Full Description
Is your knowledge and understanding of systematic synthetic phonics secure?
Do you understand the difference between graphemes and phonemes?
Is your phonics teaching both engaging and interactive?
Systematic synthetic phonics is central to the teaching of early reading and is a key element in Ofsted inspections. For your pupils, learning about phonics represents an integral part of their journey to becoming successful readers and writers. This book offers you tried and tested ideas for developing an understanding of phonics and the development of effective pedagogy. Designed to be read over a week, it is divided into seven concise chapters detailing clear strategies, examining the strategy in action and summarising the relevant underpinning theory.
Contents
Introduction Day 1: Grapheme-phoneme correspondence Day 2: Blending and segmenting, decoding and encoding Day 3: Digraphs: vowel digraphs, consonant digraphs, split digraphs, long vowel digraphs. Day 4: Teaching "tricky" or common exception words Day 5: Systematic teaching: planning lessons and series of lessons Day 6: Phonics and spelling Day 7: Phonics at KS2 Further reading
