Can Synthetic Phonics be the Key to Teaching children How to Read?
– Phonics is not new, but it went out of favor sometime ago. Now it is back, recommended highly by Sir Jim Rose in his review of early reading.The UK Government even has its own program, Letters and Sounds, which many UK schools follow (often because they feel obliged, and some say are pressurised, into doing so). However, British schools are actually free to choose to follow any synthetics phonics program they choose to. Full Story ———————— Site Simplifies Text for Students with Disabilities – A new national online database is making it easier and quicker for college students with print-related disabilities, including blindness or dyslexia, to obtain the alternative textbooks they need for their academic courses. The AccessText Network contains more than 300,000 textbook and novel titles available in alternative formats. To date, more than 650 colleges and universities have enrolled. Full Story Intel Reader Transforms Printed Text to Spoken Word ———————–
