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Consonant blends – speaking and spelling

Posted on 12th October 20223rd June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties and tagged adjacent consonants, article, beginner readers, blending activities, blending difficulties, how to teach blending, multisensory activities, segmenting activities, speech, synthetic phonicsLeave a Comment

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Synthetic Phonics programmes now talk of ‘consonant blends’ or ‘adjacent consonants’, but what are they? Why is it that the letters ‘bl’ in the word ‘black’ are adjacent consonants while ‘ck’ are not? Speech and language therapist, Hema Desai explains the difference and suggests fun, multisensory activities to embed learning. As a speech and language […]

How to… teach blending

Posted on 21st May 20216th June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics and tagged add and blend, article, beginner readers, blending difficulties, blending sounds into words, cumulative blending, decode and blend, how to teach blending, how to teach phonics, how to teach reading, reading and working memory, stretch and blend, teach blending, what is blending?, working memoryLeave a Comment

In our ‘how to…’ series we are going to delve into all things phonics instruction and give you our expert advice on developing confident readers. *** In her podcast, Evidence Based Education, Dr Tracy Alloway explains working memory as ‘your ‘active’ memory. The memory you use to work with information.’ She describes working memory as […]