Motivation to read is not enough
When I was 4, I was hooked on Sesame Street. I was obsessed with Count von Count and his amazing musicianship! I decided to become…
Banter Quick Tips: 7 inflectional morphemes to help beginners to read sentences!
So English is a morpho-phonemic language, which means we need to teach more than letter-sound links and high frequency irregular sight words. To read sentences, beginners…
No guessing! How to build early reading accuracy, then speed with a FREE resource
This may shock you, but I’m not a gym guy. It’s hard and boring and I’m not good at it! If I can talk my…
Banter Quick Tips: Teach beginners these consonant digraphs (not clusters or blends)!
We have a big problem in written English: we don’t have enough letters for all the consonant speech sounds! So we represent some consonant speech…
Banter Quick Tips: Phonics or sight words? Why it’s the wrong question; and where we should start
Phonics or sight words? I get this question a lot, and I understand why. On the surface, written English seems chaotic: But, under the hood,…