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Reading Teachers Lounge - Sound Walls

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:

  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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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

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!

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Shannon and Mary chat about the recent debate in the science of reading community about whether phonemic awareness drills without letters are a worthwhile exercise for readers. They describe activities they've done with struggling readers to build phonemic awareness, and they talk about the use of those activities as a part of Tier 1 reading instruction.
Episode Resources:

  1. Research article
  2. Response from David Kilpatrick and others
  3. Timothy Shanahan: RIP to Advanced Phonemic Awareness
  4. I Think I was Wrong about Phonemic Awareness (a Teacher's perspective)
  5. Heggerty Resources
  6. Phonological Awareness Assessment
  7. YouTube discussion about the topic among other reading teachers
  8. Phonemic proficiency
  9. Reading Meetings with Mark and Molly
  10. Getting Ready to Read by Jo Fitzpatrick (*Amazon affiliate link)
  11. Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick (*Amazon affiliate link)
  12. Shannon's Phonemic Awareness resources

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Shannon chats with Sarah Rich, CEO of Just Right Reader, about her company that provides decodable readers to students, families, teachers, and schools. Sarah and Shannon talk about how decodable texts are important for the right reading practice for students. Sarah provides details about their mission to make reading fun and for students to learn to read with engaging decodables that are representative of students in America's schools.
Episode Resources:

  1. Decodable Book Collection from Just Right Reader
  2. Sample Decodables
  3. about Just Right Reader
  4. Family Literacy Boxes
  5. Just Right Reader on Instagram
  6. Just Right Reader on Facebook
  7. Just Right Reader's Phonics Scope and Sequence
  8. Decodable Books Explained
  9. Choosing and Using Decodable Texts by Wiley Blevins (*Amazon affiliate link)

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