Infusing England's Rigid Phonics Mandates with Morphological Word Study - Andrea Dalland, Tanya Watt, Jo Johnson & Susannah Thorne

England's phonics‑first mandates struggle to engage all learners, leaving about a third of students with limited reading abilities—even when they have received years of instruction. The mandates miss opportunities to build vocabulary, comprehension and curiosity, essential literacy skills. Meet a team of educators working to enrich instruction with Structured Word Inquiry, which blends morphology and spelling. This approach blends deep inquiry into words, offering a meaning‑rich alterna...