Articles tagged with: how to teach phonics - Phonic Books

‘Chest of sounds’ – a useful visual metaphor for understanding the Alphabetic Code

Posted on 16th May 20236th June 2024 in Alphabetic Code and tagged alphabetic code, article, beginner readers, chest of sounds, how to teach phonics, Phonics, sounds, sounds of the alphabetic code1 Comment

Tami Reis-Frankfort, one of the founders of Phonic Books, has been thinking of how to organise a complex Alphabetic Code. *** The English Alphabetic Code is complex. How can we help children learn a code that has 176+ spellings for 44 sounds that uses only 26 letters of the alphabet? If we understand the Alphabetic […]

Why word-building is the number one lesson we should be teaching

Posted on 7th September 20223rd June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, structured literacy, Synthetic Phonics, systematic phonics and tagged #learning to read, article, beginner readers, explain word building, how to teach phonics, how to teach reading to a dyslexic pupil, learning to spell, phonics activities, segmenting and blending, what is word building?, word-buildingLeave a Comment

Of all the strategies used for teaching reading, I believe that word-building is the most powerful. Why is that? Word-building incorporates two fundamental skills in learning to read: as children build a word, they learn to segment and blend. When we ask children to build a word, e.g., ‘map’ they need to segment the phonemes […]

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 […]