As soon as you finish making something, you think of ways to improve it. Always. Sigh. Affixit game 20 was meant to focus on building words like music-musician, magic-magician, and Egypt-Egyptian, but there weren’t enough suitable words, so -al/-ial as in centre-central, deny-denial, finance-financial became the focus. While making the label for our Affixit games […]
Hooray, you can now download and print Game 1 of our new Affixit word-building games for $0. Players build and spell words by adding suffixes -s, -ed or -ing to base words, doubling final consonants when necessary (e.g. stop-stopped), and knowing when not to double (e.g. mend-mending, back-backs). Base words are spelt in basic/initial code […]
If you’re a reader of Education HQ and expect it to clearly differentiate between fact and opinion, you might have been surprised by its 14 July 2025 article “‘It changed my life’: all students should be screened for Irlen Syndrome, teacher says’“. The article says Irlen Syndrome is “a disorder that manifests as a cluster […]
Today I spent over an hour reading and summarising ten reports and letters about a complex new client, to prepare for our first session. The longest report was 15 pages, but some professional reports contain 50 or more pages. Gah. Paediatricians’ reports are usually only one or two pages, while the really long reports tend […]
Sadly, I was too busy to attend the recent international Sounds-Write Phonics Interventions Symposium while it was live and free online. Happily, it was all recorded. A great thing about recordings is that you can watch them at high speed, slowing down and rewinding the best bits, and learn a lot quickly. It’s school holidays […]
Do you know a learner who is struggling to read polysyllable words? Try our new, download-and-print card games, called Syl-lab-it. A free game, with the easiest words, is here, and the full set is here. Elle Holloway, Spelfabet’s expert at turning work into fun, explains the game in this 6 minute video: 2-4 syllable words […]
The download-and-print Spelfabet moveable alphabet and affixes now has embedded picture mnemonic tiles, and is useful for showing learners how to take words apart into sounds (phonemes), spelling patterns (graphemes) and meaningful parts (morphemes), manipulate their parts, and learn how all these parts are related. This is the alphabet I use in my presentation for […]
The Spelfabet shop has affordable, downloadable spelling teaching resources.
