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,…
Banter Quick Tips: The stretchy-sound trick: How I teach beginners to read their first words
Once a student has learned their first letter-sound links, I step up to words straight away. The whole point of reading is to read words! To…
Banter Quick Tips: My favourite sequence to teach letter-sound links to beginners and struggling readers
So we need to teach beginners how to link letters to speech sounds. Here are some tips: To make things easier for parents and teachers,…
Helping children learn ‘book language’, with free resources
So the latest issue of Nomanis has been published by MultiLit. And I’m thrilled it includes an article by me! It’s about preschoolers and school-age children…