The average reader instantly recognizes 30,000 to 70,000 words -with no need to sound them out. How does that happen, and why does it matter in reading development? This webinar – by Scholastic author Dr. Molly Ness – explains the cognitive processes of orthographic mapping. Attendees will understand how readers embed words into their long-term memories, as well as the decoding and spelling instruction that facilitates this process. The author presents a four-step, research-based instructional routine that accelerates students abilities to lift words off the page and capture them in reading and writing. This session does the following:

• Explain why words must be mapped, not memorized
• Showcase the theory and research behind orthographic mapping
• Give instructional routines to build readers’ sight word identification