This episode discusses a school wide writing program based around a school post office. The discussion centres around the process of running the program and the benefits of the program. ReferencesBrandt, L. (2025). Motivation by mail: Increasing writing opportunities and … Continued
Once students have learned to read, quantity of reading and deeper interpretation of texts become even more critical. In their podcast, Aerila et al. (2026), present a range of ideas for igniting creativity in reading instruction which their research has … Continued
An analysis by Korochkina and Rastle (2026) of words used in 1,200 popular British children’s books (7-16 years) found that nearly half of the words were made up of more than one morpheme (smallest part of a word that carries … Continued
Writing is a central component of literacy. Effective writing not only successfully communicates ideas, using appropriate vocabulary and grammatically correct sentences, it also can be used to enhance reading comprehension and to assist in retention of concepts being taught in … Continued
Every subject has vocabulary that students need to understand in order to make sense of the content being taught. The current research suggests (see for example Rastle, 2018) that skilled adult readers routinely use morphological knowledge in addition to knowledge … Continued