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The Sentence Pathway to Decoding and Comprehension -- Xiuhong Tong & S. Hélène Deacon
Apr 20, 2026
58m 56s
Four Powerful Word, Sentence, Text and Cognitive Routines for Teaching Writing - Meghan Hicks
Mar 20, 2026
1h 04m 46s
Respecting the Social, Emotional & Academic Needs of Dyslexic Individuals -- Bonnie Feeney & Jen Petrich
Mar 2, 2026
52m 33s
Co-Creating a Community of Sentence Scholars - Rebecca Marsh & Meghan Hicks
Feb 15, 2026
1h 00m 33s
Spelling-Meaning Connections for Memory and Comprehension - Kimberly Murphy with Peter Bowers
Jan 18, 2026
1h 07m 48s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/20/26 |  The Sentence Pathway to Decoding and Comprehension -- Xiuhong Tong & S. Hélène Deacon | If you have ever wondered why your students struggle with word reading, or read accurately but with limited comprehension, then you may want to flip your approach to reading instruction. Start at the sentence level by using Xiuhong Tong and Hélène Deacon’s groundbreaking Linguistics Pathways Model, which provides two parallel paths leading to reading comprehension. The first pathway leads to word recognition by morphological decoding. Deacon and Tong show how word reading and meaning arise fr... | 58m 56s | ||||||
| 3/20/26 |  Four Powerful Word, Sentence, Text and Cognitive Routines for Teaching Writing - Meghan Hicks | Meghan Hicks returns to talk about how teaching structure at the word, sentence, and text levels can help students make sense of the writing process. We often discuss literacy as a system and the importance of students understanding how it works. Meghan explains the broader system and how her students discover that the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. You’ll learn that syntax—how sentences are constructed from words, phrases and clauses—isn’t an abstract language concept... | 1h 04m 46s | ||||||
| 3/2/26 |  Respecting the Social, Emotional & Academic Needs of Dyslexic Individuals -- Bonnie Feeney & Jen Petrich | Bonnie Feeney, a dyslexic mother and Jen Petrich, her PhD neuroscientist daughter discuss dyslexia from a unique perspective—one of from a journey of personal discovery and the other from studying brain science. Hear how their journeys came together, enriching both their lives. Learn the difficulties that dyslexics confront within and beyond the classroom. Dyslexics share more than a diagnosis and supporting them requires more than just a reading intervention. They deserve our respect a... | 52m 33s | ||||||
| 2/15/26 |  Co-Creating a Community of Sentence Scholars - Rebecca Marsh & Meghan Hicks | “Just thinking about grammar and syntax raises my anxiety.” Whether you share that reaction or you just feel shaky on some aspects of writing and sentence structure, you aren’t alone. Such a complex topic is not mastered in a one-and-done class. Yet it takes intellectual courage to become a student again and not to give up, especially when we are already acknowledged experts in our professions. In these days of mandated curricula, it isn’t easy to step out of the paradigm that currently dicta... | 1h 00m 33s | ||||||
| 1/18/26 |  Spelling-Meaning Connections for Memory and Comprehension - Kimberly Murphy with Peter Bowers | “Spell what you mean, not just what you hear,” is researcher and speech pathologist Kim Murphy’s advice to students. While spelling instruction often focuses on pronunciation, spelling-meaning instruction makes so much more sense to students and their teachers. Graphemes (letter patterns) and morphemes, the meaningful core of every written word, spell words in predictable and consistent ways, even as their pronunciation shifts. Joined by Peter Bowers, creator of Structured Word Inquiry... | 1h 07m 48s | ||||||
| 12/30/25 |  Language Enriching Literacy Ideas for DLD - Kathleen Love and Beth C. Gunshor | Language issues are a surprisingly common source of reading, spelling and writing difficulties. Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is impacting students in your classrooms and offices. Listen to Speech-Language Pathologists Kathleen Love and Beth Coppoc Gunshor as they share about observing, supporting and teaching students with language challenges, including DLD. They provide practical methods that boost oral and written language abilities using word and sentence activities rooted in mean... | 1h 13m 33s | ||||||
| 10/30/25 |  Fostering Fascination With Words & Sentences - Mary Beth Steven, Lisa Barnett, Skot Caldwell | Three experienced teachers show how to get even your most resistant students to become fascinated by words and sentences. They explain how to turn memory-draining spelling homework into an activity that enriches vocabulary, sight word mapping and provides a deep understanding of how words are constructed. If morphology and the English spelling system doesn't make sense to you and your students, they will by the end of the podcast. Mary Beth, Lisa and Skot explain how structured word inq... | 59m 53s | ||||||
| 10/18/25 |  Building a Strong Foundation for Structured Literacy Teaching - Sue Hegland & Liisa Freure | Would you like to: understand how the English spelling system, or orthography, can be taught in so it makes sense to students and teachers, alike? integrate morphemes, the meaningful core of every word, into your reading, spelling and vocabulary instruction? Alternatives to memory and attention demanding practices like sight word spelling, syllable types, and spelling rules? In this episode, Sue Scibetta Hegland, author of Beneath the Surface of Words, chats with Liisa Freure—f... | 1h 08m 57s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 |  A School Year Rich in Words - Ann Whiting & Lyn Anderson | A wonderful plan for teachers, starting with five-year-old students on up to secondary school, to create a community of students who love exploring language, starting with the written and spoken word. Based on Ann Whiting and Lyn Anderson's beautiful books, A Field Guide to Words and A Year in Words. Children learn how the English spelling system, or orthography, works and how it is the foundation of reading, spelling and writing. Children learn to explore the three components of the spelling... | 1h 02m 10s | ||||||
| 9/16/25 |  How English Spelling Really Works - Jennifer Petrich & Brad Johnson | Do you know how English spelling really works? Go beneath the surface of words to find the connections between orthography (spelling system) and morphology, the meaningful core of every word in every language. While sound-symbol relationships in English are variable the spelling-meaning relationships are consistent. Jennifer Petrich and Brad Johnson are dedicated to advancing their students’ language, literacy and cognitive growth. depth of understanding of words and how they func... | 49m 34s | ||||||
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| 8/29/25 |  High Frequency Word Project - Rebecca Loveless and Fiona Hamilton | The High Frequency Word Project, is an explicit, systematic resource that teaches the 130 high frequency words using strategies that make them stick. Each of these critical words is taught on multiple levels, from sounds and spellings to the morphological meaning, and how they are defined in sentences. Each word is further defined using something new: linguistically-accurate and fascinating stories about high frequency words’ etymologies providing the missing link to explain the mysterious pa... | 1h 02m 38s | ||||||
| 7/27/25 |  How Dyslexics Make Sense of Written English - Marie Foley & Sara Lee | If you think you know how dyslexia affects children and adults please listen to this moving and uplifting podcast. Dyslexia causes confusion way beyond decoding. Roadblocks frequently arise during vocabulary, sight word and morphology development, and sentence construction. Often overlooked is how sentence structure and complex grammatical patterns can limit comprehension. . Marie Foley spend decades with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD. In this podcast, Marie reveals how she gained clari... | 56m 13s | ||||||
| 7/13/25 |  Transform Read Alouds into Language and Reading Comprehension Lessons - Trina Spencer and Doug Peterson | Would you like to turn your Read Alouds into a dynamic lesson that improves language comprehension - the upper strands of Scarborough's Rope - as well as reading comprehension and sentence writing? Trina Spencer and Doug Peterson not only have been researching these topics for decades but have made Story Champs, a series of ready-to-use stories and scaffolds. See their videos below and watch a 15 minute lesson were a student goes from describing a story in three words to retelling the story u... | 1h 04m 00s | ||||||
| 6/21/25 | Marcia Henry and Deb Glaser - Learning to Love Language - From Words to Meaningful Sentences | Learn how educators can enrich lessons and develop a deep appreciation for written and spoken language for students in all grades. Learn that spelling, morphology, vocabulary development and sentence writing can be taught, not as separate subjects, but in a time-saving integrated manner. If you are looking to connect word meaning and sentence comprehension to decoding instruction then this is the podcast for you. Dr. Marcia Henry brings six decades of experience working in the fields of... | 1h 00m 32s | ||||||
| 6/3/25 |  Sight Words and Morphology Linnea Ehri Pete Bowers Kenn Apel | Listen to three of the most important voices in literacy, Linnea Ehri, Peter Bowers and Kenn Apel, talk about the important role of morphology in reading, vocabulary, spelling and sight word development. Linnea Ehri updates her theory of orthographic mapping to emphasize the role that morphology plays not just in the four initial phases but when words are stored in sight word memory directly - without needing to be sounded out. The spelling of morphemes is critical to developing sight w... | 1h 04m 48s | ||||||
| 6/3/25 |  Vocabulary and Morphology using Structured Word Inquiry | Vocabulary & Morphology using Structured Word Inquiry by Lisa Barnett and Katie Squires is designed to help you implement lessons guided by the four essential questions of structured word inquiry. The book contains a teacher guide, lesson template, and student work packet. The comprehensive Teacher Resource Guide leads you through the four guiding questions of SWI to help the teacher present lessons to their students that will uncover key concepts of the structure of our spelling system a... | 50m 45s | ||||||
| 6/3/25 |  Morphology and SWI - English as a Sensible and Meaningful Spelling System | Jennifer Constantine and Kara Lee have written an implementation guide to one of the most exciting areas of literacy instruction - Structured Word Inquiry. They are the authors of Structured Word Inquiry – An Implementation Guide for Teachers. About the book: We invite you to uncover the transformative power of Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) with this comprehensive implementation guide. SWI unveils the orderly structure underlying English spelling and empowers educators to demystify its comp... | 45m 32s | ||||||
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