Vocabulary development is a key factor in reading achievement and overall academic success. One way of increasing students’ vocabulary is encouraging them to read a wide variety of texts which contain vocabulary at an appropriately challenging level. Research shows that … Continued
I have just finished reading an interesting and informative book by David Crystal titled ‘Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling’. David devotes a chapter to arguing that the teaching of spelling rules fails to work because of … Continued
Handwriting lessons in which children were taught how to hold a pencil and how to form the letters of the alphabet used to be an integral part of the school day. Now, for many children, their first exposure to writing … Continued
If you are not a particularly good speller, the more spelling rules you know and understand, the better your spelling becomes because it gives you a framework to determine the most likely spelling of a word and this is supported … Continued