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Oct 2024
57m 34s

7.4 Word Knowledge

Shannon Betts and Mary Saghafi
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Shannon and Mary welcome Heidi Martin (@Droppin' Knowledge with Heidi) back to the podcast, and Heidi's husband, Adam, a LETRS trainer, also joins the conversation.  They talk about all the aspects that go into the topic of Word Knowledge.  What are all the things students should know and understand about a word to demonstrate complete knowledge of that term? You'll walk away from listening to this episode with a more complete understanding of all the layers of skills within Word knowledge that we need to help our readers build.


RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE:

  1.  Heidi's website 
  2.  Heidi's social media TikTok 
  3.  Heidi's social media Instagram 
  4.  Heidi on FB
  5.  Heidi's decodables 
  6.  Heidi's freebie about the Reading Brain 
  7.  SOR 101 (Science of Reading 101) Membership 
  8.  Strive for Five Conversations by Sonia Cabell and Tricia Zucker *Amazon affiliate link 
  9.  Etymonline 
  10.  our previous Science of Reading episode with Heidi 
  11.  our episode about Delightful Word Learning with Collette Hiller 
  12.  InferCabulary 
  13.  3 Clicks Spelling 
  14.  Spelling Riddles 
  15.  Morpheme Magic 
  16.  Structured Word Inquiry (Dr. Pete Bowers) 


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