By Diana Rigg

19/07/2021

How Phonic Sound Walls Belong in PLD’s SSP Program Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP) is at the heart of PLD’s offering.  Every resource we create is intended to scaffold, support, and […]

By Diana Rigg

08/09/2020

Five From Five, AUSPELD and Learning Difficulties Australia have collaborated to create an evidence-based framework for schools which aims to dramatically reduce the number of children who finish primary school […]

By Diana Rigg

09/06/2020

Recently, we released our brand new Phonic & Sight Word Sequence Charts. Rather than focusing on individual HFW lists, we amalgamated the words that occurred in a range of lists […]

By Diana Rigg

14/05/2020

PLD’s unique approach scaffolds children to learn more high-frequency words with less effort by teaching the right words at the right time and in the right way. Following an extensive literature […]

By Diana Rigg

30/04/2020

We anticipate at PLD that all schools will have reduced attendance at the beginning and possibly throughout Term 2. As each week in the school year is precious, the following […]

By Diana Rigg

16/04/2020

What are Elkonin Boxes: Elkonin boxes or sound boxes are a teaching tool used to represent each sound or phoneme contained in a word (Elkonin, 1963). A series of connected […]

By Diana Rigg

12/03/2020

AUSPELD is a national body comprised of representatives from various state SPELD associations and a recognised Global Partner of the International Dyslexia Association. Each SPELD organisation is extremely busy catering […]

By Diana Rigg

21/02/2020

Students often write words correctly in spelling tests but struggle when applying their new knowledge to written work. Why? As a general rule, when transferring spelling into writing, students require […]

By Diana Rigg

21/02/2020

PLD’s decodable readers align with PLD’s Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP) sequence. The type of words, word count, and amount of HFWs gradually become more complex as more phonic concepts are […]