POSSUM Model

POSSUM Model

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.

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

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

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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

Listen at Buzzsprout (50 min).

Related in the Nest: Semantic development: the S in POSSUM · The paper that defined fluency

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

© 2026 Nido Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.