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Tag Archives: spelling
Changing views on Dyslexia
The APM Report below sheds some very interesting light on how people’s opinions are starting to change about reading instruction. America Public Media (APM) Reports strive to raise awareness, trigger debate and prompt positive change via non-partisan, independent investigation and … Continue reading
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Tagged APMReports, dyslexia, dyslexiaforanewdecade, empoweringlearning, phonics, reading, spelling, wordrecognition
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Dyslexia Awareness Week
Dyslexia Awareness week 7th-11th October. Do your bright creative neurodivergent children struggle with literacy? Find out how literacy can be made much easier even for dyslexics. On Wed 9th Oct, 9:00am or 7:30pm. Come along and join our free webinar: … Continue reading
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Reading for Visual Learners
MONDAY FREE IN REDBOURN LIBRARY 2-3 pm ⭐️ Reading Workshop with Olive Hickmott ⭐️ Is your child struggling to spell or read and you don’t know how to help them? This happens to many creative, imaginative children who have other great skills! … Continue reading
Why is it easier to spell in some languages than others?
Whether we are writing/reading in English or Spanish, the challenge should be the same, but is it? Why are we teaching only phonics in a language like English that I am told is only 46% phonetically correct? How do we learn homophones … Continue reading
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Would you like a 95.15% success rate to change Dyslexia?
Recently we have been surveying Empowering Learning Practitioners to ask their success rate, when working with students. It is now well accepted that: recognising words on the page is a skill of fluent readers being able to access a mental … Continue reading
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Discover how to help your children with literacy and numeracy, for FREE: Primrose Hill, London, 28th Oct
Would you like to know more about how children learn and how you can help them improve literacy and numeracy. There is a great opportunity at learn more at a free workshop in Primrose Hill Community Library, London, Tuesday 28th … Continue reading
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Is imposing Synthetic phonics “almost abuse”
According to Andrew Davis, research fellow at Durham University, insisting that children who can already read when they start school must learn synthetic phonics is “almost a form of abuse”. There are several reports about his publication To read or … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD, almost abuse, andrew davis, Aspergers, Autism, BBC, dyslexia, ITV, literacy, numeracy, phonics, reading, spelling, Synthetic phonics, TES, Tourettes
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