Making Words Stick: A Four-Step Instructional Routine to Power Up Orthographic Mapping

by Molly Ness and Katie Pace Miles

The average reader instantly recognizes 30,000 to 70,000 words-with no need to sound them out. How does that happen? Through a process called orthographic mapping. This book explains the process by which readers embed words into their long-term memories, and the instruction necessary to help K-5 students do just that. Teachers will learn how to connect decoding, encoding, and meaning through a four-step, research-based, classroom-tested routine that accelerates students" abilities to lift words off the page and capture them in reading and writing.

Product details

ISBN13: 9781546176459
Format: Professional Book
Pages: 160
Grades: K-5
Language: English

Katie Pace Miles, Ph.D. is an associate professor and the Director of the Advanced Certificates in Reading Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Miles is the author of Reading Ready, academic advisor for Reading Go, and the co-author of Reading Ready for Whole Phonics and Making Words Stick. Dr. Miles is the co-founder and principal investigator of CUNY Reading Corps, which improves preservice teacher training and provides free high-dosage tutoring to over 2,300 historically underserved NYC students per year. Dr. Miles is also the founder and president of The Reading Institute, which brings free evidence-based tutoring programs to striving readers across the country and provides reading science-aligned professional development to teachers.

Molly Ness is a former classroom teacher, a reading researcher, and a teacher educator. She holds a doctorate in reading education from the University of Virginia, and she spent 16 years as an associate professor at Fordham University. With five books and numerous peer-reviewed articles, her research focuses on reading comprehension, teachers’ instructional decisions, and dyslexia. In 2019, Molly began the End Book Deserts podcast to bring attention to the issue of book access and equity. Molly serves on the Board of Directors for the International Literacy Association and on the elementary advisory panel for Penguin Random House. She cofounded the Coalition for Literacy Equity in 2021, working to ensure that all children have access to books and reading culture. In 2022, Dr. Ness joined Learning Ally as the Vice President of Academic Content.

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