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Podcast: Teaching Literacy Podcast
Episode: Episode 13: How Words Work with Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert
Description: Developing readers will likely encounter thousands of unfamiliar words over the course of a school year. How will you teach those words to your students? My guest today is Dr. Freddy Hiebert and she has some excellent insight to this conundrum in her new book ”Teaching Words and How They Work”
We have an excellent conversation about how the digital revolution has changed what we know about effective vocabulary instruction, why words should be taught it networks, differences in word types between texts, and much more.
This episode opened my eyes to how words can be t...