Dr Susan Rennie · Scripps National Spelling Bee · The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary

The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary and the Scripps National Spelling Bee

As it’s half-term, I thought I’d draw readers attention to a couple of items you might have missed. First up, the Oxford University Press have just published the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary. It’s been produced by Susan Rennie, a lecturer in English and Scots language at the University of Glasgow, where she works on a… Continue reading The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary and the Scripps National Spelling Bee

linguistic phonics · Maggie Downie

Linguistic v traditional phonics – an afterword

Thanks to reminder in a tweet from Maggie Downie, I’m adding a further point to my previous post ‘Linguistic v traditional phonics’. As I’m always arguing, linguistic phonics gives primacy to the spoken language. The reason is because all children grow up learning the spoken language naturally, which is not the case with written language!… Continue reading Linguistic v traditional phonics – an afterword

linguistic phonics · sound-to-print · Sounds-Write · traditional phonics

Linguistic phonics v traditional phonics

Given that for many researchers working in the field of beginning reading and writing it is axiomatic that teachers should be adopting a synthetic phonics approach, the next question is: should that approach be graphemic, as Letters and Sounds is; or, should it be phonemic, as Sounds-Write, Sound Reading System, and That Reading Thing are?… Continue reading Linguistic phonics v traditional phonics