Across the country several school children feel a sense of impending doom as the dreaded weekly spelling test looms. This is because several of our pupils will have worked hard all week learning a list of words for a test and just know that despite their best...
Arguably, reading is the gateway to curriculum access and therefore learning. We ask our pupils to be able to read information in every subject that we teach. If they can’t do this in its most functional sense, then learning becomes difficult. Here is a jarring...
Why is spelling so tricky for some? Perhaps, it is because there are so many processes to manage. For example, you have to: Isolate sounds in words and then translate those sounds into print.Recall spelling rules — and the exceptions.Choose between different words...
How do you spell the word ‘fish’? I bet you are wondering why I’ve asked su ch a simple question aren’t you? I bet that some of you are scratching your heads at my question whilst internally saying: ‘everyone knows that you spell fish like this: f-i-s-h and, we all...
If only ‘doing a read’ was as simple as it sounds. We often take for granted that the children and young people that we support will have the skills to make the words on a page magically travel through their eyes, into their brains and be spoken accurately from their...
