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 | 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 5, 2020 | Phonological Fridays
Happy #phonologicalfriday everyone! This week’s activity is designed to help students with the highest level of phonological awareness, phonemic awareness. Before we get into this week’s activity using Elkonin or Sound boxes, we should review some terminology. A...
by Dr. Garforth | May 29, 2020 | Phonological Fridays
Over the last several weeks, #phonologicalfriday has been focusing on syllables. This is the sixth post in a 7 part series on syllable types written by Massey University’s Dr. Tom Nicholson. He has previously written on closed syllables, open...
by Dr. Garforth | May 8, 2020 | Phonological Fridays
What is the Schwa? According to Gina Cooke (2008a), the schwa is: “the Language Arts teacher’s nemesis: the unstressed, toneless, neutral vowel sound that is the most common sound in all of English.” Technically speaking, the schwa is an unstressed vowel sound...
by Dr. Garforth | Apr 24, 2020 | Phonological Fridays, Uncategorized
Happy #PhonologicalFriday! This week we will discuss what Graphophonemic Awareness is. First, let us review a few key concepts: A phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of speech. Phonemic awareness is the ability to manipulate sounds within a word. A...
