Episode #10
8.10 Season Finale: Beyond Decoding
Shannon and Mary record their Season 8 finale, catching up on what they've been doing during the school year. They've both been busy with balancing personal and professional responsibilities, with work hours increasing for Shannon in tutoring and for Mary in advocacy work and supporting parents in IEP meetings. In their tutoring practices, they're both advancing beyond decoding work with many of their students, and during the discussion, they both realized they had adopted sentence-composing activities, inspired by 8.8's guest, Sara Lee. During the discussion, they detail how their students use literature-based model sentences and scaffolded imitation to build sentence skills, comprehension, and vocabulary. Shannon describes how she adds language support using English Linking Blocks and word lists. The discussion then highlights their excitement about UFLI's upcoming structured morphology curriculum, Word Origins (adapted from Australia). In the episode chat, they also touch on the AMIRA screener, Mary's recent SWI professional learning through Word Torque, and how they're both supporting students' math knowledge and skills in their tutoring. Listen in to catch up with these reading teachers and find out how their literacy instruction continues to evolve. 00:38 Life as Busy Parents 02:30 Tutoring and Advocacy Load 04:29 Discovering Sentence Composing 07:37 Harry Potter Hook 09:17 Linking Blocks Breakthrough 13:18 From Sentences to Writing 19:43 Structured Morphology Word Origins 22:58 Structured Morphology Wins 23:48 Curriculum Fidelity First 27:06 Word Origins Details 28:41 Australia Connections 31:17 Getting It Into Schools 32:15 Georgia Reading Screening 37:59 Math Fluency Intervention 40:22 Subitizing And Word Problems 47:12 Wrap Up Season Notes RECOMMENDED RESOURCES RELEVANT TO THE EPISODE: UFLI Word Origins news updates form UFLI Word Origins Information Hands-On English Linking Blocks Word Torque website Word Inquiry In Action Reviews of Curriculum - The Reading League GA Dyslexia Handbook related to updated laws for HS 307 Math Their Way Aubree Teaches - conceptual, visual math Aubree Teaches - store (this is not an affiliated link) Support the show Get Literacy Support through our Patreon Bonus Episodes access through your podcast app Bonus episodes access through Patreon Buy us a coffee Get a FREE Green Chef box using our link
