Flippity

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Have you heard of Flippity? It is a free program that you can use to make a range of resources to help students practise and review concepts you have taught or are currently teaching. Below are some literacy-based suggestions: Random … Continued

How much Reading is Enough?

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Once students are reading, quantity of reading becomes increasingly important in terms of reading development. However, there is very little information on how much reading is sufficient. Wang et al. (2025) investigated this issue in their study. Below is a … Continued

Fluency Practice

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Reading fluency is the ability to read text accurately (which requires good decoding skills, a large sight word vocabulary and a good understanding of morphology), at a good rate (similar to talking), and with appropriate expression (prosody). When students read … Continued

Teaching Schwa

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Schwa is the unclearly pronounced vowel sound that occurs in multisyllabic words. It is the most common sound in English and can be represented by every vowel grapheme. Schwa is a spelling issue not a reading issue. If students can … Continued