A Can adults read? An ultimate test of comprehension- adultread.htm
Alphabet# (v02abc1.htm) - an ABC chart
B - Books worth reading - and add your own
Babl card game for learning Latin and Greek roots and how to work out the meaning of long words
C - Classroom barriers to literacy: /litbar.html
Comprehension in reading - an ultimate test - adultread.htm
Reading Cribs to help learners read stories, using a Dictionary Key
Colored Picture Checklist - /v22colorchecklist.htm "What it helps to know" -
Black-and-white Checklist for easy fotocopying.
Color-coding vowels
A commercial product - Your Life in Comics, for guys to write and draw in the comics frames with all sorts of situations.
D - Spelling guides in children's dictionaries, literacy DVD
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
Experiment ! - A trial of help in the literacy crisis- Petition to the public, Press and spellcheckers – See if u agree with it! Tell yr frends. http://www.change.org/petitions/spellcheckers-the-press-the-public-trial cutting-out-useless-letters-from-words
F- Free help for reading and spelling - News about online website ozreadandspell and DVD
I - International Literacy Day - September 8. See these ozideas pages on literacy,Reading Cribs, education and spelling
L - Learning styles of older failing learners: /lernstyl.htm
Literacy Innovations - litinovations.html
- Lessons - a set of 21 simple lessons. See index below
- Lessons - a new way to learn to read, from a dictionary pronunciation guide, to spelling with a reason for every spellings, to reading with only 18 exeptions from one-to-one spelling where choices can be made, to
if you wish, present spelling.
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
PetitioO
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
-Preschool, Preparing to read through play
-Plastic letters as an early literacy aid
R - Reading Cribs to help learners read stories, using the dictionary key
S - Shakespeare in Quotations - Macbeth
More about Spelling and how it could be improved. Recent Developments in Spelling and A Dictionary Pronunciation Guide and starter for beginner
Self-help aid for literacy - www.ozreadandspell.com.au
English Today, 107, vol 27, No 3. Sept 2011, pp 62-67, 'Recent developments which affect spelling. On the possibility of removing the unnecessary difficulties in English spelling, while leaving the basic appearance of English print intact.'
Surplus-Cut spelling - and also see http://www.change.org/petitions/spellcheckers-the-press-the-public-trial-cutting-out-useless-letters-from-words
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.
Video - take-home video for adult literacy - rationale, research, content International Review of Education.
Video - half-hour cartoon literacy video
Video - make your own self-help literacy video
Vowel spellings and color-coding
W - Writing systems of the world and their reforms
