How I teach the extended code
Once beginners have learned the basics of word reading (basic code, blending and segmenting, short vowel spotting, inflectional morphemes, split vowel digraphs, vowel-and affix-based strategies…
Reading fluency interventions can help primary school students with reading difficulties
To transition from learning to read to reading to learn, students must learn to read fluently. Reading fluency is the ability to read accurately, at…
Can technology-based interventions help children with reading difficulties?
Yes. In several studies, technology-based reading programs have showed a positive effect for a variety of students with different needs and skills, and some technology-based…
New decodable Scatter-Slayer Adventure: The Nervous Furnace Workers’ Well-Earned Liberation
We can’t think of a better way to work on <er ir ur wor> and <ear> than with a silly tale about an evil surfboard…
Free resources to help our preschoolers and primary school-age kids to read
To help our kids to read, we need good tools to put independent, peer-reviewed research into practice. Decades of evidence-building tells us that kids need phonological awareness, vocabulary, synthetic phonics, comprehension and fluency skills…