Once children are reading, quantity of reading and instilling a desire for reading become critical components of improving reading skills. Underlying this is access to books. A starting place is obviously the school or local community library. However, it … Continued
More and more people who want to be viewed as gender neutral are requesting that they be referred to using the pronoun ‘they’ (instead of ‘he’ or ‘she’). It is interesting to consider this shift in the context of the … Continued
The next Cracking the ABC Code podcast discusses how teachers can use poetry to provide intentional scaffolding to help develop students’ writing. Reference Kerbs, M., McQueston, J., &Lawrance, L. (2024). Playing with words: Scaffolding writing through poetry. The Reading Teacher, … Continued
The ‘wh’ letter combination can be pronounced /w/ with the ‘h’ not pronounced (e.g., white). It can be pronounced /h/ with the ‘w’ not pronounced (e.g., who) and in some dialects of English it is pronounced /hw/. The placement of … Continued