In his book, How To Explain Absolutely Anything to Absolutely Anyone: The art and science of teacher explanation, Andy Tharby suggests that there are 7 keys to effective explanations: 1. Strong subject knowledge Teachers need to be able to understand … Continued
How do you help students who are struggling to read classroom texts while preventing them from becoming disengaged? Should we be providing these students with easier texts to facilitate comprehension and learning or should we be helping students read these … Continued
This post is a summary of Van de Walle de Gheicke, Rossion and Lochy’s (2018) study investigating the impact of different approaches to teaching reading on the development of neural circuits. Background It is known that adult expert readers have … Continued
Linguistically, schwa (represented using the symbol ǝ) is an unaccented vowel sound that sounds something like an unclear grunt. It occurs in unaccented words and syllables and is the most commonly occurring sound in English. The problem with schwa (which … Continued
There are many dialects of English arising due to regional and/or socio-economic differences in pronunciation. This means that any one phonic-based program may not exactly match with the pronunciation of all students and may result in students making errors in … Continued