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For The Love Of Literacy with Bruce Howlett

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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 [email protected]. 

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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 theory of orthographic mapping to emphasize the role that morphology plays not just in the four initial phases but when words are stored in sight word memory directly - without needing to be sounded out. The spelling of morphemes is critical to developing sight w...
What do adolescents need from a literacy intervention? Can you just take an intervention for younger pupils and use it with teenagers? Dr Katharine Barden, a literacy specialist and former linguistics researcher, discusses why she created LIfTT, the Literacy Intervention for Teens and Tweens, to meet the specific literacy needs of adolescents. Katharine is passionate about making multicomponent literacy instruction easy to implement by providing ready-to-use resources accompanied by detailed ...
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 works. Anya explains how borrowing, pronunciation changes, and other historical influences shaped a system that represents pronunciation, meaning, and word history. Through examples of unexpected spellings and expansive word families, she shows how etymolo...
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, comprehension and curiosity, essential literacy skills. Meet a team of educators working to enrich instruction with Structured Word Inquiry, which blends morphology and spelling. This approach blends deep inquiry into words, offering a meaning‑rich alterna...
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 points the way with The Word Mapping Project, a series of clear, consistent 35-minute lessons that integrate these language and literacy abilities using cognitive learning principles that make instruction stick. Sean, a school psychologist who became a...
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