Building Fluency with POSSUM — Melissa & Lori Love Literacy

Wolf and Melissa Orkin walk through the POSSUM routine — the closest thing to a RAVE-O methods episode.

Melissa & Lori Love Literacy × Maryanne Wolf & Melissa Orkin

Dec 6, 2024

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Wolf and longtime collaborator Melissa Orkin walk through POSSUM — the explicit routine connecting phonology, orthography, meaning, syntax, and morphology — on the Melissa & Lori Love Literacy podcast. The closest a podcast gets to a RAVE-O methods session.

Fluency is a crucial aspect of reading. It involves automaticity and the ability to connect different aspects of word knowledge.
— from the episode notes

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