Stephanie Ruston

Helping kids build knowledge and understanding for spelling and reading.

#Orthography #Phonology #Morphology #Etymology #StructuredWordInquiry #Dyslexia

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

“If we are going to teach children how their writing system works, we need to teach them the interrelation of morphology, phonology, and etymology."

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

@ged10 @ReadingShift @NickieSimonetti @londonjohn9 @catteach @mazst @DoctorSam7 @JohnBaldLangLit @dylanwiliam @ManYanaEd @CuriousReader13 @dmounty14 @ray42164 @DrMPaff @GovTutor @ReadingShanahan @SaraJPeden @jeffrey_bowers @KirstenDuncombe @jdtdobson @teachforever54 @rfarmer27 @annarzepeckaka1 @DrMaryHoward @borneo_pete @buckingham_j @nellkduke Are you arguing that kids should not study the English writing system until they have been programmed to treat it as a code for speech, a bad explanation of how written English works?

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

@ged10 @ReadingShift @NickieSimonetti @londonjohn9 @catteach @mazst @DoctorSam7 @JohnBaldLangLit @dylanwiliam @ManYanaEd @CuriousReader13 @dmounty14 @ray42164 @DrMPaff @GovTutor @ReadingShanahan @SaraJPeden @jeffrey_bowers @KirstenDuncombe @jdtdobson @teachforever54 @rfarmer27 @annarzepeckaka1 @DrMaryHoward @borneo_pete @buckingham_j @nellkduke Will you please explain what you mean by "1st stages"?

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[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

“Understanding a word’s structure and then spelling the word by announcing its morphemes is a more reliable strategy for spelling than sounding it out or judging the word on its looks.” @MaryBethSteve18 https://t.co/x2vOOLhmRQ

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

These lucky learners are studying the English writing system, investigating “tricky” words to discover their relatives, elements, and units.

https://t.co/x2vOOLhmRQ

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

Isn’t their work amazing? Check out the tools they use to deepen their understanding of the writing system, identify and correct errors in their current thinking, and create explanatory knowledge for reading and spelling.

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

@JSerravallo @NateJoseph19 Hi Jennifer. I agree that there are several strategies for word reading that are not MSV.

Did the research that you shared also look at peeling off known affixes (to reveal the base element) as a word-level action that readers can take?

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

@LinguisticsGirl Happy Anniversary! I'm glad you are here. I've learned a lot from your tweets and website. Thank you!

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

“The fact that the grapheme <t> in act and action maps onto different pronunciations is not evidence of a poor spelling system; rather, it is evidence that English spelling encodes morphology in a consistent manner.” https://t.co/hz98C6evnc

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

Morphological analysis tools such as word sums and matrices provide a useful structure for helping kids to think about word pronunciations and meanings https://t.co/jjVaY8FM8k

[Mr Leyshon @RyonWLeyshon]

Looking at how words containing a shared base change as other morphemes are added/removed will not only solidify core spelling patterns but also draw attention to how the phonological aspects of a word can change even when the spelling remains constant within these word families.

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

https://t.co/4oMZC5sMCv

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

Children can use word sums and matrices to study English words in the permanent context of their morphological families.

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

@TimRasinski1 @DrMPaff @rrcna_org @plthomasEdD Tim Shanahan warns of this very real potential to harm, noting that he has been hearing from many teachers whose schools have severely cut back on critical aspects of reading instruction to facilitate phonics coverage. https://t.co/kuM3XerzEh

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

@MiriamFein @jeffrey_bowers @ehanford @DeborahLynam Like phonics, SWI teaches grapheme-phoneme correspondences explicitly, but it does so in the context of morphological families to help kids understand how they work.

Going deeper than phonics, it helps kids (and their teachers) grow their knowledge of the *system* itself.

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

@MiriamFein @jeffrey_bowers @ehanford @DeborahLynam To be fair, teachers and students also identify all of the graphemes in written words, mapping them to phonemes and noting how they may be pronounced differently in related words (e.g., the <t> in <act> and <action>).

Spelling words out loud is only one of several activities.

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

Note: I meant to include a link to the source for the above <act> family matrix. It's Dr. @GinaCookeLEX's work, not mine. https://t.co/21xGVITcQb

[LuckyGirlLinguist💃 @GinaCookeLEX]

@SCESCLiteracy @eeharrington4 You can group anything in a cell that can work across that row. For example, here, I do NOT group <ion> and <ive> because *activeable and *actionly are nor possible words. But the connecting <u> can serve the words actual, actually, actuary, and actuate, so I group accordingly.

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

Children can use word sums and matrices to study English words in the permanent context of their morphological families.

[Mr Leyshon @RyonWLeyshon]

I’d love to hear if anyone else has any ‘go-to’ spelling activities they feel help children to consider the both the phonology and morphology of words!

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

“Every time we study a word in its family, we learn more about the system.” - Dr. Gina Cooke https://t.co/ivl8awUzQf

[Stephanie Ruston @Spell2Read]

These tools and activities require children to spell and read words while analyzing and considering their phonology and morphology together.