by Optima | Sep 23, 2019 | Research into Core Instructional Principles
The value of teaching high frequency words to beginning readers as part of a ‘sight vocabulary’ (i.e. words read according to their orthography rather than according to their phonology) has been called into question by those advocating an exclusive role for synthetic...
by Optima | Sep 23, 2019 | Research into Core Instructional Principles
A similar article to ‘Optimal Sight Vocabulary’ is being prepared which identifies the optimal phonic skills to teach beginning readers. Researchers have suggested that there as many as 461 different phonic rules to teach. One well known programme teaches 120 and the...
