2-Session SWI Courses for the Seriously Curious (for novices & experts)

Recordings will be available for a month after the course ends.

Time to study, time to try new ideas out with students, and time to ask questions.

Each session introduces orthographic concepts through instructional practices that can be employed with students the next day. Participants have-a-go knowing we will revisit those concepts and address questions that come up. Novices learn along experts. Many in my current courses that are about to end have already signed up to retake the same course.

We can think of this course (and my work in general) as having a focus on three core interrelated understandings.

Deepening understanding of how English orthography works;

Becoming confident in your ability to independently investigate English orthography scientifically;

Learning how to use your understanding of # 1 and #2 to guide your instructional practice.

You can watch Pete discuss the role of morphological instruction for language comprehension in this video  from the Reading League Summit.

This video discusses  the structure of English orthography and how the matrix and word sum guide instruction to align with the universal combinatorial structure of language as described in David Share’s (2025) major new paper. 

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Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) Spring 2025

Course Overview

Meet the course producers