Jul 13, 2022 | Foundational Skills
Along with being taught how to sound out words, students should be taught, from the earliest stages, the morphology of words. As I noted in the last blog, being aware of the underlying morphemic structures of words aids both reading and writing. For the word does,...
May 11, 2022 | Foundational Skills
Morphology: A Key Foundational Skill Initially, students are taught to use phonological information to read words. This works well for words such as hat and pet, which have spellings that are easily...
Apr 6, 2022 | Foundational Skills
Better Start Literacy The Better Start Literacy Approach has been highly successful in developing the literacy of year 1 (kindergarten) students with low language in New Zealand. Students provided with Better Start outperformed students taught with the schools’...
Nov 6, 2020 | Foundational Skills, Instruction
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...
Oct 14, 2020 | Foundational Skills
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...
Oct 13, 2020 | 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,...
