Do your students struggle to remember the meanings of the suffixes -ness and -ment? Mine did until I came up with a simple memory trick for them.What is the Meaning of Suffixes -ness & -ment?B … read more

We've all heard words like "aqueduct" and "hydrogen" and maybe even words such as "hydrocephalus" and "aquarellist". But, do you know how these words are all related? They hail from Greek (hydro) … read more

As with Phonics First®, in Structures®, we teach several prefixes and suffixes. In Phonics First®, we focus more on reading and spelling with the affixes, but in Structures®, we also focus on the m … read more

Earlier this week, a teacher emailed a fantastic question her students had raised. After reading it, I couldn’t believe I had never paid much attention to it. (Don’t you just love how observant ki … read more

Have you ever marveled at how the sway of stress in a sentence can change its entire meaning? Stress is the art of the accented syllable – an essential yet often overlooked aspect of the English l … read more

Where was Scarborough's Reading Rope back when I started teaching? After going through college as an education major in the 90s, the complexities of reading, including how one learns to read and co … read more