Reading Teachers Lounge
This is the Reading Teachers Lounge where listeners can eavesdrop on professional conversations between elementary reading teachers. We are passionate about literacy and strive to find strategies to reach all learners. Shannon and Mary are neighbors who realized that they were “literacy soul sisters” at a dinner in their Atlanta neighborhood. Once they started chatting about reading they haven’t really stopped. Come join the conversation.
Reading Teachers Lounge
Long and Short Vowels
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Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Season 4
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Episode 14
Shannon and Mary share some new understandings they've discovered about the differences between long and short vowels. They chat about how they'll modify some phonics activities for students after discovering these new understandings.
Episode Resources:
- The ABC's and All Their Tricks by Margaret M. Bishop (*Amazon affiliate link)
- our Season 1 episode about Short Vowels
- our Season 1 episode about Long Vowels
- our Season 4 episode about Sound Walls
- Shannon's Long and Short Vowel Soccer game
- Shannon's phonics units
- FCRR Long and Short Vowel picture sort
- FCRR Long and Short Vowel word sort
Hot Logic Mini Oven https://amzn.to/3jO2C4l (*Amazon affiliate link)
Daily Harvest (Get $35 off your first box when you use this link)
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