There is a growing body of evidence showing a strong correlation between a reader’s morphological skills and reading comprehension. Levesque et al.’s (2018) longitudinal study investigated whether morphological awareness, morphological analysis or a combination of both most influenced the development … Continued
Writing is a skill and, just like any other skill, to be become a proficient writer you need to be explicitly taught how to be an effective writer and then be provided with sufficient supported practice. Introduce the technique Irrespective … Continued
Before students can comprehend the written word, they need to be able to decode the text and this should always be a core focus of intervention if this is the underlying problem. One component of comprehension is to be able … Continued
There are many programs available for teaching reading. How do you decide if a program has ‘scientific’ validity and is likely to be effective, especially from an intervention perspective? Nayton and colleagues (2022) identify some core components of high quality … Continued
Improving writing skills, unsurprisingly, requires sustained practice. A strategy used in many classrooms is to ask student to write about their weekend or their holidays. However, there are many more interesting topics you could use for inspiration. It is also … Continued