Tag Archives: orthographic mapping

What’s Meaning Got To Do With It?

Posted on 15th December 2020 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, High-Frequency Words, Learning to Read

Do you have students who persistently misread small, high-frequency words such as: “he,” “I,” “of,” “gave,” “a,” “the,” “she,” “her,” “on” or “was”? This is quite common even if older students have had remediation for decoding difficulties and have improved […]

Can Lucy Calkins’ changing views shift the way millions of children are taught to read?

Posted on 28th October 2020 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Science of Reading, Synthetic Phonics

The news has been spreading that Lucy Calkins, head of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP), has been learning about the science of reading and making changes to her guidance and widely used curricula. Throughout her career, she […]

How we can help kids to self-teach themselves to read

Posted on 5th August 2020 in High-Frequency Words, Reading Difficulties, Science of Reading, Synthetic Phonics

Have you ever wondered how kids can read words they haven’t been taught to read? I recently came across the ‘Self Teaching Hypothesis’ Share,1955. This hypothesis explains how kids use the sounds/spellings they have been taught and apply them to […]