For The Love Of Literacy with Bruce Howlett
For the Love of Literacy provides podcasts about the exciting advances in literacy instruction, from morphology and orthography (the spelling system), to meaningful sight word memorization, and sentence construction and comprehension. We focus on the often overlooked aspects of literacy and their links to language development.
We tie learning to read, spell and writing to their roots in spoken language. This makes teaching and learning these abilities much easier because literacy learning is driven by language learning. The major components of spoken language plus vocabulary knowledge strongly predicting and largely determining growth in reading, spelling and writing.
Our guests are not just knowledgeable the links between language and language but know how to implement this learning in the classroom.
You will hear from noted researchers including Linnea Ehri, Marcia Henry and Peter Bowers as well as teachers who have developed lessons that engage students and enrich language abilities. Check back weekly to discover more Fulfilling Literacy Lessons and Clarifying conversations. Feel free to reach out to me at Bruce@ReadingShift.com.
For The Love Of Literacy with Bruce Howlett
Latest Episodes
Beyond the Alphabetic Principle: Bringing Etymology into Literacy Instruction - Anya Maloney
Why doesn’t sounding out a word always tell us how to spell it? Bruce Howlett welcomes speech-language pathologist and literacy specialist Anya Maloney to explore common misconceptions about the alphabetic principle and how English spelling wor...
Infusing England's Rigid Phonics Mandates with Morphological Word Study - Andrea Dalland, Tanya Watt, Jo Johnson & Susannah Thorne
England's phonics‑first mandates struggle to engage all learners, leaving about a third of students with limited reading abilities—even when they have received years of instruction. The mandates miss opportunities to build vocabulary, compre...
The Word Mapping Project: Engaging Every Learner in Vocabulary, Morphology, Spelling & Writing Instruction - Sean Morrisey
Do you want to get excited about teaching words, vocabulary, spelling, and writing instruction? Do you want to see your students embrace these subjects as enriching and empowering abilities — not just another academic task? Sean Morrissey point...
Building Executive Function Skills into Literacy Sessions - Beth Coppoc Gunshor
Do your students struggle to stay focused, avoid distractions, begin and complete assignments, or remember directions? Would you like to help them resist impulses, switch between tasks, and manage their thoughts and behaviors?Speech-Lang...
Two Dyslexic Adults: What We Wish Our Teachers Knew About Language and Learning: Sara Lee talks with Marie Foley & Bruce Howlett
“If only we, as dyslexics, had learned how the English writing system works—from words to sentences—when we were in elementary school! Maybe we wouldn’t have struggled with language and literacy.” For decades, non-dyslexic individua...
