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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
Intervention in the Upper Grades
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Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Season 6
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Episode 3
Shannon and Mary meet with Kionna Squires (@DaLiteracyLady) to talk about the challenges facing older struggling readers. During the discussion, they explain how meeting students where they are IS rigorous and the right thing to do for our readers. They also share ideas for boosting student engagement and their favorite activities for upper grade reading intervention.
RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE
- Texas Center for Learning Disabilities: Effective Reading Interventions for Upper Elementary Students
- Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4-9 (What Words Clearinghouse)
- EdWeek: How Schools Can Support Older Students Who Lag in Reading
- Reading Rockets: Best Practices in Planning Interventions for Students with Reading Problems
- Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by Wiley Blevins *Amazon affiliate link
- Florida Center for Reading Research 4th and 5th Grade Activities
- Assessing Reading Multiple Measures (Core Literacy) *Amazon affiliate link
- Structured Literacy Interventions edited by Louise Spear-Swerling *Amazon affiliate link
- Raffi songs
- Moon Dogs books
- The Big Secret Episode from Season 1
- Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners) by Anita L. Archer *Amazon affiliate link
- Book a free call with us to tour our Patreon and see if it's right for you!
- Get Literacy Support through our Patreon
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