Really glad to see this conversation and to see Pete Bowers’ work reaching more classrooms. Teachers need more examples of vocabulary and spelling instruction that treat words as structured and meaningful, not random.
One gentle clarification: in SWI, we do not start from sound alone. English orthography is organized by morphology and etymology, with phonology understood within that structure.
I’m a speech-language pathologist and write on Substack about using SWI in language and literacy intervention, so I especially appreciated seeing this discussion in a classroom context.
Really glad to see this conversation and to see Pete Bowers’ work reaching more classrooms. Teachers need more examples of vocabulary and spelling instruction that treat words as structured and meaningful, not random.
One gentle clarification: in SWI, we do not start from sound alone. English orthography is organized by morphology and etymology, with phonology understood within that structure.
I’m a speech-language pathologist and write on Substack about using SWI in language and literacy intervention, so I especially appreciated seeing this discussion in a classroom context.