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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

Two reading teachers chat about the best methods for teaching short vowel sounds and teaching short vowel spelling patterns. They share their favorite free resources of short vowel activities. Each teacher explains why short vowel sounds are tricky for struggling readers and how to best provide instruction and intervention.

In this episode of the reading teachers lounge two reading teachers discuss different types of learning disabilities and activities to accommodate such learning struggles.

Two experienced reading specialists share practical assessment tools they use to measure their students' decoding skills

Two reading teachers discuss when they felt the magic of unlocking literacy with their students.