Articles tagged with: a-e

The importance of alternative spellings

Posted on 24th April 201522nd May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged a-e, ai, alternative spellings, article, ay, beginner, beginner readers, ea, spellings of ae, spellings of ee1 Comment

One of the most difficult aspects of the English Alphabetic Code is that a sound in a word (phoneme) can be spelled in different ways. In ‘transparent’ alphabetic codes, a sound is consistently spelled the same way. Children learning to read English soon discover that many vowels and consonants can be spelled in different ways. […]

Do we really need more phonic games?

Posted on 4th February 201416th September 2016 in Games, Our News and tagged a-e, ai, ay, ea, ee, games for Letters and sounds, igh, Letters and sounds phase 3, phoneme games, phonic games, reading games, vowel digraphs, vowel spellings1 Comment

Phonic Books Ltd has collaborated with TTS to create 5 new packs of reading games. But who needs more phonic games? Educational catalogues are packed with phonic games! What is different about these new games?