Although I’ve been asked this question a number of times in the past, today I was confronted with it again. The question was: ‘What should I do about my boy? He hates writing.’ So, assuming that the boy wasn’t given some kind of emotional or physical shock when he first picked up a pencil, there are… Continue reading What to do about the boy who hates writing

At Sounds-Write, we always begin each section of our teaching programme with word building? There are three main reasons: First, we are teaching children that spellings stand for sounds in the language – our threshold concept. All children learn the sounds of their language without having to be taught explicitly. All they need is exposure.… Continue reading 3 Reasons why segmenting is the mother of all skills in learning to read and spell