How to teach reading and spelling with the Smart Chute

It is really important to teach reading and spelling together so that children can see that reading is decoding letters into sounds and spelling is encoding sounds into letters. In short, they are reverse activities. This way children learn how the English language alphabetic code actually works. It also means that from the beginning, children […]

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Decodable books – why they are important

 What are decodable books? For people who can read – all books are decodable. For children who are learning to read – decodable books are controlled texts that they can decode at each level as they acquire literacy (by sounding out the letters on the page and blending them into words).  Decodable books are reading exercises […]

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Independent review of new ‘Dandelion Readers’ and ‘Rescue’ series

Thank you Melinda Crean, of Top Notch Teaching website, for reviewing the ‘Rescue’ series and Dandelion Readers Level 4, ‘Toad and Newt’. To see the review click here and scroll down: http://topnotchteaching.com/reviews/reading-spelling-ideas/

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Special Needs Information Press reviews Rescue Series

Rescue Series – from Phonic Books Stories by Clair Baker Illustrations by Drew Wilson This is another well designed and structure reading series produce by Phonic Books. The engaging storylines and accompanying illustrations will appeal to the readers and will hopefully encourage all who read them to continue to develop their reading skills.

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Learning to read with Sounds-Write and Dandelion Readers

See lovely video clip of 4-year-old learning to read with his Mum who is teaching him to read with the Sounds-Write Reading and Spelling programme. He is reading the extension activity at the end of a Dandelion Reader decodable book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB5ZRtfNKGo&feature=youtu.beBest

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Watch child learning to read with interactive iBook

Here is a video clip of M. (4 yrs) learning to read with Dandelion Launchers iBook. Note how she learns to sound out the words from the iBook and then begins to sound out words independently. This resource can help parents, TAs and SEN pupils with correct pronunciation. It also demonstrates grapheme/phoneme correspondences clearly. It […]

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