For The Love Of Literacy
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.
Episodes
24 episodes
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...
Vocabulary Development Through Morphology, Semantics and Complex Text - Elfrieda Hiebert
If your students read accurately but with limited fluency, comprehension or interest then Elfrieda “Freddy” Hiebert’s talk will be of great benefit. Freddy summarizes her decades of research, showing how vocabulary depth and richness are key co...
Connecting Math and Literacy Learning Difficulties - Meghan Hicks & Jennifer Petrich
Many students who struggle with literacy also struggle with math. Understanding the number system requires engaging linguistic, cognitive, executive functions and conceptual understanding -- just like literacy. Me...
Enriching Structured Literacy Through Integrated Word Study - Sarah Mitchell
Why do so many students continue to struggle with spelling and writing even after years of phonics instruction? In this episode, Sarah Mitchell explores the missing layer between decoding instruction and deeper literacy transfer: integrated wor...
Scripts, Sentences and Structures: Helping Students Unlock Meaning - Louise Hewitt, Meghan Hicks & Mary Beth Steven
Teaching about morphemes (the meaningful components of words), sentence structure (syntax) and grammar (the framework for organizing words and sentences) isn’t hard, once you learn about two new resources: Mary Beth Steven’s Dramatic Scr...
Meet the Students (A.K.A. Humans) of the Boring (into words) Scholars Collective - Sara Leland & Students
Title: Meet the Students / Humans of the Boring (into words) Scholars CollectiveListen Sara Leland’s students, five humans who have dyslexia, ADHA and/or autism. With Sara’s guidance and support they grew to love literacy. They jo...
The Sentence Pathway to Decoding and Comprehension -- Xiuhong Tong & S. Hélène Deacon
If you have ever wondered why your students struggle with word reading, or read accurately but with limited comprehension, then you may want to flip your approach to reading instruction. Start at the sentence level by using Xiuhong Tong and Hél...
Four Powerful Word, Sentence, Text and Cognitive Routines for Teaching Writing - Meghan Hicks
Meghan Hicks returns to talk about how teaching structure at the word, sentence, and text levels can help students make sense of the writing process. We often discuss literacy as a system and the importance of students understanding how ...
Respecting the Social, Emotional & Academic Needs of Dyslexic Individuals -- Bonnie Feeney & Jen Petrich
Bonnie Feeney, a dyslexic mother and Jen Petrich, her PhD neuroscientist daughter discuss dyslexia from a unique perspective—one of from a journey of personal discovery and the other from studying brain science. Hear how their journeys came tog...
Co-Creating a Community of Sentence Scholars - Rebecca Marsh & Meghan Hicks
“Just thinking about grammar and syntax raises my anxiety.” Whether you share that reaction or you just feel shaky on some aspects of writing and sentence structure, you aren’t alone. Such a complex topic is not mastered in a one-and-done cl...
Spelling-Meaning Connections for Memory and Comprehension - Kimberly Murphy with Peter Bowers
“Spell what you mean, not just what you hear,” is researcher and speech pathologist Kim Murphy’s advice to students. While spelling instruction often focuses on pronunciation, spelling-meaning instruction makes so much more sense to students an...
Language Enriching Literacy Ideas for DLD - Kathleen Love and Beth C. Gunshor
Language issues are a surprisingly common source of reading, spelling and writing difficulties. Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is impacting students in your classrooms and offices. Listen to Speech-Language Pathologists Kathleen Love and...
Fostering Fascination With Words & Sentences - Mary Beth Steven, Lisa Barnett, Skot Caldwell
Three experienced teachers show how to get even your most resistant students to become fascinated by words and sentences. They explain how to turn memory-draining spelling homework into an activity that enriches vocabulary, sight word...
Building a Strong Foundation for Structured Literacy Teaching - Sue Hegland & Liisa Freure
Would you like to:understand how the English spelling system, or orthography, can be taught in so it makes sense to students and teachers, alike? integrate morphemes, the meaningful core of every word, into your readin...
A School Year Rich in Words - Ann Whiting & Lyn Anderson
A wonderful plan for teachers, starting with five-year-old students on up to secondary school, to create a community of students who love exploring language, starting with the written and spoken word.Based on Ann Whiting and Lyn Ander...
How English Spelling Really Works - Jennifer Petrich & Brad Johnson
Do you know how English spelling really works? Go beneath the surface of words to find the connections between orthography (spelling system) and morphology, the meaningful core of every word in every language. While sound-symbol relationships i...
High Frequency Word Project - Rebecca Loveless and Fiona Hamilton
The High Frequency Word Project, is an explicit, systematic resource that teaches the 130 high frequency words using strategies that make them stick. Each of these critical words is taught on multiple levels, from sounds ...
How Dyslexics Make Sense of Written English - Marie Foley & Sara Lee
If you think you know how dyslexia affects children and adults please listen to this moving and uplifting podcast. Dyslexia causes confusion way beyond decoding. Roadblocks frequently arise during vocabulary, sight word and morpho...
Transform Read Alouds into Language and Reading Comprehension Lessons - Trina Spencer and Doug Peterson
Would you like to turn your Read Alouds into a dynamic lesson that improves language comprehension - the upper strands of Scarborough's Rope - as well as reading comprehension and sentence writing? Trina Spencer and Doug Peterson not only have ...
Marcia Henry and Deb Glaser - Learning to Love Language - From Words to Meaningful Sentences
Learn how educators can enrich lessons and develop a deep appreciation for written and spoken language for students in all grades. Learn that spelling, morphology, vocabulary development and sentence writing can be taught, not as separate subje...
Sight Words and Morphology Linnea Ehri Pete Bowers Kenn Apel
Listen to three of the most important voices in literacy, Linnea Ehri, Peter Bowers and Kenn Apel, talk about the important role of morphology in reading, vocabulary, spelling and sight word development. Linnea Ehri updates her t...
Vocabulary and Morphology using Structured Word Inquiry
Vocabulary & Morphology using Structured Word Inquiry by Lisa Barnett and Katie Squires is designed to help you implement lessons guided by the four essential questions of structured word inquiry. The book contains a teacher...
Morphology and SWI - English as a Sensible and Meaningful Spelling System
Jennifer Constantine and Kara Lee have written an implementation guide to one of the most exciting areas of literacy instruction - Structured Word Inquiry. They are the authors of Structured Word Inquiry – An Implementation Guide for Teache...
