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Dec 2022
58m 12s

Orthographic Mapping with Anna Geiger (T...

Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Shannon and Mary chat with Ann Geiger from The Measured Mom about how  readers orthographically stores words in their reading brains.  This episode follows our overview of the reading brain, where we talked about the reader's journey to whole word recognition and how reading teachers can help their readers bolt on the orthography to what students already know in spoken language and language comprehension.  In this episode, we go into greater detail about best practices to do in the classrooms to help your students gain this meaningful letter sequence storage.

Episode Links for Resources mentioned:

  1. Dr. Linnea Ehri's List of Instructional Guidelines for Orthographic Mapping
  2. Why 3 Cueing is Ineffective
  3. Grapheme Deck
  4. Sight Words, Orthographic Mapping, Phonemic Awareness by Stephen Parker
  5. ISME tweet about Orthographic mapping
  6. Visual model showing morphology as a binding agent relating semantics, orthography, and phonology (J. Kirby and N. Bowers)
  7. How Orthographic Mapping Starts with Phonemic Proficiency
  8. Song for Kids about Orthographic Mapping
  9. Word Mapping Tool
  10. Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Sanislas Dehaene *Amazon affiliate link, where we earn a small commission from your purchase*
  11. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf *Amazon affiliate link*
  12. The Measured Mom on Twitter
  13. The Measured Mom on Instagram
  14. The Measured Mom's Website
  15. The Measured Mom's Membership
  16. Shannon's High Frequency Word Mapping resources

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