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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”

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”