
Sound Walls
03/24/22 • 52 min
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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:
- Transitioning from Word Walls to Sound Walls (Reading Rockets)
- Understanding the How and Why of Sound Walls (Tools4Reading)
- Implementing a Sound Wall
- Sound Wall Instruction and Template (Louisiana Literacy)
- Timothy Shanahan: Should We Build a Word Wall or Not?
- Sound Walls video (Pattan)
- Putting Sound Walls to Practice
- Word Walls, Sound Walls, What's the Difference?
- Setting up a sound wall (Edutopia)
- Uncovering the Logic of English (*Amazon affiliate link)
- Christina's Instagram @literacywithmrs.e
- Christina's TpT store
Hot Logic Mini Oven https://amzn.to/3jO2C4l (*Amazon affiliate link)
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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:
- Transitioning from Word Walls to Sound Walls (Reading Rockets)
- Understanding the How and Why of Sound Walls (Tools4Reading)
- Implementing a Sound Wall
- Sound Wall Instruction and Template (Louisiana Literacy)
- Timothy Shanahan: Should We Build a Word Wall or Not?
- Sound Walls video (Pattan)
- Putting Sound Walls to Practice
- Word Walls, Sound Walls, What's the Difference?
- Setting up a sound wall (Edutopia)
- Uncovering the Logic of English (*Amazon affiliate link)
- Christina's Instagram @literacywithmrs.e
- Christina's TpT store
Hot Logic Mini Oven https://amzn.to/3jO2C4l (*Amazon affiliate link)
Daily Harvest (Get $35 off your first box when you use this link)
COME JOIN THE CONVERSATION!
Our WebsiteFacebookInstagramClubhouseShannon's TpT Store
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- Getting Ready to Read by Jo Fitzpatrick (*Amazon affiliate link)
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- Shannon's Phonemic Awareness resources
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