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,…
Banter Quick Tips: the p, t, k ‘whisper’ trick
School’s back, and lots of Kindergarteners are learning to connect their letters to sounds so they can read. We can help them with the /p-t-k/…
Early reading instruction: why focus on vowels?
When working with students with early reading difficulties – including students with phonological speech sound disorders, limited phonological awareness, developmental language disorder, and students at…
When assessing Kindergarten and Year 1 students for reading difficulties, we should always test spelling. Here’s why.
A while back, a worried parent asked me why I was planning to test her early Year 1 child’s spelling skills when the child’s main…
Too many children can’t read. We know what to do. But how should we do it?
The goal is clear. You wouldn’t know it from Twitter, but literacy researchers, teachers, speech-language pathologists, education psychologists, and reading tutors all want the same…