Updated Theory of Reading
I used to think that Reading and Spelling was largely based on visual memory. Yes, you needed to know the graphemes and phonemes but the
Explaining the “Why?” of Spelling
I just listened to a Reading League podcast with Dr. David Kilpatrick. Dr. Kilpatrick has helped translate Dr. Linnea Ehri’s excellent research on orthographic mapping,
Map Tricky Phonemes to Graphemes with a Listening Activity!
Help students at the “Partial Alphabetic” phase (Ehri, 1995) to map phonemes to graphemes by asking them to listen for words that represent a particular
The Science of Reading Instruction: Is My Word Reading Instruction Aligned with the Latest Research?
By Mona Voelkel, NBCT After reading, “The Science of Learning to Read Words: A Case for Systematic Phonics Instruction” by Linnea Ehri (Reading Research Quarterly,
MTV Series: “What’s Going on in this Picture?
A Thinking Routine adapted from Ron Ritchard’s book, Making Thinking Visible and the New York Times’ weekly feature, “What’s Going on in this Picture?” Courtesy
SWI: debate
Structured Word Inquiry (Bowers, 2010) helps students deeply understand our orthographic system. Using investigations, students learn why words are spelled the way they as they