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What’s in a name?

Posted on 25th April 20234th June 2024 in Learning to Read, structured literacy and tagged alphabetic code, article, beginner readers, blending, blending letter sounds, decoding, how to teach spelling, learning to spell, phonic spelling, Phonics, spelling names, structured literacyLeave a Comment

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If asked, many early years and special school teachers would probably say that one of the first things children should learn is to recognise, and later write, their name. One single word, yet many children seem to find this difficult and it can take a surprisingly long time to achieve. The main reason for this […]

Why the ‘A, B, C’ song is not helpful to beginner readers

Posted on 27th March 201131st May 2024 in Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics and tagged A B C song, alphabet, article, automatic recall of letter sounds, beginner readers, blending, blending letter sounds, learning alphabetic order, letter names, letter names and letter sounds, letter sounds, letters of the alphabet, Phonics, sounds of the alphabet, synthetic phonics reading books1 Comment

Many young children learn to sing the ‘A, B, C’ song in nursery or at home. This song teaches them the names and the order of the letters of the alphabet. It’s a great way to store the alphabetic order of letters in our long-term memories. I still use the alphabet song when using a […]