Beyond the Alphabetic Principle: Bringing Etymology into Literacy Instruction - Anya Maloney

Why doesn’t sounding out a word always tell us how to spell it? Bruce Howlett welcomes speech-language pathologist and literacy specialist Anya Maloney to explore common misconceptions about the alphabetic principle and how English spelling works. Anya explains how borrowing, pronunciation changes, and other historical influences shaped a system that represents pronunciation, meaning, and word history. Through examples of unexpected spellings and expansive word families, she shows how etymolo...