Let's stop focusing on decoding and start focusing on developing literacy. The three most important yet overlooked components of literacy are: morphemes (the building blocks of all words) phrases (the building blocks of sentences) syntax - the universal blueprint for build sentences.

Still teaching reading, spelling & writing as if they are different things? The Seven Layers of Literacy lesson plan takes all students, including weak decoders & spellers, from single words to natural words pairs to phrases to sentence comprehension and writing in each lesson. ReadingShift.com

Learn about the most important topic in literacy -- developmental language disorder DLD. Identify and support using practical methods students who struggle with language and literacy. Kathleen Love and Beth Gunshor will show you practical methods so you can be successful with these students.

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, as Dr. Ehri calls them, play in sight word formation. Sue will also discuss the central role that morphemes play in vocabulary and spelling development. If you want to know where literacy instruction is headed then listen to this talk. The For the Love of Literacy podcast with Linnea Ehri, Kenn Apel, and Pete Bower, who Dr. Ehri also credits for this shift, can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

With falling NAEP scores and research showing how vital sentence writing is to reading growth, it’s imperative that students get a change to perform at a higher level - even if they are struggling with decoding. Yes, writing success can motivate struggling readers! See more linguistic challenges at ReadingShift.com

Integrated language-literacy instruction builds off children's growing language abilities, using the universal combining principle - all kids on the planet learn to read by combining symbols and sounds into morphemes (the core of every word), then words are combined into phrases and sentences. The first & every lesson in Sparking the Reading Shit raises expectations & motivation. ReadingShift.com

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. Literacy is a system not a bunch of unrelated parts. Kids understand language as a system so teaching literacy this way makes sense to both the teach and the student. More at ReadingShift.com

The Universal "Combining" Principle that all kids on the planet used to learn to read - Phonemes = morphemes in speech. graphemes = morphemes in written words. All words are combinations of morphemes. Words combine into phrases & sentences - the key to meaning From Day 1 go from sounds to sentences for spelling, meaning and sight word development.

Want to find out the universal way that all children on the planet learn to read all the various forms of written language? Attend my presentation at the NY State Reading Association meeting on Monday I'll also discuss how integrated use of the "combining principle" is a way beyond the limitations of BL and "SoR".

Teaching Words by Elfrieda Hiebert is 100 pages of practical info that integrates vocabulary, morphology, semantics and spelling perfectly. Learning about generative learning will change your teaching life.

Stop teaching reading. It's too hard and grows more complicated daily. Many of the methods produce temporary results. Move up to Language-literacy development. Just focus on the four major parts of spoken language using A-B-E-C. Go from sounds to sentences in every lesson. ReadingShift.com

Morphemes and especially morphological awareness are central to developing decoding, spelling, fluency, vocabulary and semantics. So if you are teaching children to read, spell and write without integrated, simultaneous morphological development you are teaching with one hand tied behind your back.

Join Pamela Snow, Svetlana Cvetkovic and me tomorrow at the Accelerate Literacy Virtual 2024.sllsummit.com. I'll be speaking on "Move from Teaching Reading to Language-Literacy Development". Learn how to deliver lessons that provide a broad language and literacy experience by combining the four major components of spoken language with orthography. Students are capable of so much more that just decoding by going from sounds to sentences in each lesson. ReadingShift.com

Teaching reading is too hard so simplify literacy instruction by combining the four major components of speech with written words, phrases and sentences in every lesson. Your students are capable of so much more. Sign up 2024.sllsummit.com/?sc=NLF0t…