
Shared Reading
01/31/20 • 30 min
Shannon and Mary discuss another pillar in the Balanced Literacy Series: Shared Reading. Shared reading is interactive reading with teacher guided support. This is essential for helping struggling readers build their fluency and expression as well as explicitly modeling how proficient readers approach text. It can be done in whole group, small group, or with individualized instruction. Sometimes you will see shared reading experiences modeled with big books or books that are projected for the whole class to share.
Resource Links:
- Reading Rockets: Shared Reading
- Medium Shared Reading with Small Groups of Struggling Readers
- Reading Rockets PDF of Shared Reading
- Fountas & Pinnell Blog post about Shared Reading
- Reading A-Z Shared Reading
- What is Shared Reading and why is it so important? Blog post
- Read aloud, Shared reading, Guided Reading: What’s the difference? Blog post
- What is shared reading and how does it compare to close reading and other types of reading?
- NEWSELA
- Mary recommends: *Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: A Guide for Educators by Kelly B. Cartwright*
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Shannon and Mary discuss another pillar in the Balanced Literacy Series: Shared Reading. Shared reading is interactive reading with teacher guided support. This is essential for helping struggling readers build their fluency and expression as well as explicitly modeling how proficient readers approach text. It can be done in whole group, small group, or with individualized instruction. Sometimes you will see shared reading experiences modeled with big books or books that are projected for the whole class to share.
Resource Links:
- Reading Rockets: Shared Reading
- Medium Shared Reading with Small Groups of Struggling Readers
- Reading Rockets PDF of Shared Reading
- Fountas & Pinnell Blog post about Shared Reading
- Reading A-Z Shared Reading
- What is Shared Reading and why is it so important? Blog post
- Read aloud, Shared reading, Guided Reading: What’s the difference? Blog post
- What is shared reading and how does it compare to close reading and other types of reading?
- NEWSELA
- Mary recommends: *Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: A Guide for Educators by Kelly B. Cartwright*
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Reading Wars
Shannon and Mary talk about the recent discussions in the news and educational circles related to the reading wars. Additionally, based on listener questions, they recommend some resources for teachers who want to implement more structured literacy into their classroom practices.
Resource Links:
- Emily Hanford APM Reports Educate Podcast New Salvos in the Battles over Reading Instruction
- Emily Hanford APM Reports How a Flawed Idea is Teaching Millions of Kids to be Poor Readers
- Lucy Calkins' response: No One Gets to Own the Term "The Science of Reading"
- Need to practice Phonics instruction? *Speech to Print Workbook by Louisa Cook Moats and Bruce Rosow *
- Shannon recommends *Phonics A to Z by Wiley Blevins*
- Shannon recommends *Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by Wiley Blevins*
- Free webinars IDA Upper Midwest Branch
- IDA PDF Structured Literacy: Effective Instruction for Students with Dyslexia and Related Reading Difficulties
- Comprehensive List of Programs based on Structured Literacy
- Mary recommends Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick
- our Encoding episode (Season 1, episode 22): Encoding First, Decoding Second
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Spelling Tests: Good or Bad? with special guest Alison from Learning at the Primary Pond
Shannon and Mary speak with consultant and literacy specialist Allison from Learning at the Primary Pond all about spelling tests and best practices in phonics instruction.
Resource Links:
- blog post by Alison at Learning At the Primary Pond
- Literacy website by Alison
- Blog post about Best Practices in Phonics by Allison
- Words Their Way Primary Spelling Inventory
- Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, Sixth Edition*
- Words Their Way by Donald Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane Templeton, & Francine Johnson *
- Rethinking Phonics: Making the Best Decisions by: Karin Dahl, Patricia Grogan, Lora Lawson, and Patricia Scharer*
- Letter Lessons and First Words: Phonics Foundations That Work (The Research-informed Classroom) by Heidi Anne Mesmer & Nell K. Duke *
- A Fresh Look at Phonics, Grades K-2: Common Causes of Failure & Ingredients for Success by Wiley W. Blevins *
- Kindergarten scope and sequence from Alison
- first and second grade scope and sequence from Alison
- Learning at the Primary Pond FACEBOOK
- Learning at the Primary Pond INSTAGRAM
- Learning at the Primary Pond BLOG
- Learning at the Primary Pond WEBSITE
- Learning at the Primary Pond PINTEREST
- Learning at the Primary Pond TpT STORE
- Learning at the Primary Pond BOOM LEARNING DIGITAL GAMES
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