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20.10.21 Interesting information, facts and events

Another week has gone by quickly. I do hope you managed to get through last week’s blog all about the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy. I did have some lovely feedback from a couple of teachers who had read it all and advised me that it was really informative. I realised afterwards though thatContinue reading “20.10.21 Interesting information, facts and events”

15.10.21 Structured Literacy and Science of Reading

Well, as I mentioned in my previous blog, last week I received an email from Mike Jones, who is the CEO and founder of Nessy.com and he approved of my blog, suggesting that I use this platform to also share my understanding of the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy. Nessy and other dyslexic programmesContinue reading “15.10.21 Structured Literacy and Science of Reading”

8.10.21 Neurodiversity

October is a time to make more people aware of neurodiversity. Don’t forget to look at the ‘Dyslexia’ page on this site for more information and videos (such as the one below from the British Dyslexia Association). Watch and share these videos (including some from famous celebrities) to help promote a better understanding of dyslexia.Continue reading “8.10.21 Neurodiversity”

1.10.21 – Dyslexia Awareness month

During the month of October there are lots of Dyslexia Awareness days throughout the world to try and ensure that there is a greater understanding of dyslexia. The British Dyslexia Association have activities going on throughout their Dyslexia Week 4-10 October. https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/support-us/awareness-events/dyslexia-awareness-week/dyslexia-week-2021 The British Dyslexia Association are focusing on invisible challenges that come with dyslexia.Continue reading “1.10.21 – Dyslexia Awareness month”

25.9.21 Reading and Spelling

Well, this has been quite a week. On Tuesday, I had the wonderful news that the Nessy educational company had posted a link to this site on their facebook page, telling their followers to check out my blog as it was ‘filled with information and teaching tips’. Wow! My blog has now had over 500Continue reading “25.9.21 Reading and Spelling”

Writing, Reading and Training

If you are reading today’s blog on your email, don’t forget you can click onto the blog to read it clearer. I will be updating the Spelling Rules page each week, but if you want a rule on there that I haven’t put up yet, just message me on the contact page and I willContinue reading “Writing, Reading and Training”

Writing numbers, segmenting words and some free activities

Wow, that week went quickly! Life always seems to rush by, so I really liked this quote I saw earlier this week, which stated ‘You should spend at least 20 minutes a day out in nature………….unless you’re too busy, in which case make it one hour!’ Keep safe and well. STRATEGIES TO HELP SEGMENT FORContinue reading “Writing numbers, segmenting words and some free activities”

Free resources for parents and Reading Framework

4.9.21 Hello there, I hope you are all having a good weekend and thank you to all the new subscribers. I will probably update this site just once a week, so don’t worry, you won’t be inundated with emails 🙂 . Each week I will let you know what I have been finding out thatContinue reading “Free resources for parents and Reading Framework”

Dyslexia Masterclass for Parents

31.8.21 Just a quick blog to tell anybody who is interested (or if you can let anyone know who you think would benefit) that Dyslexia Scotland is providing a Masterclass for Parents to help their children when they go back to school. The event is free on zoom tomorrow (1st September) at 3.30pm and theContinue reading “Dyslexia Masterclass for Parents”

Talking about Nessy etc

28.8.21 I like to use the Nessy programme (Nessy.com/uk/) to supplement existing phonics/literacy programmes for individual students to practise their phonics learning on the computer. Nessy provides tuition and games starting with the early skills of identifying individual phonemes and progresses to teaching and giving practise of complicated spelling rules. Nessy is not just forContinue reading “Talking about Nessy etc”