Conference Resource Hub · Madison Hutto Muller

The session

Students can decode a word perfectly and still miss its meaning. This session shows how teaching the structure of words, their roots, prefixes, and suffixes, helps adolescent readers unlock the complex language of the texts they're asked to read.

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Resources from the session.

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Session handout

The full handout from today's session: roots, affixes, and classroom moves, as a PDF.

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Reference list

The research behind the session: structured literacy, morphology, and comprehension.

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Selected references

Further reading.

A starting point for the research discussed today. Full citations are available on request.

Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In Handbook of Early Literacy Research.
Ehri, L. C. (2005). Learning to read words: Theory, findings, and issues. Scientific Studies of Reading, 9(2).
Bowers, P. N., Kirby, J. R., & Deacon, S. H. (2010). The effects of morphological instruction on literacy skills: A systematic review of the literature. Review of Educational Research, 80(2).
Nagy, W., & Anderson, R. C. (1984). How many words are there in printed school English? Reading Research Quarterly, 19(3).
National Reading Panel (2000). Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction.
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Nation's Report Card: reading assessment data. nationsreportcard.gov.

Your presenter

Madison Hutto Muller, M.Ed., NBCT

A literacy scientist, practitioner-researcher, and founder of MorphoMinds®, Madison helps educators understand how word structure, vocabulary, and language knowledge shape reading comprehension and written expression.

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