Presenting Multisyllabic Strategies for Adolescent Readers
As students move into middle and high school, challenges with multisyllabic words come to the fore. In her AERA Distinguished Scholar presentation (SIG: Reading and Literacy), Freddy asked how corpus linguistics could pinpoint the multisyllabic words most worth teaching. The exercise had three steps. First, she identified the three-syllable words within the 1,500 most-frequent written-English read more
Knowing Word Parts Isn’t the Same as Knowing Words
Morphology teaching frequently stops at the pieces — students drill prefixes and suffixes in isolation, fill in charts, match roots to definitions — without ever encountering those element in real texts. What learners also need is sustained engagement with texts where morphologically rich vocabulary appears in context. It’s the combination — explicit guidance and meaningful… read more
Middle Schoolers Deserve Stories, Not Worksheets
Middle schoolers don’t need more scaffolding and exercises. They need stories that treat them as the thinking, feeling, aware human beings they actually are. read more
