Are you a supporter or an opponent of national reading assessments? In many countries around the world students are regularly assessed for reading proficiency. Catts (2022) argues that these assessments are unfair to students, teachers and schools. Impact on students … Continued
In their article ‘The Reading Brain is Taught, Not Born” Gotlieb and colleagues (2022) provide a historical lens on how cognitive neuroscience research can be used to teach, connect and strengthen the reading circuit. As discussed in this article, despite … Continued
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In her article, Hogan (2022) describes the link between language and reading. The following is a summary of some of the key she points makes regarding the link between oral language, vocabulary, reading and comprehension:. A speech disorder is when … Continued
In terms of language, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language: ‘Morph’=shape/form and ‘ology’=the study of. It includes the identification and analysis of stems, root words (often … Continued