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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 […]

Illiteracy linked to poor mental health

Posted on 7th February 20236th June 2024 in Language and Communication Difficulties, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, structured literacy and tagged #learning to read, article, illiteracy, literacy failure in schools, mental health, research, science of reading, structured literacyLeave a Comment

During mental health week, we think it is important to highlight the link between mental health and illiteracy. Illiteracy causes poor life outcomes, poor health, depression and poverty leading to crime. The Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Therapies at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has just reported on the global problem of poor […]

Teaching the rope

Posted on 24th January 20236th June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Disadvantaged Pupils, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, SEN, Synthetic Phonics and tagged alphabetic code, article, DfE validation, English curriculum, how to teach reading, Phonics, Reading Fluency, reading rope, research, science of reading, SEND, teach SEND children to readLeave a Comment

Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy (pp. 97-110). New York: Guilford Press. The Reading Rope was developed by Dr. Hollis Scarborough to provide a framework for understanding the different skills that are necessary […]