Oral Language and Literacy Development: Why It Matters
Understanding Oral Language: Why It’s Vital for Reading, Writing, and Spelling Oral language and literacy development rely on several interlinked components. Any one of them can be weak and weaknesses in multiple components often underlie reading, writing, or spelling...
Speech Goals for School Readiness – Back‑to‑School Tips for Parents
Speech is the foundation of all learning. Children who struggle may also experience challenges in reading, spelling, writing, and social interactions.
Part 9: Red Flags Predicting Reading Failure
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools Part 9: Conclusion - Putting it all together: RED FLAGS predicting reading failure This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading, spelling, and writing as a natural extension from...
Part 8: Complexity of Mapping Across Language Levels
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools Part 8: The Complexity of Mapping/Integrating ACROSS Language Levels and Units This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading, spelling, and writing as a natural extension from oral...
Speech goals your child needs for back to school!
School readiness!! Is Your Child Ready for Back to School in September? The speech goals outlined in this post are to help give parents tips on what speech skills they need to focus on to prepare their child for school readiness. There are certain bench marks that...
Blog Series: Integration of Language Levels and Language Units: Visual to Oral language – Part 7
Part 7: Integration of Language Levels and Language Units: Visual to Oral language However, note that this process occurs across Language Levels or Units! It is NOT just words. We have already outlined how LETTERS become associated with the brain. Consider...
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools – Part 6
Blog Series: Why we should STOP teaching reading in schools This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading, spelling, and writing as a natural extension from oral language to visual language. This blog series describes what reading IS – the...
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools – Part 5
The text emphasizes the importance of connecting visual and oral language systems in vocabulary acquisition. It warns against solely relying on visual recognition and highlights the significance of correctly mapping sounds to letters for word comprehension. It discusses the challenges students face when mapping irregular words and the implications for overall language development.
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools – Part 4
This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading, spelling, and writing as a natural extension from oral language to visual language.
This blog series describes what reading IS – the integration of visual language (letters) into already-existing oral language processing systems (sounds, words, and vocabulary).
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools – Part 3
This blog series describes what reading IS – the integration of visual language (letters) into
already-existing oral language processing systems (sounds, words, and vocabulary).
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools – Part 2
This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading, spelling, and writing as a natural extension from oral language to visual language. This blog series describes what reading IS – the integration of visual language (letters) into already-existing oral language processing systems (sounds, words, and vocabulary).
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools – Part 1
Blog Series: Why We should STOP teaching reading in schools Part 1: What are the components of Oral language? This blog series explores the development of Written Language: reading, spelling, and writing as a natural extension from oral language to visual language....