Every educator can relate to this episode as it delves into the complex issue of students encountering difficulties in reading. Our Literacy Talks podcast hosts approach this issue through various lenses, revisiting the essentials of effective reading instruction,...
The Five Must-Know Phonetic Skills When children are young, they often rely solely on phonetics to read and spell. Phonetics is the study of speech sounds. When novice writers spell phonetically, they “sound out” the word they want to write and record one letter for...
Why and How to Use Nonsense Words When Teaching Reading By the time most of us first encountered Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, we were fluent readers. However, I am sure that you can recall the sense of...
8 Classroom Accommodations for Dyslexia (That Benefit ALL Students) Dyslexia is a language-based learning difference that manifests in a cluster of symptoms. Students with dyslexia have challenges with reading, spelling, writing, and pronouncing words. Dyslexia is not...
How to effectively support struggling readers during distance learning Education specialists dive into how educators and parents can support struggling readers, ELL students, and students with dyslexia in an at-home learning environment. This article was originally...
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