Articles tagged with: SEND

Teaching the rope

Posted on 24th January 20236th June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Disadvantaged Pupils, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, SEN, Synthetic Phonics and tagged alphabetic code, article, DfE validation, English curriculum, how to teach reading, Phonics, Reading Fluency, reading rope, research, science of reading, SEND, teach SEND children to readLeave a Comment

Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy (pp. 97-110). New York: Guilford Press. The Reading Rope was developed by Dr. Hollis Scarborough to provide a framework for understanding the different skills that are necessary […]

Moon Dogs Extras – Independent Review

Posted on 1st July 20223rd June 2024 in Decodable Books, Language and Communication Difficulties, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties and tagged activity book, age-neutral books, article, decodable books for older readers, decodable books for SEN children, older readers, phonics activities, phonics games, reading intervention, reading with SEN pupils, SENDLeave a Comment

Ann Sullivan of Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs is an experienced SEND teacher, who has created her own phonics programme specifically for SEND children. This is what she has to say about our latest set of Books: Moon Dogs Extras for Catch-Up Readers. If there is one question I am asked more than […]

Can SEND children learn to read with phonics?

Posted on 15th June 20224th June 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Language and Communication Difficulties, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties and tagged article, books for SEND pupils, decodable books, decodable books for older readers, older readers, Phonic Books, SEND, SEND pupils, Special Educational Needs books, teach SEND children to read, teaching phonicsLeave a Comment

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Here at Phonic Books we have been publishing decodable books for beginner and catch-up readers for seventeen years. During those years we attended many conferences and education shows. When discussing whether our books were suited to students with SEND, we always deferred to the teachers working in SEND settings. While we were confident teaching dyslexic […]