by Dr. Garforth | Aug 12, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday! Morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning in a word. Morphological Awareness refers to an understanding of these meaningful units in words. Morphological awareness is a very important piece of the literacy pie and one that is often left out in...
by Dr. Garforth | Aug 9, 2019 | Phonemic Awareness, Phonological Fridays
Happy #PhonologicalFriday! Today we will discuss the highest level of phonological awareness, phonemic awareness. What is Phonemic Awareness? Simply put, it is the ability for an individual to focus on and manipulate the phonemes in words. ...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 29, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday! Just as a refresher, morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning in the English language. It is important to explicitly teach students to about morphemes throughout their schooling to help develop their morphological awareness. This week, the...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 22, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #MorphemeMonday everyone! Thanks for joining the quest in expanding our students’ decoding skills beyond the basics of sound-symbol relationships to the higher level of morphological awareness. Just as a reminder, morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 15, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays
This week you will learn about a prefix that is good to teach students once they already know several morphemes, a root that is best left for experienced students and a suffix that is one of the first morphemes you should teach. Let’s stop to review a few of the...
by Dr. Garforth | Jun 21, 2019 | Learning Disabilities
The diagnosis, Specific Learning Disorders, is technically still pretty new, but it does not mean it is a new disorder. In reality, it is the rebranding of Specific Learning Disabilities to reflect how it is perceived in the medical field and includes two significant...
by Dr. Garforth | Jun 18, 2019 | Fine Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills for Tweens & Teens It is a fact of life that children grow up into tweens and teens whether we like it or not. As they get older, it gets harder to get them to work on developing their Fine Motor Skills. Many of the activities that are...
by Dr. Garforth | May 29, 2019 | Learning Disabilities, Parents
Are Children with Learning Challenges at Greater Risk in French immersion? ** A guest post by Dr. Nancy Wise** What is French immersion? The French immersion (FI) program was developed more than 50 years ago in response to parental demands for an educational program...
by Dr. Garforth | May 21, 2019 | Learning Disabilities
Yesterday I received a message from a teacher in Northern British Columbia that brought me to tears. She wrote to me asking for help with one of her students, who is significantly behind her peers in reading. This family has a history of dyslexia, so that means there...
by Dr. Garforth | May 17, 2019 | Executive Functioning
What are Executive Functions? Executive functions are cognitive (brain-based) processes an individual uses to concentrate, pay attention and get things done. They are sometimes referred to as executive control, cognitive control, or executive skills. Executive...
