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Month: March 2017

Reading in text
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Reading in text

March 21, 2017February 12, 2022 John

This post is written for readers who already have some knowledge of how a good quality phonics programme, cumulatively structured, is organised and how it can be exploited to enable pupils, even at the level of Year 1/2, to read and write virtually any word in the English language. My starting point would be to… Continue reading Reading in text

Morphology
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Morphology

March 15, 2017August 8, 2017 John2 Comments

What with one thing and another, there’s a lot of pressure on teachers today. Grammar and word study has suddenly assumed much greater proportions and one aspect of grammar somebody was asking me about the other day was morphology.  The conversation went like this: Teacher: I’ve got to teach my class about morphology. Me: Okay.… Continue reading Morphology

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