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Presenting Multisyllabic Strategies for Adolescent Readers
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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.
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Knowing Word Parts Isn't the Same as Knowing Words
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Morphology teaching frequently stops at the pieces, without ever encountering those elements doing real work in real texts. What learners also need is reading — sustained engagement with texts where morphologically rich vocabulary appears in context, where the same root surfaces across different words, where meaning has to be constructed rather than recalled from a list.
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