Isn’t their work amazing? Check out the tools they use to deepen their understanding of the writing system, identify and correct errors in their current thinking, and create explanatory knowledge for reading and spelling.

Tim Shanahan warns of this very real potential to harm, noting that he has been hearing from many teachers whose schools have severely cut back on critical aspects of reading instruction to facilitate phonics coverage. shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/…

Children can use word sums and matrices to study English words in the permanent context of their morphological families. xitter.cf/GinaCookeLEX/status/13…

"The idea that students experiencing poverty require a watered-down, low-level curriculum is pernicious; so is conflating explicit instruction in foundational reading skills with 'drill and kill.'” - @MicheleCaracapp michelecaracappa.substack.co…

Yes! We can use word sums and matrices to help us think about the structure of written words, hypothesizing about their base elements, affixes, suffixing conventions, and relatives: fine/ + al → final fine/ + ite → finite de + fine/ + ite → definite mbsteven.edublogs.org/2017/1…