Teaching Nouns
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
Multisensory Teaching
This episode discusses multisensory learning and multisensory integration and then looks at the research around using multisensory strategies to promote learning and how these strategies can be applied to helping students learn to read and spell.
Three Tips for Lowering Anxiety
Guest writer, Kathryn O’Shea, is an experienced teacher who uses the Cracking the ABC Code programs with students experiencing difficulties with reading, spelling and writing living in Manning, Western Australia and surrounding areas. Anxiety and being easily distracted are common … Continued
Home Dialect and Phonological Awareness
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
Proper Nouns
When I ask students to define a noun, they will quickly tell me, “It’s a person, place or thing.” At the very least they need to add on ‘or idea’. I would rather that they use the definition: A noun … Continued