A core component of teaching is engaging students and keeping them motivated so that they will practise skills until mastery is achieved. Use your empty Advent Calendars to create a teaching tool for providing grapheme recognition practice. Obviously, you would … Continued
The key information within a paragraph, and arguably a whole story, is often contained within a few sentences. Similarly, not all words have equal value in terms of making sense of individual sentences. Therefore, determining the key sentences and the … Continued
The attached opinion piece was in The West Australian newspaper on 23rd November, 2024. I thought it could form the basis for an interesting comprehension activity. Each of the warnings could be written in a table (see below) with students … Continued
Firstly and most importantly, we need to define the term ‘sight words’. The term ‘sight words’ is frequently confused with ‘high frequency words’. High frequency words are the words which most commonly occur in print (e.g, was, here, they). A … Continued
Learning to spell words correctly is a difficult skill and it is a skill that is even more challenging for children with learning and attention issues. If you are a poor speller it impacts on: The words you select to … Continued