Reading Teachers Lounge Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi

We have a summer bonus episode for you!Shannon and Mary have Anna Geiger, the Measured Mom, join them in the lounge again to discuss the best evidence based practices that teachers can use to reach all readers. Anna's new book provides teachers and parents with a consolidated understanding of the Science of Reading findings.RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODEour Season 5 episode with Anna Geiger, about Orthographic MappingReach All Readers: Using the Science of ...

Shannon and Mary gather together to review the school year and close out the podcast season. They give updates on their personal and teaching lives and share their summer plans. Later they're joined by Kelsey (wifeteachermommy) to talk about Educate and Rejuvenate 2024.RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE Cox Campus K-3rd Structured Literacy Training programCERI certificationJoin us at Educate and Rejuvenate July 2024Kelsey's podcast episode wit...

Shannon and Mary chat with Nancy Young and Jan Hasbrouck about differentiation and the latest updates to the Ladder of Reading and Writing. Listeners will get a better understanding of WHY it's so important to make adjustments to curriculum, instruction, activities, and/or assessments in order to meet the various needs of their students.RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODEour season 4 episode with Nancy Youngour 2021 episode about the updates to the Ladder of Rea...

Shannon and Mary chat with critically acclaimed author and experienced actress & advocate Colette Hiller about ways to make word learning innovative and fun. Colette is releasing a new book titled Colossal Words for Kids, which combines educational poetry with vibrant illustrations to teach new words and related content knowledge. The book is delightful and so is Colette. Listen to this episode to gain creative ideas about how to help get students ex...

Shannon and Mary chat about how to best support learners with working memory challenges. This is a companion episode to a deep dive learning topic we went through with our Patreon community about Working Memory. Listeners to this episode will walk away with increased awareness about which students may have working memory challenges AND strategies to help those students during reading instruction.RECOMMENDED RESOURCES AND ONES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODEWorking Memory and L...

Shannon and Mary talk with Kelly Butler and Carla Stanford about professional learning that is meaningful. Kelly Butler worked with the Barksdale Reading Institute to bring about systems change in reading instruction in the state of Mississippi over the last twenty years. Kelly and Carla share about a free resource they're working on now called Reading Universe, which is a one-stop shop for teachers and interested stakeholders to learn about best practices in teaching reading.RE...