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How to write a word chain

Posted on 10th February 202230th May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Dyslexia, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, Synthetic Phonics and tagged article, beginner readers, blending, catch-up readers, phonemic awareness, phonemic awareness activities, phonemic manipulation, phonics resources, reading activities, segmenting, sound swap, switch it, word chainsLeave a Comment

Word chains are really important for all children learning to read, especially those who find reading hard. Some programmes call this activity ‘Sound swap’ (Sounds-Write) or ‘Switch it’ (Reading Simplified). Why word chains are a useful teaching tool Word chains offer children practice of the underlying skills of reading: blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation (adding, […]

How to practice reading ‘tap’ and ‘tape’

Posted on 2nd July 201911th June 2024 in Dyslexia, Games, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, Reading Resources, Synthetic Phonics and tagged #learning to read, article, beginner readers, game for a-e, game for magic e, magic e, Phonics, reading activities, reading games, split digraphs, teaching a-e, vowel + eLeave a Comment

Many students struggle with split vowel spellings a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. These spellings are also known as ‘split digraphs’, ‘magic e’ and ‘vowel + e’. These students need extra explicit instruction and practice reading words with these split spellings. It is important to take the time to embed this learning as split spellings are […]