For The Love Of Literacy
Welcome Educators to For the Love of Literacy
We want to introduce you to the many wonderful and creative people who are turning innovative research into practical lessons. We’ll try to clarify many of today’s confusing topics, break down time-consuming silos and demystify critical components of language, including morphology, vocabulary, sentence construction and language comprehension.
Our goal is to show how to teach reading, spelling and writing as one integrated ability, making literacy easier to learn and saving hours a week for more enriching activities. Our focus won’t just be on students that receive help from Special education and reading teachers but also disengaged students reading at grade level.
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
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 morphology development, while learning spelling-meaning correspondences, sentence construction and how grammar reveals the meaning of words in sentences.
Marie Foley spend decades with undiagnosed dyslexia and reveals how she gained clarity and confidence about herself and written English. Marie tells of her long struggle with written English, from phonology to spelling and sentence construction and the effect it has had on her life. She also describes how discovering how the spelling and meaning of words are universally built from morphemes - the core of every word in all languages -- transformed her life, as did learning the functional relationships that words have grammatically.
Marie studied Real Spelling and Structured Word Inquiry which brought clarity to written words. In her 50s, Marie began working with our second guest, Sara Lee, to understand how the words in sentences function together to create meaning. Sara turns grammar into a form of comprehension and a foundation for writing in the most gentle and clear way.
Sara Lee is co-owner of Literacy Dr, a literacy intervention provider based out of Atlanta, Georgia, where she offers remediation and professional development in reading, writing, and grammar to a neurodiverse population of students. Sara holds a Masters in Applied Linguistics. Her background is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Structured Word Inquiry, and orthographic study. She also co-hosts Writing in the Trenches, an online support community for those who teach writing.
Marie Foley:
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/703558627526950
www.mariefoleyreading.com
Sara Lee:
www.theliteracydr.com
Writing in the Trenches Writers’ Support group: email Sara