A positive relationship exists between sensitivity to rhythm and progress in reading.
We receive mixed messages regarding the benefits and harms of screens for children and young people. In this post, the direct and indirect impacts of digital devices are discussed. The aim of this post is to strike a balance between the findings of large scale surveys and the lived experiences of individual families.
Although the SEN crisis may be a driver of the issues at the heart of our lost generation of children there are in fact three layers of loss that we need to consider. Let’s begin with low school attendance and the rise in home schooling.
Scope exists for disciplined innovation in schools. If schools were encouraged to extend conventional approaches to the teaching of early reading, and if this was done in a systematic, rigorous and methodical way, many children would benefit.
In this post I invite you to consider ways in which a focus on empathy can mitigate the challenges of social disadvantage and boost reading comprehension.
“It’s only an hour that they have with your over the time that you come in over the six weeks and for it to be able to make, for a lot of them, up to a year’s difference in their reading ability is quite amazing really.”
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