
Back to School
09/05/19 • 28 min
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:
- SMART Goals (lol)
- Fundations Phonics Program
- our Sight Words Episode
- our Short Vowels episode
- our Long Vowels episode
- our R-Controlled Vowels episode
- our Vowel Teams episode
- our Syllables episode
- our Phonemic Awareness episode
- Kindergarten activities for books about different colors
Follow Us:
Our Revised WebsiteFacebookInstagramShannon's TpT Store
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:
- SMART Goals (lol)
- Fundations Phonics Program
- our Sight Words Episode
- our Short Vowels episode
- our Long Vowels episode
- our R-Controlled Vowels episode
- our Vowel Teams episode
- our Syllables episode
- our Phonemic Awareness episode
- Kindergarten activities for books about different colors
Follow Us:
Our Revised WebsiteFacebookInstagramShannon's TpT Store
Previous Episode

Hands On Learning in the Summer
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.
Resource Links:
NOTE: As an Amazon Associate program, we earn a small amount from your qualifying purchases. We'd appreciate if you would use our links to help support the podcast.*
- What Mom's Love blog with 101 ideas to encourage learning with chalk
- Letter Sounds (Beginning, Middle, Ending sound Or or Sight Word with a spray bottle)
- Pool Noodle games - CVC stack and knock over the rings
- Jumping Rope games with rhymes! :) Anna Banana*
- Sight Word Soccer - label cones with words
- Construction Site- Alphabet Rocks Scoop and Spell - Spell Name, Match Letters, Spell CVC words, etc
- Sight Word Pebbles
- Fly Swatter I Spy (beginning sound), or letter/sound correspondence
- Baby Pool - Foam letters in the water and then match the letters to chalk letters (I Can Teach My Child.com)
Follow Us:
Our WebsiteInstagramShannon's TpT Store
Next Episode

Students Need Systematic, Explicit Phonics - ILA says so!
Mary discusses a brief that has been put out by the International Literacy Association that shares information about how phonics instruction must be systematic and explicit as part of an overall efficient, effective, and timely reading curriculum.
Resource Links:
- Education Week July 18, 2019 Influential Reading Group Makes it Clear: Students Need Systematic, Explicit Phonics
- Brief from ILA Meeting the Challenges of Early Phonics Instruction
- Hard Words Why Aren't Kids Being Taught to Read (APM report by Emily Hanford)
- our Episode about reading terms: Phoneme and Grapheme
- our Episode about Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
COME JOIN THE CONVERSATION!
Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramShannon's TpT Store
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/reading-teachers-lounge-40073/back-to-school-1790336"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to back to school on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy