iRise Education

31/12/2025

02/12/2024

Soooooo true! Half a century in education ( teaching at the chalk face) and suddenly some trained in another (allied health profession) knows more about teaching than I.. really??!

04/07/2023

"When children are struggling with literacy in Year 3 (and often unfortunately beyond), what changes their trajectories is not more time spent playing, but time with tutors (if they are fortunate to be able to access them), who unlock for them the mysteries of how their writing system works"
As always... sound words from Prof Pamela Snow. For those parents and educators who are still grappling with the importance of explicit teaching vs play based/immersion when learning to read, write and spell, Prof Pamela Snow's Blogspot read below is a must!

In a recent post on the AARE Blog, Edith Cowan University academic Dr Pauline Roberts raises a  number of points about the importance of play in the early years of school and strongly pushes back on the role of formal assessment, such as NAPLAN. In fact, she goes so far as to refer to NAPLAN as an ...

25/06/2023

Thank you Five from Five! Some really useful and interesting links to follow

Text or passage reading fluency is generally defined as having three components: accuracy, rate, and prosody (or expression). Children have poor text reading fluency if they read many words of a passage incorrectly, if they read text slowly and with obvious effort, or if they read in a stilted or robotic way.

The three components of fluency, and the interactions between them, have been studied in detail. It is useful to understand these concepts in order get a better sense of how they inform teaching practice, especially for children whose fluency is affected by difficulties with one or more of them.

Find out about these three components at
https://fivefromfive.com.au/fluency/components-of-fluency/

25/04/2023

Thanks for this very explicit Infograph

The science of reading is a vast, multidisciplinary body of evidence that provides conclusive, empirically supported research that identifies how we learn to read. We read and hear alot about the science of reading and many people think this just means phonics instruction.
The Science of Reading is much more than just phonics, in fact phonics is only one component.
In 2000, the U.S National Reading Panel released a report that identified 5 essential components or ‘pillars’ that every child needs to be taught to become literate.
These include:
1. Phonemic Awareness
2. Phonics
3. Vocabulary
4. Fluency
5. Comprehension
The definitions in the image I’ve posted are very basic explanations used by Dr Kymyona Burk in the movie “The Right to Read”, to help explain simply what each component means.
For another easy to follow explanation, you can check out “The Science of Reading” by Nessy here: 👇👇
https://www.nessy.com/en-gb/dyslexia-explained/how-to-help-dyslexia/what-is-the-science-of-reading
Or for a more detailed explanation, check out Reading Rockets here: 👇👇
https://www.readingrockets.org/article/english-language-learners-and-five-essential-components-reading-instruction
You can even download a free bookmark of the 5 components at Texthelp here: 👇
https://www.texthelp.com/resources/blog/5-pillars-of-reading-instruction/
And if you get the chance, do NOT miss The Right to Read Film – you can check out screening locations here: 👇👇
https://www.therighttoreadfilm.org/

09/04/2023

Visit the inspiring ~ www.Daveswordsofwisdom.com

Find more at www.wisdomtoinspirethesoul.com

07/04/2023

Pam Snow hits the mark with another excellent piece. Too many parents are blamed for their child’s reading failure and she’s calling time on parent-blame and children’s reading success.

https://pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2023/04/calling-time-on-parent-blame-and.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR0bcS7Di89KBXlyq74k4zhSUo5xNeuvCjLajtAKhOBC_7x2V2r_eBuFTgo

18/02/2023

12/02/2023

When kids feel safe, confident & judgement free - they are in a good place to learn.

03/01/2023

Ensuring our children get what they need to become efficient readers - certainly worth taking time to read

Why spelling instruction
should be hot in 2022/2023.
Current research supports explicit spelling instruction for better readers. By J.Richard Gentry.

https://81f204ea-e308-4e88-a85f-89bfd8fb226b.usrfiles.com/ugd/81f204_7bdb731d27704fd887244610feaf6b91.pdf

05/05/2022

Thank you Georgie Ryan

And because so many people have asked, here is my favourite infographic showing how dysgraphia affects so much more than just writing.

Author/Artist: unknown

15/03/2022

Learning to read is more than the ability to read words on a page
The skill translates far beyond - reading to comprehend snd reading to learn.

Fluency is an essential component of early reading instruction because of its strong relationship with reading comprehension.