There have been many claims over the years that by reading to children they will learn to read with minimal assistance. Similarly, teachers will often recommend to parents that if their child is struggling to learn to read, then they … Continued
This post provides an overview of Rastle’s (2019) article, Writing Systems, Reading and Language, in which she argues that written language has diverged from spoken language, communicating different information. Understanding this divergence is arguably key to effective reading and spelling … Continued
Blending Once students have decoded a word according to its phonemes, then they need to be able to blend those individual phonemes together into a coherent word. Thus the ability to blend underpins decoding. Consequently, it is important that students … Continued
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
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