Bead Words
A fun way to have children practise their spelling words plus add in a manipulation activity to create new words.
Using Metalanguage to Teach Spelling
In English, spelling a word requires you to integrate orthography (the correct sequence of letters and combinations of letters) to phonology (sounds in the word) with a knowledge of morphology (word parts that signal meaning and grammar) (Garcia, Abbott, & … Continued
Developing Young Children’s Comprehension
The focus of initial reading instruction is primarily on teaching the decoding process. However, the ultimate aim of reading is to actually understand the text. Therefore, early instruction should also encompass language comprehension, including oral language comprehension. This should involves … Continued
Knowledge Acquisition and Transformation Framework
It is well established that underpinning good comprehension is having a large vocabulary of words that can be easily recognised (and the ability to quickly and accurately decode words that are not automatically recognised), to have a good understanding of … Continued
Malapropisms
Malapropisms are when a similar-sounding word is mistakenly used in the place of the correct word, often resulting in an amusing effect. According to Britannica, the term originates from Richard Sheridan’s play The Rivals in which one of the characters, … Continued