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Our journey through the vowels of fan engagement continues! We're serving up another dish in this episode, with the main entree being E for Express. How you express yourself is critically important in making sure you're unique AND that you have some overlap with previously successful work. Douglas Adams joins us from the great beyond (or rather, he won't, because he didn't believe in it) to aid us in understanding how to make sure you're being YOU when you craft content so that fans know what they're getting in for and why they should sign up.

While Elliot, Lisa, Cowy and Billy are deciding whether they cross the river by building a bridge or digging a tunnel, they learn about short vowels. 

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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:

1. Transitioning from Word Walls to Sound Walls (Reading Rockets)
2. Understanding the How and Why of Sound Walls (Tools4Reading)
3. Implementing a Sound Wall
4. Sound Wall Instruction and Template (Louisiana Literacy)
5. Timothy Shanahan: Should We Build a Word Wall or Not?
6. Sound Walls video (Pattan)
7. Putting Sound Walls to Practice
8. Word Walls, Sound Walls, What's the Difference?
9. Setting up a sound wall (Edutopia)
10. Uncovering the Logic of English (*Amazon affiliate link)
11. Christina's Instagram @literacywithmrs.e
12. Christina's TpT store

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Get comfortable and listen to a short stories using short vowel sounds in today's “Music To Our Ears” episode. Can you come up with a short vowel short story of your own? Then we will rock out to the Vowels Song. Join the fun!
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Today in "Music To Our Ears," we are practicing the long and short O vowel sounds, and then we will sing along to "Stop and Go." Ready? Let's go!
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In today's "Music To Our Ears" episode we are learning about long and short vowel sounds. Do you know how they sound? You can practice them with us, and then sing along to "Apples and Bananas."
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On this episode, Cyrus is joined by Kaushik Roy, Author of the new book 'Alphabetica: A Satire on Majoritarianism', and the President Brand Strategy & Marketing Communication, Reliance Industries. Cyrus talks to Kaushik about his new book, what made him write it, drawing parallels from the book to real life, the universal themes in the book, and more. They talk about the plot, the different factions and alphabets in the book, and tons more. They also discuss Kaushik's work in advertising, being inducted into the International

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Comment: One can notice a marked improvement in this singer's voice in a relatively short period of time. The high notes are easier and the low notes not as heavy.

Quote: Self-Regulation: the inherent ability of an organism to recognize and respond favorably to a congenial environment; a self-corrective tendency which when conditions are right, takes place spontaneously. ...Self-regulation is an intrinsic characteristic of natural movement and can best be described as vocal self-interest. When exercises selected during training are thoughtfully constructed, the organic system will move spontaneously and willingly - it perceives that its best interests are being served and responds accordingly. The tendency of an organism to regulate itself, therefore, is simply a response which indicates that the demands placed upon it can be successfully carried out within the framework of its movement potential. Organic systems may thus be said to be capable of recognizing a distinction between use and abuse. (A Dictionary of Vocal Terminology)

Comment: You can hear the over dominant chest voice here. Cornelius is using the oo vowel to temper the aggressiveness of the chest voice.

Quote: ...the physical contour of the vocal folds is strongly influenced by certain vowel phonemes...although these muscle systems are involuntary, they can be stimulated by means of appropriately selected patterns of pitch, intensity and vowel, and made to respond in a spontaneous, yet predictable, manner, making it possible to control laryngeal muscular activity through the construct of a vocal exercise. (Essays on the Nature of Singing)

Comment: This lessons shows the importance of making the head voice dominant, especially in the upper passaggio and how different vowels have different register balances.

Quote: The essential factor in singing is lyricism, and it is the so-called "head" register which infuses the voice with its lyrical properties. Thus, to drop out this mechanism and CHANGE to the "chest" register only serves to destroy the properties of lyricism which should be present even when the action of the "chest" register is dominant. In a correctly functioning registration the upper of the two registers never ceases to be an active participant, and vice versa. The concept of the register function as "changing" from one to the other is invalid. A correct technique always finds its expression in a DUAL registration in which the ratio and proportion of tension shared between them are ADDED and SUBTRACTED. (The Free Voice)

Comment: Smoothing out the different vowels to make fast singing with words more easy.

Quote: Acoustically, each vowel is defined and resonated because of a special arrangement, concentration and distribution of energy within the overtone structures. When one conceptualizes a vowel, the appropriate muscle systems adjust the vocal tract (the trachea, the larynx, the laryngo- and oropharynges and the mouth) so that they energize certain frequencies while suppressing others. In this way it becomes possible to both "color" and resonate a great many vowel phonemes over an extensive pitch range. (Essays on the Nature of Singing)

Comment: Ascending arpeggios to bring the head voice quality down making the voice more lyric. Change of vowels on a single note, the sequence bringing a more lyric quality into the other vowels.

Quote: Since under certain conditions the physical dimensions of the vocal folds adjust to the acoustic properties of the surrounding resonators, it is apparent that vowel manipulation, especially when used in conjunction with the principles known to govern registration, is both theoretically and practically significant to vocal pedagogy. (A Dictionary of Vocal Terminology)

Comment: The difference is astonishing. Better vibrato, better vowels, more flexibility, more lyric high notes without losing the full baritone quality.

Quote: The fact is, a truly beautiful tone finds its expression not only in qualities of sheer loveliness, but in complete vocal, that is, functional, freedom. It is almost self-evident, granted a musical personality, that all tones truly free are either beautiful or legitimately expressive. Deeper insight into this phase of the vocal problem will be gained if a new type of equation is set up. This equation must enable both teacher and student to recognize the intrinsic healthfulness of tones toward which they may be drawn quality wise, and to discover their true value as expressed in terms of comparable vocal freedom. (The Free Voice)

Comment: Resonance adjustment conditioned by the vowel. Changing vowels on a single tone.

Quote:  ...control over the resonance adjustment through its correlative association with the vowel becomes a consideration of major importance. ...The intent here [singing different vowel sounds on a single tone] should be to have each successive vowel flow logically out of the position formed by its predecessor while maintaining a solid underscoring of the basic resonance. (The Free Voice)

This is the beginning of season 2! Shannon and Mary catch up about what they have been up to during the summer and how they're getting ready for the new school year.

Resource Links:

1. SMART Goals (lol)
2. Fundations Phonics Program
3. our Sight Words Episode
4. our Short Vowels episode
5. our Long Vowels episode
6. our R-Controlled Vowels episode
7. our Vowel Teams episode
8. our Syllables episode
9. our Phonemic Awareness episode
10. Kindergarten activities for books about different colors

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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.

Resource Links:

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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