behind autism symptoms" and find your child's unique triggers.

3. Work with me privately
If you’d like to work with me directly to turn as many symptoms around as possible in my Autism Turnaround Coaching and implementation group..send me an email with "coaching" in the subject line and tell me how old your child is. I’ll get you all the details.

Are you ready for summer? We can't wait to play with our kids! Mary and Shannon have compiled some resources for hands-on summer play to practice important reading skills outside of the classroom.



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1. What Mom's Love blog with 101 ideas to encourage learning with chalk
2. Letter Sounds (Beginning, Middle, Ending sound Or or Sight Word with a spray bottle)
3. Pool Noodle games - CVC stack and knock over the rings 
4. Jumping Rope games with rhymes! :) Anna Banana*
5. Sight Word Soccer - label cones with words
6. Construction Site- Alphabet Rocks Scoop and Spell - Spell Name, Match Letters, Spell CVC words, etc
7. Sight Word Pebbles 
8. Fly Swatter I Spy (beginning sound), or letter/sound correspondence 
9. Baby Pool - Foam letters in the water and then match the letters to chalk letters (I Can Teach My Child.com) 

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Shannon and Mary share how to facilitate digital assignments in the reading classroom.   We go into detail about using Moby Max, Imagine Learning, and Boom Learning with students. 

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1. Digital Assignments Sheet 
2. Cult of Pedagogy Podcast - Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies
3. Boom Learning
4. Imagine Learning
5. Moby Max
6. Lexia
7. Amplify
8. Nessy
9. Language Live
10. Epic

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Shannon and Mary talk about pre-reading skills and other school readiness skills that students need before going to Kindergarten. They interview Emily Howland, a pre-school educator about important early literacy skills and language development. 


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1. All About Learning - Motivation to Read 10 Tips for Preschoolers
2. Conscious Discipline - Social/Emotional curriculum
3. Play based curriculum 
4. Types of preschool programming

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Reading and Writing go hand-in-hand. Hesitant readers tend to be hesitant writers. We ask students to do a lot of writing throughout the day. Shannon and Mary discuss the importance and elements of quality writing instruction.


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1. Thinking Maps 
2. The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subject Areas by Judith C. Hochman and Amanda Wexler*
3. Reading and Writing Strategies Facebook Community
4. LOTS of writing instruction videos from The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (Lucy Calkins)
5. What is Writing Workshop
6. Writers Workshop Procedures
7. 7 Ways to Support Student Writing in any Content Area
8. Seth Perler student video describing how audience and purpose are essential to "getting your words on paper."
9. Seth Perler video blog The Writing Process (in plain English)
10. Empowering Writers

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Mary and Shannon sort out the complex terms that are related to phonological processing. What is the difference between phonological awareness and phoneme awareness? We discuss how we teach these skills and provide resource ideas for you to try!


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1. Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Introduction
2. Orton Gillingham Educators' Guide
3. Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick
4. Phonological Awareness and Dyslexia
5. Phonemic Awareness Overview (from U. of Oregon)
6. Getting Ready to Read Phonemic Awareness Centers (with the Frog book cover)
7. FCRR Student Activities-look at the Phonological Awareness resources
8. The Literacy Nest:Building Phonemic Awareness for Struggling Readers
9. Long and Short Vowel Phonemic Awareness sort
10. Shannon's Phonemic Awareness resources

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Vowel teams are combinations of vowels (two or more) that make one sound. When students begin learning about vowel teams they have to demonstrate an understanding of sound symbol relationship where multiple vowel teams represent a single sound. This developmental decoding milestone is quite complex and is a critical step that students must take on their journey to mastering syllable patterns. Shannon and Mary will walk you through some of the important steps in teaching readers vowel teams.

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1. The Literacy Nest Tips for Teaching Vowel Teams
2. Curated Vowel Teams Youtube clips playlist
3. FCRR Same but Different activity
4. FCRR Vowel Digraph Baseball activity
5. Words Their Way Within Word text
6. Pat Cunningham Looks Right strategy
7. Pat Cunningham Brand Name Phonics (unit within the text)
8. Vowel Team Word list with pictures (made by Shannon)
9. Electric Company video link (from the end of the episode)
10. Shannon's Vowel Team Lesson Plans & Activities

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Shannon and Mary discuss how they discovered the importance of teaching phonics instruction and syllable division to help their student begin to crack the code of reading. Throughout the episode they will talk about strategies and activities that include multi-sensory phonics instruction for teaching r-controlled vowel patterns.

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1. R-Controlled Spin game from FCRR
2. GREAT Youtube video clips to introduce & practice the sounds!
3. The Literacy Nest article about r-controlled vowels
4. Smitten with First R-controlled Friends
5. The Measured Mom Gem r-controlled game
6. Pat Cunningham Looks Right Strategy
7. Pat Cunningham Making Words activity
8. The Measured Mom FREE Elkonin boxes
9. R-Controlled word list and pictures (made by Shannon)
10. Shannon's R Controlled Vowel Teaching Units & Lesson Plans

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Shannon and Mary discuss background and strategies for teaching short vowels. You will learn facts and tidbits about literacy and why short vowels make their short, unique sounds. Hint! It has to do with the consonant next door. Learn about multi-sensory phonics based games and strategies for teaching struggling readers in your classroom. In the show notes you will find links to the resources we enjoy and use with our students.


Resource Links:

1. FCRR Short vowel reading center 
2. FCRR Real & Nonsense word center 
3. FCRR CVC make words & pictures 
4. Really Good Stuff teaching guide with short vowel word family pictures 
5. Orton Gillingham Educator's Guide *
6. The Multisensory Language Triangle 
7. Short Vowels Videos Playlist
8. The Measured Mom vowel picture sort 
9. Short Vowels practice game on Boom Learning (created by Shannon)
10. Short Vowel Word Family lists 
11. Vowels and Consonants Teaching Presentation (created by Shannon)
12. Short Vowels foldable 
13. Shannon's Short Vowel Teaching Units & Lesson Plans

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When was it that you first felt like you were a reading teacher who made the reading "magic" happen? When did you start to see growth from your students? What was the difference in your instruction or approach? 

In this episode, Shannon and Mary describe their development as literacy teachers.    They talk about the "moment when it clicked" and they figured out the magic of how to teach someone how to read.

Listen to this episode to learn more about the hosts and figure out their secrets to reading success.

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In this Wondering Wednesday podcast episode, Donna Reish explains the various areas of language arts instruction for each grade level—what to focus on, what to continue with, and how to move through language arts grade-by-grade. She touches on the essentials of language arts in the areas of listening, phonics, reading, spelling, comprehension, writing, grammar, oral communication, literature, and penmanship.

Donna Reish, curriculum author and parenting/homeschool speaker, answers readers’ questions about bringing an elementary student up to grade level in reading during the summer. In this episode, Donna helps parents learn what to focus on in bringing their child to reading fluency, including terminology, phonics programs, reader selections, and steps in helping children learn to read during the summer school break. She has many links to help parents find the phonics program, readers, and methods that will work best for them and their children.

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