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.
For The Love Of Literacy
Connecting Math and Literacy Learning Difficulties - Meghan Hicks & Jennifer Petrich
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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.
- Meaning is as important to math learning as it does in literacy.
- Math that is taught as a series of isolated procedures, facts and “islands of knowledge” disconnected from meaning will make little sense - just as it does with reading.
- Math makes sense when students learn the structure of math, including its syntax and vocabulary, and approach it as a coherent system. This also diminishes math anxiety.
Bruce Howlett’s Seven Layers of Literacy Approach: ReadingShift.com
Megan Hicks: scienceofthesentence@gmail.com
The Sentence Studio www.scienceofthesentence.com
Jen Petrich:
- Literacy Dr website: https://www.theliteracydr.com
- · D.O.T.S. course info and registration: https://www.theliteracydr.com/pd/dots
- · Wednesdays with Literacy Dr (free drop-in) info and registration: https://www.theliteracydr.com/drop-in
- · Literacy Dr videos https://www.theliteracydr.com/videos
- · List of Resources for Further Learning