In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a […]
Read More In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** A consonant digraph is a two-letter spelling that represents a […]
Read More In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** A digraph is a two-letter spelling for a sound of […]
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This is a guest blog written by Emily Hanson, former class teacher and freelance education copywriter. She holds a PGCE and M.Ed from the University of Cambridge, and has taught across the primary age range. Her subject specialism is literature, language and phonics. Outside of the classroom, Emily has also worked for a youth charity, […]
Read More In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** The Alphabetic Code is the framework that shows how the […]
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When we teach reading with phonics, we need to include two important elements: Introduction of the alphabetic code in small steps (these are the letter/sounds correspondences) starting with simple letter/sound correspondences and progressing to more complex. Teaching children the phonemic awareness skills that underlie reading and spelling, so that they can use the phonic knowledge […]
Read More In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** It may seem obvious to fluent readers, but beginner readers […]
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There is a difference between ‘sounding out’ and ‘blending’. Sounding out a word entails recognising the letter/sound correspondences, e.g. seeing the letters “p” and being able to say the sound /p/. Children will need to remember the letter shape and distinguish it from similar looking letters, e.g., p/q; b/d/; m/w/; f/t etc. They also need […]
Read More In our ‘what is…’ series we’re taking things back to basics! From phonics to decoding, blending and more, we’re going to break things down and give you our expert advice on each area, to help answer any questions you may have around teaching reading. *** When fluent readers read, the words fly off the page. […]
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Yes, they do. Sounding out words is very taxing on a beginner reader’s working memory. If we think about it – children need to recognise the shape of the letter, attach a sound to it, hold that sound in their heads, do the same for the next letters in the word, blend the sounds into […]
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