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“That everyone should have the right to free access to literacy, at any time, in any way that may help them, regardless of distance or disadvantages or ability to pay.”
Short index
A Can adults read? An ultimate test of comprehension- adultread.htm
B - Books worth reading - and add your own
C - Classroom barriers to literacy: /litbar.html
Comprehension in reading - an ultimate test - adultread.htm
D - Spelling guides in children's dictionaries, literacy DVD
D - Dyslexia. A quick test for dyslexia - /dyslexiatest.htm, and some sources of help
E - Encyclopedia . An art treasure not to lose - Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia
F- Free help for reading and spelling - News about online website and DVD
L - Learning styles of older failing learners: /lernstyl.htm
- Literacy Innovations - litinovations.html
- Lessons - a set of 21 simple lessons. See index below.
O - Online overview of what it helps to know www.ozreadandspell.com.au
P -Paired reading - HOW TO really help learners by the way you read with them - /lpaired.htm
- Print. Making print more interesting and helpful - /lprinth.htm - Illustrated by a calendar of the months showing ways to make print itself more interesting and give clues to reading
S - More about Spelling and how it could be improved
Self-help aid for literacy - www.ozreadandspell.com.au
T - Test then Teach
A quick test for dyslexia
An ultimate comprehension test adultread.htm
V - Vocabulary. Finding the meaning through Latin and Greek roots.
The game of Babl to learn vocabulary clues /babl.htm
W - Writing systems of the world and their reforms
Alternative covers for literacy DVD
April 2007
Updated Literacy DVD news and FAQ
ABC picture chart, as used in child-play video
Children preparing to read through free play
Short video of free play in a Scottish nursery school
http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au/playtoread.htm
Children learning ABC letters - developmental stages
in free play http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au/abcplay.htm_________________
See submission 144 to the Australian government's Nelson Inquiry into Reading .PDF at
http://www.dest.gov.au/nitl/submissions/141-160.htm
This submission focuses on some neglected factors in teaching and learning how to read books: identifying barriers to literacy in classrooms; preventing barriers to literacy in homes; barriers to literacy in books for children; why so many teachers and learners hate phonics and what can be done; improving teacher-training; self-help in learning for beginners and for failing learners; multimedia in the classroom; assessing reading and innovative tests that teach; and, lastly, research that is needed. The writer is a clinical child psychologist, school psychologist, academic, and teacher.
Download and copy what you like.
"Help yourself to read and spell, or find out where you got stuck"
Hearing sounds in words,
Letters,
Letters in words,
Spelling and how to cope with it, and
Putting clues together to read what you want to read.
What it helps to know to read and spell in 21 simple lessons(These look lively on some browsers but on some others they may look dull)
The concept of self-help in literacy, as a complementary aid - v01litselfhelp.htm
An account of a video and its lessons /tytr.htm,
lthytr.html and /v01acover.htmSummary of content. /tytrcontent.htm
Picture indexes of the lessons. /v02content1.htm. /v02content2.htm and /v02content3.htmSongs and story /tytrsongs.htm
1. Hearing sounds in words - /v01hear.htm
2. Alphabet letters and sounds - /v02abc1.htm and - /v02abc2.htm and - /v02abc3.htm and - /v02abc4.htm
3.Letter shapes /and consonants 03shapes.htm
4. When two letters make one sound -/v04digraf.htm
5. Switching letters around to make new words. -/v05switch.htm
6. The vowel sounds in cartoon style- /v06vowels.htm
7. The easiest vowel sounds a e i o u - /v07aeiou.htm
8. The 'long' vowel sounds as in A E I O U - /v08longv.htm
9. The most common words. - /v09commonwords.htm
10. How to look at spellings. - /v10look.htm
11. Where English spelling comes from. - /v11maps.htm
12. Spellings from Old English and French. - /v12oefrench.htm
13. Spellings from Greek -/v13greek.htm14. Spellings from Latin. - /v14latin.htm
15. How to play the word-root game BABL - /v15babl.htm
16. Reading another song. - /v16parlour.htm
17. Vowel sounds as in ar er air or/ aw - /v17arer.htm
18. Vowel sounds as in ow oy oo (moon) oo (look) - /v18owoy.htm
19. Using all the clues for reading - /v19readclues.htm
20 Two spelling tips.- /v20spelltips.htm
21. The most common spellings for vowels. - /v21vowelspel.htm
22. A checklist to print or download and copy for what you knew already and what you learnt from the lessons.
Colored picture checklist - /v22colorchecklist.htm
Black-and-white checklist for easy fotocopying. - /vbwchecklist.htm
