Synthetic Phonics

  Conclusions These studies with Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children demonstrate that teaching with a government approved systematic synthetic phonics programme can be an excellent opportunity to drive up literacy standards. There is no evidence to indicate that such phonics teaching is a “straightjacket” or that it will “switch off” children from a […]

“From September 2014 the National Curriculum requires children in primary schools throughout England to be taught to read using systematic synthetic phonics.  This is the first time that the National Curriculum has so explicitly and definitively established phonics as the required approach to teach reading.  This book explains clearly why this change is so important […]

Read here Debbie Hepplewhite’s robust reply to a shoddy article by Richard Garner of the Independent: http://phonicsinternational.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1528#1528 And Richard, if you would like to see how Synthetic Phonics helps dyslexic children to read, please come to the Bloomfield Learning Centre to observe my lessons.  All our pupils learn to read.  Mostly they have not been […]

Some teachers claim that teaching children to read non words (nonsense words), as they appear in the Y1 phonics check, is a waste of time. But, actually, getting children comfortable with reading non words is really useful.  When they decode multi-syllabic words they often need to read syllables that initially don’t make sense. They need to […]