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Why word-building is the number one lesson we should be teaching

Posted on 7th September 20223rd June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, structured literacy, Synthetic Phonics, systematic phonics and tagged #learning to read, article, beginner readers, explain word building, how to teach phonics, how to teach reading to a dyslexic pupil, learning to spell, phonics activities, segmenting and blending, what is word building?, word-buildingLeave a Comment

Of all the strategies used for teaching reading, I believe that word-building is the most powerful. Why is that? Word-building incorporates two fundamental skills in learning to read: as children build a word, they learn to segment and blend. When we ask children to build a word, e.g., ‘map’ they need to segment the phonemes […]

Teacher explains her method for achieving fantastic reading results using Totem and Talisman series

Posted on 5th December 201230th July 2021 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Reading Difficulties and tagged accelerated learning, how to teach a struggling reader to read, how to teach reading to a dyslexic pupil, teaching dsylexic pupils to read, teaching struggling readers, teaching tips for dyslexicsLeave a Comment

Teachers have written in and asked Anne which method she uses to achieve such success (see table in Remarkable Results…. post below) using the Totem and Talisman series. Here is her answer: