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What Do You Do if Phonics Doesn’t Seem to Be Helping Your Learners?
Challenging the myth: Phonics is essential for those with Dyslexia when taught correctly.
Screen Time That Teaches
In a world where screens dominate much of children’s free time, it’s easy to view TV as just another distraction. But what if these TV shows – often dismissed as entertainment – are helping to build foundational literacy skills? Let’s explore the connection between children’s TV programmes and their journey to becoming fluent readers.
National Writing Day and Transactional Writing
Discover the power of transactional writing as our CEO, Sarah Ledger, shares her thoughts on this often overlooked form of writing. Gain valuable strategies and techniques to effectively teach and scaffold descriptive and creative writing.
The Teacher’s Guide to a Smooth Primary to Secondary Transition
This useful teacher’s guide will help ease the primary to secondary transition, with practical advice and strategies you can use to get your learners ‘secondary-ready’.
5 Tips for Developing Reading Fluency in Secondary Schools
Reading fluency is needed to access all aspects of the curriculum and we're here to help with our top tips for developing reading fluency.
How to Teach Phonics in Secondary Schools
Phonics are becoming a more and more prevalent issue at secondary level. It’s something that secondary teachers need to get comfortable teaching and we’re here to help with ‘How to Teach Phonics at Secondary Level’.
The Importance of Disciplinary Literacy in Addressing the Post-Pandemic Phonics Gap
Phonics is essential for building reading skills, especially after COVID-19 disrupted education. Systematic instruction and interventions help learners catch up quickly.
How to Read Educational Data When Choosing an Intervention Programme
It can be hard to go through and fully understand all the data you're provided with when looking for an educational intervention programme. That's why we take you through the complexities of educational data, so you can find the right programme for you.
How to Teach Dyslexic Students: Teach the Need, Not the Label
Lexonik takes you through vital steps you need to consider when teaching dyslexic students. Covering how to motivate them, how to get them to reach their potential, what resources to use and more.
What Is Reading Fluency and How Do We Achieve It?
Reading fluency relies on automaticity, word recognition and prosody. Its a phrase that we see banded about with great emphasis and importance, becoming an area of focus for Ofsted in recent times, especially in secondary schools. But what actually are the concepts that make up reading fluency and how do we achieve them?
The Phonics Check
The phonics check helps teachers assess decoding skills, not just sight vocabulary, ensuring early intervention for students at risk of falling behind later.
Five tips for improving oral language, speed and vocabulary at home
With Covid impacting young children’s language skills, parents and teachers can promote vocabulary growth through techniques like using synonyms, hidden definitions, real-world examples, contrasts, and morphemic analysis.
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