Articles tagged with: catch-up

PHONIC BOOKS COMPETITION!!!

Posted on 10th October 201216th September 2016 in Events and Exhibitions and tagged beginner, books for dyslexics, catch-up, decodable books, Phonic Books, struggling readers, synthetic phonics reading booksLeave a Comment

As we have just launched our new Phonic Books Ltd Facebook page, we are annoucing our first Phonic Books Competition! The 100th, 150th, 200th and 250th person to ‘Like’ our new Phonic Books Ltd page will win any set of books from our Dandelion Books range or from our catch-up range, including the brand new Magic Belt […]

Should Systematic Synthetic Phonics be denied to our weakest readers?

Posted on 4th October 201216th September 2016 in Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics and tagged catch-up, decodable books, ESPO match-funding catalogue, match-funding phonics catalogue, PhonicsLeave a Comment

The DfE has carefully approved and selected phonics programmes and resources for mainstream classrooms and ‘catch-up’ pupils according to strict synthetic phonics criteria. These are featured in the DfE Phonics Match-Funding catalogue. This follows the Jim Rose report that concludes that Systematic Synthetic Phonics is the best method of teaching children to read. Next we hear that the DfE has […]