2026-27 SCORE + TEACH Webinar Series

Presenters: Dr. Kristen Beach, Dr. Miranda Fitzgerald

Audience: Educators, coaches, instructional specialists, and Early Literacy Specialists

Title: Leading Literacy Lens: Morphological Instruction Promoting reading, spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension in the elementary grades

Description: Teaching Literacy Lens: Morphology—the study of word structure—bridges word recognition and language comprehension. While phonics instruction helps students decode words, morphological instruction (prefixes, suffixes, and roots) connects those words to meaning. This session reviews theory and research supporting morphological instruction in elementary school, clarifies which morphemes to target, and outlines explicit and strategic instructional strategies that teachers can use to boost student reading, spelling, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension.

Where: Virtual

When: Thursday, October 29th, 3:30-4:30 pm