The Importance of Blending Skills in Literacy

What Are Blending Skills? Blending is one of the most important early literacy skills for children learning to read. It means combining individual speech sounds (phonemes) to form whole words. For example, recognising that /c/ – /a/ – /t/ blends into “cat.” This skill...

A Synthetic Phonics Approach Works BEST

Helping children with dyslexia learn to read requires a thoughtful, supportive approach, combining structured reading strategies with patient, positive reinforcement. Dyslexia is a language-based learning difficulty that primarily affects the ability to decode words,...