Articles tagged with: develop vocabulary

Pronunciation and the development of vocabulary

Posted on 21st February 20233rd June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, structured literacy and tagged article, benefits of wide reading, comprehension, develop vocabulary, expanding vocabulary, meaning in context, mispronunciation, phonic pronunciation, reading skills, research, teaching phonicsLeave a Comment

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We all mispronounce words from time to time, especially when they are unfamiliar to us. Speech and Language Pathologist Miriam Fein explores the important link between pronunciation and the development of vocabulary. Every once in a while someone starts a thread on Twitter about words that they mispronounced for a long time because they only encountered […]

The love of reading non-fiction books

Posted on 15th February 20236th June 2024 in Language and Communication Difficulties, Learning to Read and tagged article, background knowledge, beginner readers, develop vocabulary, love of reading, non-fiction books, non-fiction for the classroom, reading comprehension, reading motivation, reading rope, the baseball study2 Comments

All too often, our classroom libraries offer a wonderful selection of fiction but only a limited amount of non-fiction. Why should we ensure that children have access to a wonderful range of non-fiction books? 1. Non-fiction books are fun Firstly, because so many non-fiction books published today are an absolute joy to read. With amazing […]

How to support children in reading complex texts

Posted on 23rd January 202225th January 2022 in Learning to Read and tagged challenging texts, develop vocabulary, reading rope, skilled readersLeave a Comment

Here at Phonic Books we usually discuss how to help children to learn to decode and become fluent readers. But as The Reading Rope shows (see graphic below) – decoding, or word recognition is only the first part of the story. I like the metaphor describing the impact of teaching systematic phonics: it will get […]