The Building Literacy Blog
This blog has been created to explore key topics and issues, such as reading disability/dyslexia, distance learning, effective materials and techniques, reading level vs. grade level instruction, and use of technology.
The Building Literacy Blog will also provide teaching tips, research briefs, reviews of professional books and student materials, and more.
Assessing Students’ Ability to Read Multisyllabic Words
A first step in developing syllabic analysis is to assess students’ ability to read multisyllabic words. Students’ syllabic analysis ability can be assessed in running records, informal reading inventories, oral fluency tests, and word lists tests by analyzing...
Importance of Teaching Students to Read Multisyllabic Words
As they progress through the grades, most students eventually learn phonics and become adept at deciphering single syllable words. However, a significant number of students have difficulty applying their knowledge of phonics to multisyllabic words. Alicia is a...
Revised Intervention Program
I have just published Beginnings, the last component of Building Foundational Literacy, an intervention program that includes provision for the most severely disabled readers. Building Foundational Literacy is a revision of Word Building, which has been used in...
Assessing Foundational Skills
With their schooling having been interrupted by Covid-19, it is more important than ever to find out which foundational skills students have learned and which skills need to be developed. There is a temptation to begin at the beginning and reteach skills. However,...