The ultimate goal of reading instruction is for students to read with understanding. Yes, the focus of initial instruction should be on teaching sound-symbol correlations so students can decode and encode words fluently. However, instruction also needs to include understanding text … Continued
Jagaiah et al. (2019) suggest developing a series of checklists as a way of supporting students who find the writing process difficult. Ideally, these checklists should be constructed in conjunction with the student. The construction of the checklist is a … Continued
If you are a poor speller, you may wish that you were a scribe in the 13th century. During this Middle English period there was a huge amount of variation in the spelling of words. For example, in that era … Continued
Morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning in a word and each morpheme provides either semantic (an understanding of meaning) or syntactic (set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences) information. Many English words often consist … Continued