Teaching Nouns
A noun is a ‘naming word’. If refers to things that you can see, touch, hear, taste, smell, think about or experience. If it is something you can perceive using your senses (book, noise, odour, sourness), it is a concrete … Continued
Chunking Strategy for Decoding
In this episode our AI investigators will do a deep dive into teaching students a simple strategy of breaking multisyllabic words into manageable chunks, thereby reducing the load on working memory. It is easily learned and can be effectively applied … Continued
Reading Fluency Considerations
In his book ‘Teaching Primary Reading’, Such (2025) makes the following points about reading fluency: In the referenced article, Such suggests that the following aspects should also have been included: ReferenceSuch, C. (2025). Five things I wish I’d said about … Continued
Silent ‘b’
Learning to spell many English words correctly can be a long and difficult journey. Why for example do we have a silent ‘b’ in words like bomb, climb, debt and doubt? Often the answer lies in tracing the word back … Continued
Comprehension in the Early Years
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