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Top tips for teaching phonics

Posted on 20th September 20181st June 2024 in Learning to Read, Synthetic Phonics and tagged article, beginner readers, blending, Phonic Books, reluctant readers, spelling, struggling readers, synthetic phonics, teaching a struggling reader, teaching approaches, word-buildingLeave a Comment

Teach step-by-step You don’t need to teach the whole alphabet to get reading going. Start with just a few letters, and get children to build words from them. Phonic Books starts with ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘t’, ‘i’ and ‘m’. Work with word-building Word-building is the best way to teach reading and spelling. Write letters on cards […]

Struggling reader – what we did next

Posted on 2nd May 201316th September 2016 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Reading Difficulties and tagged catch-up literacy, catch-up reading, how to teach a struggling reader to read, how to teach reading, struggling reader, teaching a struggling reader, teaching dsylexic pupils to read, teaching older pupils to read, teaching reading to a dyslexic childLeave a Comment

Having reported that one of my struggling reader pupils had suddenly turned a corner and begun to take on alternative spellings, I thought it might be fun to report on my weekly lessons with him and plot his progress. So, today my student arrived with his scooter but without his folder – third week in a […]