Insights and opinion on current topics in literacy teaching from Dr Katharine Barden
Bringing together research and practice for teachers, tutors and parents interested in supporting older children and teenagers who struggle with literacy.
How to teach adolescents to read long words
Adolescents who struggle to read long words need to be taught explicit strategies to divide words into chunks, but what is the best way to do this?
Can we measure the effectiveness of ‘morphology instruction’?
This post discusses why it can be tricky to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of ‘morphological instruction’.