If you are not a good speller, the explicit teaching of words in terms of identifying the phonemes (sounds), the letters and letter combinations representing those phonemes (graphemes), the morphemes (prefixes, suffixes and stems) and understanding any relevant rules are … Continued
What do you do when your children or students spell a word incorrectly or ask you how to spell a word? Do you: Tell them how to spell the word? Write the word correctly for them? Tell them to look … Continued
There have been many claims over the years that by reading to children they will learn to read with minimal assistance. Similarly, teachers will often recommend to parents that if their child is struggling to learn to read, then they … Continued
This post provides an overview of Rastle’s (2019) article, Writing Systems, Reading and Language, in which she argues that written language has diverged from spoken language, communicating different information. Understanding this divergence is arguably key to effective reading and spelling … Continued
Blending Once students have decoded a word according to its phonemes, then they need to be able to blend those individual phonemes together into a coherent word. Thus the ability to blend underpins decoding. Consequently, it is important that students … Continued