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Mary Dahlgren, president of tools 4 reading, author of Kid Lips, national LETRS trainer, and sound wall expert. Today, we are honored to have with us Dr. I'm conducting today's podcast for my native New Orleans, channeling the heart of Voyager Sopris Learning ® in Dallas, TX. We are so excited to have you back with us. Welcome back to the EDVIEW360 podcast series. Dahlgren is a national LETRS ® trainer and our guest today on EDVIEW360. Mary Dahlgren, president of tools 4 reading and author of Kid Lips® and Phoneme/Grapheme instructional cards for elementary, special education, and English language learner teachers. The more rapidly we can build those networks, the more rapidly students can begin reading independently. We know we have this area in our brain we want to build those neural networks. Teaching them about the 44 speech sounds of the language it’s like teaching the multiplication tables. Setting up sound walls has to do with the 44 speech sounds of the language not just the 26 letters of the alphabet. We were great at talking about the prints and syllable types and teaching kids about that decoding piece but we'd left out the phonology. Mary Dahlgren: We rarely acknowledge the sounds of our language in general education classrooms.
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Learn why you should retire your word wall and how to implement an effective sound wall during this informative podcast.
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Mary Dahlgren will share why it is so important to implement a sound wall in the classroom In this podcast, literacy and sound wall expert Dr. Word walls are still used in many classrooms, requiring students to match print to speech instead of sound. Dahlgren’s passion is to help everyone involved with reading instruction to feel equipped and confident in providing the highest-quality instruction possible. She also is president of The Reading League Oklahoma Chapter.Īccording to the science of reading, students need to master phonemic awareness skills before they match the sounds to print, and phonics instruction is needed before students begin decoding text. We know this information, yet A–Z alphabetical Dahlgren is a founding board member of a school for adjudicated youth, SeeWorth Academy, organized by the late Chief Justice Alma Wilson. She is the former executive director of Payne Education Center, a nonprofit teacher training center in Oklahoma. She also is a national trainer for the distinguished teacher curriculum LETRS ® ( Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling). She is the author of a highly successful phonics tool kit which includes Kid Lips and Phoneme-Grapheme Instructional Cards for elementary, special education, and English language learner teachers. She is an experienced educator with more than 25 years in the field of education having served as a dyslexia therapist, elementary classroom teacher, international literacy consultant, and author. Mary Ellis Dahlgren, Ed.D., is president of Tools 4 Reading.