Are you ready for summer? We can't wait to play with our kids! Mary and Shannon have compiled some resources for hands-on summer play to practice important reading skills outside of the classroom.

We share some of the unexpected phonics lessons that students need that aren't always obvious in the curriculum guides. These important and necessary phonics lessons are essential in phonics instruction.

Two reading teachers share how to facilitate digital assignments in the reading classroom. We go into detail about using Moby Max, Imagine Learning, and Boom Learning with students.

Two reading teachers review the terms phoneme and grapheme. They're important terms for understanding the connections between letters and sounds.

Shannon and Mary discuss a professional article, "Why Phonics Teaching Must Change" published in Educational Leadership, September 2008 by Jeannine Herron. They talk about a different approach to teaching students to read. What if we focus more on encoding activities rather than starting with decoding activities?

Two reading teachers talk about pre-reading skills and other school readiness skills students need before going to Kindergarten. They also discuss preschool literacy and give resources for preschool literacy activities and curriculum.

What are executive functioning skills? In this episode, we will tell you what executive functioning is and what executive functioning activities are best for your students!

Today we are talking about authentic writing strategies. We discuss writing instructions for kids and reading instructions for kids as they go hand and hand. We hope you tune in!

In this episode, two reading teachers discuss mindfulness activities for kids in the classroom. Teaching metacognition activities and metacognition strategies in the classroom is so important and that is why we are talking about it in this episode.

In today's episode, two reading teachers discuss consonants! We discuss all things consonants including consonant blends, fun consonant activities, and more! Tune in to listen to the reading teachers lounge podcast!

Two reading teachers discuss phonemic awareness strategies with one another. Mary and Shannon give you great phonics-based activity ideas, phonemic awareness lessons, and more! Join the conversation!

We believe that learning to read is rigorous and teachers must continue to teach students where they are while developing the lofty learning goals.

Two reading teachers have a conversation about reversals of letters and numbers. B D reversals are very common. We talk about helpful b d reversal activities and give examples of how to teach this common mistake.

Two reading teachers talk about struggling readers in kindergarten, first, second, and third grade and the best coping mechanisms for struggling elementary readers.

Today in the reading teachers' lounge, we discuss dyslexic tendencies, dyslexia-friendly classroom activities, and more concerning the ins and outs of dyslexia. Join us on our journey to deepen your understanding of dyslexia.

Shannon and Mary share a multitude of ways to increase practice for your students as they learn sight words.

Join two reading teachers as they discuss the many moving parts of teaching syllables. In this episode, they discuss teaching syllables for kindergarten, first, second and third grade. They also discuss resources and fun syllable activities.

Two reading teachers will walk you through all things vowel teams in this episode. In this episode, we discuss different vowel team activities and show you some examples of vowel team anchor charts.

Ok, we have the basics of long and short vowels and consonants, but now, let's throw in the 'bossy r' and teach you to teach them to crack the code!

Two reading teachers chat about ideas for teaching long vowels. They discuss activities for long and short vowel sounds for kindergarten, first, second and third grade. After listening, teachers will understand the difference between long and short vowel sounds.