A Guide To Teaching Handwriting
How to Use the Literacy Support Kit (LSK) Handrwiting Resources Why Handwriting Is Important Handwriting mastery is crucial for developing kids’ confidence and kinaesthetic memory, freeing up working memory, and enabling students to focus better on spelling. Handwriting is public, and it can become a source of humiliation for kids who struggle with it. Often, […]
Teaching The Alphabet – Guide
How to Use the Literacy Support Kit (LSK) Alphabet Resources Introducing the alphabet early while explicitly teaching phonemes one by one has multiple purposes and is grounded in research about how children learn to read and write. Early Familiarity with Symbols Teaching the alphabet gives kids an immediate sense of the symbols they will encounter […]
Free Webinar – Word Cracking Demonstration
Unlock Literacy Success: Replay of the Word Cracker Webinar on new features and Literacy Intervention. We are thrilled to offer you the opportunity to watch the replay of our recent webinar, where we delved into the extensive features and functionalities of Word Cracker, an essential tool for enhancing literacy through morphological intervention. Hosted by Bill […]
-ic Endings Add ‘k’ Rule
This is a tricky spelling rule because you need to be familiar with a number of rules for it to make sense. When words end with -ic, and we add a vowel suffix that begins with e, i or y, we need to add a k. e.g. panic+ing becomes panicking. Preceding this, we recommend kids […]
St Peter’s Woodlands And Word Cracking
Why 96% of St Peters Woodlands year-one students perform at, or above, literacy benchmarks! Watch the Video and read on to discover exactly how St Peter’s Woodlands Grammar School transformed their literacy education by embedding the science of reading across the whole school, using explicit direct instruction principles and Word Cracker morphology resources and tools. […]
Sample Lesson -Suffix-s
The student(s) are introduced to the consonant suffix: Student(s) are also introduced to the terms: NOUN: A word for a person, place or thing. VERB: An action, doing or being word. SUFFIX: A letter or a group of letters added to the end of a base word, it changes the meaning slightly. For Playberry© students, this […]
Teaching morphology in the classroom
Word Cracker resources are built to be used to teach morphology no matter which scope and sequence a school use. However, the Word cracker includes a suggested progression and sequence for teaching morphology in the classroom. Our member’s section has detailed lesson suggestions that provide everything you need to explicitly teach important aspects of morphology […]
What is morphology?
Phonemes and graphemes If you have been teaching reading and spelling in line with evidence, then you’re familiar with the –emes; phonemes and graphemes that make up the –ology that we’ve all become very used to teaching, talking about and assessing – phonology! Phonology is non-by-passable stage of reading and spelling development, but we know […]
Prefix sub
The student(s) are introduced to the prefix ‘sub’ meaning under or below. … This page is for members only. If you want to check it out, it’s only $4.99 for the first month. For access to everything!
Prefix trans
The student(s) are introduced to prefix ‘trans’ meaning across or through. … This page is for members only. If you want to check it out, it’s only $4.99 for the first month. For access to everything!