For The Love Of Literacy

About For The Love Of Literacy

For the Love of Literacy provides podcasts about the exciting advances in literacy instruction, from morphology and orthography (the spelling system), to meaningful sight word memorization, and sentence construction and comprehension. We focus on the often overlooked aspects of literacy and their links to language development. We tie learning to read, spell and writing to their roots in spoken language. This makes teaching and learning these abilities much easier because literacy learning is driven by language learning. The major components of spoken language plus vocabulary knowledge strongly predicting and largely determining growth in reading, spelling and writing. Our guests are not just knowledgeable the links between language and language but know how to implement this learning in the classroom. You will hear from noted researchers including Linnea Ehri, Marcia Henry and Peter Bowers as well as teachers who have developed lessons that engage students and enrich language abilities. Check back weekly to discover more Fulfilling Literacy Lessons and Clarifying conversations. Feel free to reach out to me at Bruce@ReadingShift.com (mailto:Bruce@ReadingShift.com).

Publisher

Bruce

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Beyond the Alphabetic Principle: Bringing Etymology into Literacy Instruction - Anya Maloney

   Why doesn’t sounding out a word always tell us how to spell it? Bruce Howlett welcomes speech-language pathologist and literacy specialist Anya Maloney to explore common misconceptions about the alphabetic principle and how English spelling works. Anya explains how borrowing, pronunciation changes, and other historical influences shaped a system that represents pronunciation, meaning, and word history. Through examples of unexpected spellings and expansive word families, she shows how etymolo...

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Infusing England's Rigid Phonics Mandates with Morphological Word Study - Andrea Dalland, Tanya Watt, Jo Johnson & Susannah Thorne

   England's phonics‑first mandates struggle to engage all learners, leaving about a third of students with limited reading abilities—even when they have received years of instruction. The mandates miss opportunities to build vocabulary, comprehension and curiosity, essential literacy skills. Meet a team of educators working to enrich instruction with Structured Word Inquiry, which blends morphology and spelling. This approach blends deep inquiry into words, offering a meaning‑rich alterna...

3. 

   7 Aug 2026

   The Word Mapping Project: Engaging Every Learner in Vocabulary, Morphology, Spelling & Writing Instruction - Sean Morrisey

   Do you want to get excited about teaching words, vocabulary, spelling, and writing instruction? Do you want to see your students embrace these subjects as enriching and empowering abilities — not just another academic task? Sean Morrissey points the way with The Word Mapping Project, a series of clear, consistent 35-minute lessons that integrate these language and literacy abilities using cognitive learning principles that make instruction stick. Sean, a school psychologist who became a...

Who has been a guest on For The Love Of Literacy

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Marcia Henry
• Deb Glaser
• Linnea Ehri
• Pete Bowers
• Kenn Apel

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

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Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

31

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