by Dr. Garforth | Oct 19, 2019 | Phonological Fridays, Uncategorized
Happy #phonologicalfriday everyone! Over the next several weeks #phonologicalfriday will feature guest post from Dr. Tom Nicholson, an Emeritus Professor from Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. Teaching how to read long words by breaking them into syllables...
by Dr. Garforth | Oct 15, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays, Uncategorized
Happy #MorphemeMonday Everyone! Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to our Canadian Readers. I am thankful to all of my readers who are taking their own time to help support their students’ learning. Origin: Latin Definition: under, beneath, below; secondary Examples:...
by Dr. Garforth | Sep 30, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays, Uncategorized
Can you believe this is the 12th #morphememoday!?! Thank you for joining me on my morpheme movement! The importance of explicitly teaching morphology is missing from the majority of today’s classrooms. This week we will be focusing on the Greek combining form...
by Dr. Garforth | Sep 9, 2019 | Morpheme Mondays, Uncategorized
Happy #morphememonday everyone! I hope you found some way to promote literacy yesterday on UNESCO’s International Literacy Day. If you didn’t, there is no reason you can’t find a way to promote literacy any other day of the year. So in my efforts to...
by Dr. Garforth | Sep 7, 2019 | Phonemic Awareness, Phonological Fridays, Uncategorized
Happy #phonologicalfriday everyone! This week we are focusing on the smallest units of speech, the phoneme. I hope those of you who have recently returned to school in the last few weeks are enjoying a good start to the new school year. Phonemes Simply put, a phoneme...
by Dr. Garforth | Aug 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy #morphememonday! I have always thought that morphology is an important, but often missed part of reading instruction. In my own teacher education program, there was not a single mention of morphological awareness. Unfortunately, my experience was not unique,...
