by Dr. Garforth | Jul 20, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! I hope you are doing well and enjoyed your weekend. This week we will be focusing on a Latin prefix and root and an Old English suffix. Origin: Latin Definition: with, together Examples: collegiate, collateral, colloquialism,...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 13, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! I have been writing about morphemes every week for over a year now. This week I thought I would write about why morphological awareness is so important and why every reader of English should learn about it. Before we go further, let’s...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 10, 2020 | Phonological Fridays
Happy #phonologicalfriday everyone! This week we are going to be focusing on more than just phonology, we will be discussing many of the complex skills related to skilled reading development. In 2001, Dr. Hollis Scarborough introduced Scarborough’s Reading Rope as a...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 8, 2020 | Reading Science
Even though reading is a very complex process where we have to retrain our brain to use components that were originally designed for something else, it can be boiled down to three elements. These elements are decoding, language comprehension, and reading...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 7, 2020 | Reading Science
Simply put, phonics instruction is teaching someone the relationship between the speech sounds (phonemes) in our spoken language and how they relate to the letter or letters (graphemes) of the alphabet. Technically speaking, this is considered to be graphophonemic...
