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Jun 2022
13m 26s

Long and Short Vowels

Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Shannon and Mary share some new understandings they've discovered about the differences between long and short vowels. They chat about how they'll modify some phonics activities for students after discovering these new understandings. Episode Resources: The ABC's and All Their Tricks by Margaret M. Bishop (*Amazon affiliate link)our Season 1 episode about ... Show More
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