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...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 6, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! Can you believe that today marks the one year anniversary of #morphememondays!?! I created #morphememonday as a response to an article I read about the importance of morphological awareness. As I was reading the article, I remember...
by Dr. Garforth | Jul 5, 2020 | IEP
I.E.P or 504 PLAN ** A guest post by Diana Prowitt ** When a child needs help educationally there are two choices, a 504 Plan and an IEP. Both can provide accommodations and supports but the only one allows for special education services and specialized...
by Dr. Garforth | Jun 30, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! I hope you are doing well. This week we are going to discuss a French suffix for a change. Origin: Latin Definition: to, toward Examples: adjacent, adhesive, adjective, advice, adverb <ad> + <mit> ->...
by Dr. Garforth | Jun 26, 2020 | Phonological Fridays
Happy #phonologicalfriday everyone! I hope you are doing well. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I like to find logic in the English language. I think it is important that educators can tell students why things are spelled a certain way. A few...
by Dr. Garforth | Jun 22, 2020 | Morpheme Mondays
Happy #morphememonday everyone! Can you believe we are coming up to the anniversary of #morphememondays? The first #morphememonday was July 8th 2019 and we have covered so much since then. Origin: Latin & Greek Definition: forward, in favor of, before Examples:...
