Unlocking the door

December 8, 2020

A pendulum swings on the grandfather clock

Left is PHONICS,

Right is VISUAL

When do we just ....

STOP THE CLOCK!!!!!

When will we acknowledge that some children are highly visual learners. Some children are highly auditory learners and some are in between with tendency to one side or the other.

Why Keys to Reading works

When explaining and teaching Keys to Reading we always focus on the question “WHY?”

The reality is if a child asks why something is the way it is, then they are clearly engaged in the subject. Keys teaches all aspects of literacy by answering WHY something is done or WHY it is better to do it in a certain way.

Creating lifelong readers

Parents may worry about whether their children will be readers so when I read a recent interview by journalist Joe Pinsker with Dr Daniel Willingham*, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, he pointed to a number of factors within people’s control to attain the vital skill of reading.