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
An onomatopoeia is a word that mimics, resembles or in some way suggests the sound associated with a particular object or creature. We commonly use onomatopoeias in relation to animal sounds like moo, cluck-cluck, oink and woof. They are also … Continued
Vocabulary instruction should be an integral component of teaching reading as a poor vocabulary recognition and understanding impacts on comprehension. The wider students’ vocabulary, the more effective they are at inferring the meaning of the text and deducing the meaning … Continued
The Reading League Summit 2023 joint statement (Kurto, 2024) highlights a list of practices that the Science of Reading does not support. The Science of Reading is: The following is a summary of the suggested directions to support positive literacy … Continued
A kangaroo word is a word that contains all the letters of its own synonym, with the letters already placed in the correct order, but not necessarily adjacent to each other. For example, the word ‘masculine‘ has the synonym ‘male’ … Continued