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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
Building Vocabulary
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Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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Shannon and Mary focus their conversation on how to build students' vocabularies. They share less effective methods used in the past and how they've evolved their vocabulary instruction to help students the most. In the chat, they reference ideas from Bringing Words to Life by Isabel Beck.
Episode Links for Resources mentioned:
- How do we teach the Language Comprehension strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope?
- Word Building: 20 root words and 14 prefixes= 100,000 words (Dyslexia Associates)
- Academic Word Finder (AchievetheCore.org)
- Word Study that Sticks: Best Practices by Pamela Koutrakos *Amazon affiliate link*
- Llamophones by Janik Coat
- How to Teach Vocabulary for Reading Comprehension
- Routine for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction
- Morphological Awareness Test
- Research update: Morphemes, Meaning, and Dyslexia
- 10 Quick Vocabulary Activities (from the Twitter teacher)
- Vocabulary Routine Cards: (source unknown)
- ReWordify to locate Tier 2 vocabulary
- Build Vocabulary
- Frayer model:
- Thinking map templates:
- FCRR 2nd and 3rd grade Vocabulary activities
- FCRR 4th and 5th grade Vocabulary activities
- Google Slides Forced Copy of Shannon's created vocabulary slide show
- Google Docs Forced Copy of Shannon's crea
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