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A School Year Rich in Words - Ann Whiting & Lyn Anderson

To comply with IDA’s current definition of Structured Literacy, "A School Year Rich in Words" will interest you. It shows how to “systematic integration” of phonology, morphology, semantics, and syntax orthography.
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The three that all early literacy instructors should focus on is Berninger's Three Word Forms, POM. Integrated Phonemic, orthographic and morphological instruction has overwhelming support among researchers.Sound, symbol and meaning, phonemes, graphemes and morphemes always together. It's easy.

Also state mandates have never led to long term improvement in reading comprehension scores.

Varying the conditions of learning, makes that learning more effective. Here ⬇️ is a description of how it works from an experiment by Kerr & Booth (1978).

How can you get pupils to think harder about their learning?

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Oh dear indeed. Unfortunately, ‘getting kids in and behaving’ is exactly what can burn them out - esp autistic & ADHD children & teens, whose experience of school attendance can be much harsher & more draining than for their neurotypical peers, as new research shows.

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Tonight’s The Reading League Talk by Sue Hegland, author of Beneath the Surface of Words, who will be introduced by Linnea Ehri, expands on a statement made by Dr. Ehri on this For the Love of Literacy podcast. This talk will explain the role that written morphemes, morphographs.

The Number of Sessions Children With Developmental Language Disorder Retrieve Words Relates Positively to Retrieval After Extended Post-Training Delays Purpose: For adults and children with typical development, the number of training sessions a target item is successfully retrieved relates positi...

"Current results suggest that children with #DLD should successfully retrieve word forms and meanings across multiple sessions to support post-training retention."

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On the relationship between word reading ability and spelling ability - Reading and Writing The goal of the present study was to test theories about the extent to which individual differences in word reading align with those in spelling and the extent to which other cognitive and linguistic ...

"Our results suggest that word reading and #spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to #reading than to spelling."

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Just like the 5 billion spent on Reading First and "scientifically based reading instruction", millions on LETRS and Science of Reading. Let's look at the upper strands of Scarborough's Rope and put oral language and reasoning up front.

Phonology is a lower order language skill. Morphemes link to word meaning, are tied tightly to vocabulary growth and grapheme- morpheme relationships in English are much stronger than phoneme-grapheme associations..

YouTube video by Planet Word Eyes on Reading: What’s Next in the Science of Reading? with Mark Seidenberg and Maryellen MacDonald

Instead of bringing up this minor point about word solving strategies how about responding to Mark's devastating remarks about overuse of structured literacy and explicit phonics with Emily Hanford youtu.be/mfeFw1ki2bU?...

Do you know that Reading Recovery is being totally revised with Solidy's effective phonics and 100 sight words plus an efficient phonemic awareness approach. The three cueing is being transformed into sophisticated word solving strategies for unfamiliar polymorphemic words.n

I virtually attended Marie Foley’s Making Sense Of Words With Morphology micro workshop, and I would highly recommend it to anybody looking to “discover how visual narrative and Structured Word Inquiry can help students make sense of the writing system.” www.mariefoleyreading.com/workshops

Marie knows better than nearly anyone how dyslexics make sense of the spelling and writing system and why phonology first approaches are of limited help.

You can't spell Science of Reading without IES. Created by Congress in 2002. Dedicated to providing accessible scientific research into effective educational practices. Critical to reading research.

Cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences = cuts to research, data & tools that help kids—especially struggling readers & students w/ disabilities. Tell Congress: Protect IES funding. #StandUpForReadingResearch
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With falling NAEP scores & research showing that sentence writing is essential to reading growth, let's give students a change to perform at a higher level - even if they are struggling with decoding. Yes, writing success can motivate struggling readers!
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You are using is current research if it conforms to:
1. Share's universal combining principle - symbols + phonemes = morphemes to make words
2. Duke and Cartwright's Active View- upgrades "The Rope"
3. Wolf's POSSuM in each lesson - phonemes, graphemes, morphemes, word meaning, sentence writing

You are using is current research if it conforms to:
1. Share's universal combining principle - symbols + phonemes = morphemes to make words
2. Duke and Cartwright's Active View- upgrades "The Rope"
3. Wolf's POSSuM in each lesson - phonemes, graphemes, morphemes, word meaning, sentence writing

Integrated language-literacy builds skills using the universal combining principle - symbols & sounds builds meaningful morphemes - the core of words. Words combined into phrases & sentences. The first & every lesson in Sparking the Reading Shift raises expectations & motivation. ReadingShift.com

What happened to Mississippi Miracle which didn't progress in this year's NAEP scores.
If TRL is researched based why focus on the outlier instead of the other 49 states? Why no progress in states with TRL or LETRS training? Rachael Gabriel shows that for 40 years phonics focused efforts fade.

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How Stressing Preschoolers and Kindergarteners Could Lead to Mental Health Problems - Nancy Bailey's Education Website There has been a pushdown of academic expectations for years, and Americans should be asking how much stress this causes all students, especially our youngest learners. If a child struggles in prescho...

Children are under a lot of stress. This shouldn't include pressure to read before they're developmentally ready. Instead, please read engaging picture books together, especially the funny ones, and back off the academic expectations. nancyebailey.com/2023/03/13/h...

Interested in morphology and its powerful influence on decoding, spelling and vocabulary development? Check out the work of Peter Bowers and Structured Word Inquiry. I attended his workshop last summer and it simplified and clarified my approach to literacy. drive.google.com/file/d/1Ga9U...

Reading Recovery is being redesigned "to make Marie Clay roll over in her grave" into an efficient program using Solity's 64 GPCs, Maryanne Rice's optimum 10 to 15 hours of PA with letters, adding a few decodables & rejecting leveled text. If only O-G and Wilson would align with current research?

Reading Recovery is being redesigned "make Marie Clay roll over in her grave" into an efficient program with Solity's 64 GPCs, and adding Rice's optimum 10 to 15 hours of PA with letters, adding a few decodables & rejecting leveled text. How is your method conforming to current research?

Word frequencies. word freq word freq believe 240 their 68 friend 262 being 158 friends 331 either 407 die 432 received 487 married 547 neither 653 cried 554 seeing 729 tried 567 receive 847 replied 593 eight 864 quiet 665 foreign 1333 chief 692 weight 1475 view 701 seized 1935 lie 752 height 1945 piece 756 receiving 2193 ladies 795 weird 2213

How often does the rule 'i before e' actually apply?

In our database of 30k+ words, 'i before e' occurs 902 times compared to 'e before i', which occurs 226 times.
However, if you look at weighted word frequencies (how often a word actually occurs in English), it's a more interesting story.

Reading Sentences with Complex Words on Day One Free Upgrades, Sample Lessons and Stories Last Chance for Free Upgrade – We continue to receive lots of requests for upgrades to the latest version of S... Sparking the Reading Shift is designed to overcome two limitations that most foundational reading programs suffer from – low expectations and limited linguistic challenges. Timothy Shanahan recently w...

Make noticeable improvements in reading, spelling and sentence writing abilities tomorrow. Read the new Sparking the Reading Shift newsletter. It addresses the two biggest limitations of most reading instruction - low expectations and limited linguistic challenges. readingshift.com/so/0dPKPQWLo...

The #1 goal of literacy is to read & write sentences. Sentences assign meaning to words & strongly predict & determine texts comprehension. Instead of starting with letters and sounds start with a sentence, break it into phrases, morphemes & graphemes then manipulate the parts. More ReadingShift.com