What this lesson will show you is the irregularity within modern English is just a product of its history. The English language has 1300 years of history to be more specific. Whereas many languages go through a reform and washout the historical changes – which means to standardise the spelling, the English language has not. In many cases, the attempts to standardise the spellings have made them more difficult as we shall see later in this section. So, without any spelling reform, the irregularity we think we see is just history itself. Is the language irregular and weird, or is it rich in-depth and has its own story to tell? You decide.

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If you’re wondering why you need to start this course with a second history lesson, you’re probably not alone.  Many people who take this course will feel the same. However, there is something important to discuss […]

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I think all people who work with children who find spelling hard, would struggle to find the benefits of being a child in primary school who is getting left behind in their literacy. The same would […]

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Whilst this course is not going to go in depth about dyslexia as a stand-alone subject, we do need to recap what dyslexia is and how it affects learners so we can have the empathy and […]

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Whilst dyslexia is a spectrum, meaning some people have worse symptoms than others and there are a lot of individual differences in how it affects people, the one thing that all people with dyslexia have in […]

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This chapter will cover various spelling techniques that are dyslexia friendly. There is an absence of phonic learning in this lesson, not because the author does not agree with phonics but because that is a stand-alone […]

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Now you have some idea of the various techniques that help struggling learners. How do you know which technique to use and when? Moreover, how do you know if a technique is working? There are two […]

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This is your final assessment. You will need to get 80% or more of the questions correct to pass the course and gain your certificate. If you don’t get 80% the first time, don’t worry, you […]

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