Parents It’s not to late to celebrate the Science of Reading this September, Nessy.com have been offering lots of free educational resources, including a free phonics app every week throughout September. Go to https://www.nessy.com/en-us/the-science-of-reading/science-of-reading-september for more details. There are also lots of free educational resources on their site throughout the year. Last day for thisContinue reading “21.9.22 Nessy Offers and Spelling tips”
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20.5.22 Graphemes, Phonemes, Self Esteem and Training Sessions
Phonemes and Graphemes Do you know the difference? I know I specialise in dyslexia, but what is helpful for the dyslexic learner is beneficial to ALL learners. A lot of the explicit teaching used in dyslexic programmes is needed in everyday reading and spelling programmes. There are, however, a lot of misunderstandings amongst children andContinue reading “20.5.22 Graphemes, Phonemes, Self Esteem and Training Sessions”
2.5.22 Phonics, Training and Zooms
I hope you all had a lovely Easter. These months are rushing past and I can’t believe it is May already. This week, I wanted to chat about phonics, training (both for the student and the professionals), touch typing and some zoom visits from Puffin authors. It is useful to explain to individuals when toContinue reading “2.5.22 Phonics, Training and Zooms”
31.3.22 Phonics Queen
The Phonics Queen’s latest video on Youtube has been released today and she is happy for it to be shown far and wide! This video, which is entitled ‘Phonics is NOT just an EYs and KS1 thing’ , explains that phonics does not stop being taught after KS1. I share Natasha’s passion of phonics (asContinue reading “31.3.22 Phonics Queen”
14.3.22 Phonological awareness
I usually compare the skills of phonological awareness with laying the foundations of a house, because the art of learning to read and write is built on these important listening skills. The introduction to phonological awareness is usually classed as ‘Phase one’ in phonics development and should begin to be taught at nursery/preschool age soContinue reading “14.3.22 Phonological awareness”
World Book Day- March 2022
Here we are, ready (or may be not!) for World Book Day this week in the UK. It is often tradition for school children to dress up as their favourite book character and over 100 countries participate in World Book Day, when children of all ages come together to share the joy of reading forContinue reading “World Book Day- March 2022”
Training and Tricky Spellings 6.2.22
Spelling Tricky Words (common exception words) Tricky words (common exception words) need to be sounded out as much as possible to read and spell using known grapheme/phoneme correspondence. However, they all have some ‘tricky’, irregular part which needs to be learned off by heart. The words to, too and two all sound the same andContinue reading “Training and Tricky Spellings 6.2.22”
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