Preparing your pre-schooler to learn to read: skills to focus on first
What can we do to help our pre-schoolers get ready to read without being accused of helicopter-parenting? A lazy Google search will confirm there are…
“I’m not a child!” How to get help for a teenager or adult you love who can’t read
Imagine for a moment that you can’t read or write; even at a basic level: How would you apply for, find or hold down work?…
How to find out if your child has a reading problem (and how to choose the right treatment approach)
There’s so much nonsense out there about kids’ reading problems and treatments. Unfortunately, lots of education, technology, and health businesses cash in on parents’ concerns…
What else helps struggling readers? The evidence for “morphological awareness” training
We’ve talked a lot about the “Big 5” essential skills kids need to master to learn to read. But phonological awareness, vocabulary, synthetic phonics, comprehension and…
Kick-start your child’s reading with speech sound knowledge (phonological awareness)
To learn to read properly, phonological awareness is: one of the Big Five skills kids need to know; and one of the three so-called ‘cognitive foundations’…