Design of the BLENDING Program

This posting looks at our free BLENDING program; what it teaches, how it works, who it is for, and where it came from.  If you just want to get started, then here is a 9-minute quick-start video.  Click here for the sign-in screen, which you can bookmark for quick access

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Community Reading Project Newsletter #1

Newsletter #1.    25 October, 2016 OUR FIRST NEWSLETTER !! There are lots of new and exciting things going on at the Community Reading Project.  And one of them is this newsletter.  If you are on our mailing list, then we have already met, but let us re-introduce ourselves. We

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Sight-Recognition Words

“Readers read familiar words by accessing them in memory, called sight word reading. With practice, all words come to be read automatically by sight, which is the most efficient, unobtrusive way to read words in text.”  Ehri (2005)   Do not confuse ‘sight-recognition’ words with ‘sight-words’ (the irregular words that

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